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  Participatory Research and Development in Natural Resource Management: Towards Social and Gender Equity

  2005

  Meaningful participatory research in agriculture and natural resource management can help communities, governments, donors and the diverse social actors to engender a process of transformative approaches whereby marginalised groups can become empowered, negotiate space to improve their well-being and livelihoods, and manage the resources they depend on in a sustainable way.
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  Women as Managers of the Public Space: a Participatory Experience in Gender and Water in El Hormiguero, Colombia

  Universidad del Valle, 2003

  The dynamics of participation that develop in water projects to defend the collective interest are deeply affected by unequal gender relations. In the case of El Hormiguero, a rural area of Santiago de Cali, Colombia, the approach to participation highlighted the importance of the role played by women in creating and building up public spaces.
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  Participatory Action Learning in Practice: Experience of a Rapid Participatory Review of ANANDI, India

  ANANDI Participatory Review, 2003

  How can a Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) help to empower women? ANANDI, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Gujarat, India, successfully used PALS to support women from poor and marginalised groups to identify, analyse and solve their own problems.
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  The Role of Women in Water Management and Conservation in Jordan

  Gender and Water Alliance, 2006

  To what extent are Jordanian women currently participating in water management and conservation projects? This document provides an overview of various natural resource management projects in which women have or have not had significant involvement, and discusses their successes and failures.
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  Nigeria: Using Gender Mainstreaming Processes to Help Protect Drinking Water Sources of the Obudu Plateau Communities in Northern Cross River State

  United Nations, 2005

  How can gender-sensitive approaches to natural resource management be implemented, particularly in contexts were women do not traditionally participate in such activities? In Nigeria, the construction of a tourist resort on the Obudu plateau led to deforestation and exacerbated pre-existing pressures on water resources and the environment.
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  Sudan Gender Profile

  United Nations Joint Assessment Mission, 2004

  This factsheet provides an overview of gender concerns and the status of women in Sudan.
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  Gender and Natural Disasters: Why We Should be Focusing on a Gender Perspective of the Tsunami Disaster

  2005

  Jones argues that, in the aftermath of such catastrophes as the tsunami, disaster management plans and humanitarian assistance must be linked with gender dynamics in order to "precipitate a greater understanding of what is needed to ensure that women's unique circumstances during natural disasters are not only recognized, but acted upon." That is, while the physical aspects of natural disasters ar
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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  International Gender and Trade Network: WTO Fifth Ministerial Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, September 10-14th, 2003 (Position Papers on Four WTO Issues)

  2003

  The IGTN Advocacy Document for the 5th WTO Ministerial Meeting that was held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003 focuses on these four issues and identifies critical advocacy positions for each of them.

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