Planning and policy
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- Gender and natural resource management: critical feminist perspectives
- ( B., P. Resurreccion;R. Elmhirst / International Development Research Centre , 2008)
- This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often ...
How has Bangladesh achieved gender and social transformation?
- ( M. B. Das / World Bank Publications , 2008)
- This paper analyses the recent gender and social transformation in Bangladesh. Primarily aimed at the Bangladesh government and civil society, the report presents a narrative of social transformation ...
- Is gender mainstreaming being sufficiently implemented in Afghanistan?
- ( A. Wordsworth / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit , 2008)
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This paper discusses gender mainstreaming in the context of Afghanistan’s national policy. It analyses progress to date, discusses how gender mechanisms such as gender units, and working grou...
- The Paris Declaration and gender: the need to strengthen women’s rights in aid effectiveness
- ( C. Alemany;N. Craviotto;F. Hopenhaym / Canadian Council for International Co-operation , 2008)
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This paper analyses the implications for the promotion of women’s rights and gender equality in respect of the Paris Declaration (PD). It analyses the Five Principles of the Paris Declaration...
- How can gender indicators best be used at policy, project and programme levels?
- ( U. Murray / International Training Centre, International Labour Organisation , 2007)
- Briefing note aimed at those interested in the development and use of gender indicators at the policy, programme and project level. The authors argue that both quantitative and qualitative indica...
- A progress report on gender equality in Vietnam
- ( World Bank Publications , 2006)
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Vietnam has one of the highest rates of economic participation of women in the world as well as the highest participation of women in parliament in the Asia Pacific Region; however, while progress ...
- Building gender equality into the aid effectiveness agenda
- ( United Nations Development Fund for Women , 2006)
- In line with the increasing emphasis on aid effectiveness, including promoting new partnerships for channeling aid, this paper reports on the extent to which gender equality is and should be part of t...
- Scaling up gender mainstreaming in the World Bank
- ( World Bank , 2006)
- This plan commits the World Bank to intensify and scale up gender mainstreaming in the economic sector over four years, in partnership with client countries, donors and other development agencies. Apa...
- Addressing gender issues as a way to boost economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa
- ( M. Blackden; C. Canagarajah; S. Klasen; D. Lawson / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER) , 2006)
- This study suggests that gender inequality acts as a significant constraint to growth in sub-Saharan Africa, and that removing gender-based barriers to growth will make a substantial contribution to r...
- How has the Dutch government fared in implementing Beijing platform for Action?
- ( W. van der Tol; W. Koekebakker / Hivos , 2005)
- This paper critically looks at efforts by the Netherlands to implement the actions and objectives of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). The paper examines both the Dutch national and internation...






