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  Gender and foreign assistance: the key to effective development (case studies by sector)

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2012

  Decades of research and experience have shown that there are profound differences between women and men in terms of their roles, resources, rights and responsibilities.
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  World Bank policies won’t get women justice or reduce poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  Inequality between men and women makes poverty worse. The World Bank’s poverty reduction strategy is unlikely to bring justice for women or reduce poverty because its economic policies contradict its social policies. It will only be able reduce poverty if it makes justice the priority of development not economic growth.
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  Aid modalities and the promotion of gender equality: aide-memoire

  The Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality, 2005

  In January 2006, the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) and the Network on Gender Equality of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held a joint meeting on the implications of the new aid modalities for the achievement of gender equality.
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  Roars and whispers: gender and poverty: promises vs. action

  Social Watch, 2005

  This annual Social Watch report monitors the progress of the MDGs and poverty reduction using a gendered approach. Divided into three areas it covers: themed discussions, monitoring progress, and national reports from over 50 countries.The study shows that the international community has largely failed to live up to the commitments it adopted in 2000.
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  Advance social watch report 2005: unkept promises

  Social Watch, 2005

  This paper reports on the findings of the national Social Watch coalitions in over 60 countries. The analysis of the available indicators coincide: the promises have remained largely unmet. Unless substantial changes are put in place soon, the MDG targets set for the year 2015 will not be achieved.
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  Ending poverty, promoting development: MADRE critiques the UN Millennium Development Goals

  MADRE, 2004

  This short web article highlights that MDGs create opportunities for advancing women's human rights, but only if stakeholders are able to participate effectively in the process of realising the goals.
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  The road not taken: international aid's choice of Copenhagen over Beijing

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2004

  This paper explores how the international aid system ‘thinks’ and therefore ‘knows’ and how that thinking shapes policy possibilities and ignores or trivialises potential alternatives.
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  Focus on human rights and gender justice: linking the Millennium Development Goals with the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the Beijing Platform for Action

  United Nations [UN] Non-Governmental Liaison Service, 2005

  This paper aims at showing the interlinkages between the CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA), and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and to emphasise that the MDGs must be developed further from the perspective of human rights, poverty eradication and the empowerment of women.The paper begins with a critical examination of CEDAW, the BFPA, and the MDGs.
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  PRSPs in Africa: parliaments and economic policy performance

  Parliamentary Centre, Canada, 2005

  Reporting on a review of four countries Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (Ghana, Niger, Tanzania and Malawi) this paper looks at the emerging strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of national PRSPs.
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  Achievements, gaps and challenges in linking the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals: report of the expert group meeting

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  This paper reports on a meeting of experts held in Baku, Azerbaijan 7 - 10 February 2005, to discuss the the implementation of both the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals. The paper's main focus is on how to link the two development documents, ensuring that progress on the objectives of each documents bears in mind the responsibilities incurred by the other.

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