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  Guidelines for a Gender Analysis: Human Rights with a Gender Perspective, Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., 2000

  Despite the failure of the Unite States (US) to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the City and County of San Francisco introduced a regulation to implement CEDAW at the local level. As part of the implementation, the City department must undertake a gender analysis of its budget allocations, service delivery, and employment practices.
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  A Change in Thinking: Gender Budgeting - Now's the Time

  Oxfam, 2007

  Gender budgeting can deliver better-value services for both women and men. This CD aims to help service delivery and regeneration initiatives in the UK to take gender into account. Only then will the poorest people in society benefit from the services on offer by the State.
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  Human Development Report 1995, Chapter 4: ?Valuing Women's Work?

  United Nations Development Programme, 1995

  Much of the work that women do remains unrecognised and unvalued, particularly in economic terms. This has an impact on the status of women in society, their opportunities in public life and the failure of development policy to address gender inequalities. This chapter of the Human Development Report reflects on the scale and nature of women's economic contributions globally.
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  Gender Audit of the EU Pre-Accession Funds 1999 - 2004 (Czech Republic and Slovakia)

  Feminismus, 2005

  How has the process of European Union (EU) accession affected funding for gender-focused and women's organisations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia?
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  Financing for Development: Aid Effectiveness and Gender-Responsive Budgets

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2007

  How can gender-responsive budgeting promote gender equality? What are the implications of the Monterrey consensus and Paris Declaration on financing for gender equality? This background paper was prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting in Uganda, June 2007.
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  Accountability for the Progress of Women: Women Demanding Action

  2000

  What mechanisms are there for holding government to account over international commitments to furthering gender equality? How can we measure if government policy commitments to gender equality are backed up by resource commitments?
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  Gender Equality, the New Aid Environment and Civil Society Organisations: a Research Project of the UK Gender and Development Network

  BRIDGE, 2008

  This report provides a response to a growing concern among Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) about the fast changing aid structures, such as direct budget support, pooled funding schemes for supporting civil society and other forms of donor alignment.
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  The Second Fundher Report: Financial Sustainability for Women's Movements Worldwide

  2007

  Where is the money for women's rights and how can we tap it? How could new resources be mobilised to build stronger feminist movements in order to advance women's rights worldwide? This report analyses the funding landscape for women's rights work, building on an earlier report published by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) in 2006.
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  The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The World Bank Track Record

  Gender Action, 2007

  To what extent does the World Bank meets its own promised objective to mainstream gender into its investments in Post-Conflict Reconstruction (PCR)? 97% of World Bank Post Conflict Fund (PCF) grants neglect to identify women as a target population in the title. Those focused on women constitute just under 4% of total funds.
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  Strengthening Women's Rights Organisations through Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Gender, Disability and Development Institute

  2006

  How can women's organisations include women with disabilities in all areas of their work? According to this article, inclusion is easy. Based on information gathered at Mobility International (MI) USA's Gender, Disability and Development Institute (GDDI), this paper recommends that organisations start with MIUSA's 'Checklist for Inclusion' which provides a simple self-assessment guide.

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