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    Gender equality: a governance matter

    UN Women, 2013
    Does gender inequality constitute a governance failure? This policy brief describes how it is a governance failure when governments are unable or unwilling to translate gender equality commitments into reality.
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    Integrating gender-based violence: the post-2015 agenda

    The Irish Consortium on Gender-based Violence, 2014
    Gender-based violence (GBV) is a manifestation of gender inequalities and a gross violation of the rights of women and girls to development, equality and peace. However, it was not included in the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework. Addressing GBV is central to achieving the specific MDG3 targets to promote gender equality and empower women.
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    The Post 2015 Development Agenda: What’s at Stake for the World’s Women? Perspectives from the Post-2015 Women’s Coalition

    2014
    This two-page document is essentially a call to action from the Women’s Coalition which emerged from the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign and coordinated efforts from women’s groups around the UN.
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    Getting at the roots: re-integrating human rights and gender equality in the post-2015 development agenda

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2014
    This paper aims to contribute to debates on addressing root causes of inequalities, including gender inequality, within the post-2015 development process. It examines shortfalls in past development policy and practice, and implications of that experience for the post‐2015 development agenda.
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    MenEngage Africa Post-2015 Call for Action

    MenEngage, 2014
    The MenEngage Global Alliance has developed a Call for Action that outlines its priority goals within the Post-2015 development agenda, as well as suggested indicators for inclusion in the measurement of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). MenEngage Africa has further developed a more Africa-specific version of this Call, which focuses on five goals:
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    New actors, new money, new conversations: a mapping of recent initiatives for women and girls

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    Over the past several years, investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’ has become a favored strategy in development and philanthropy. This has precipitated a host of campaigns and initiatives, including new private-sector involvement, dedicated to supporting women and girls.
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    Women moving mountains: collective impact of the Dutch MDG3 fund

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    Through decades of collective and individual struggle, and determined, conscious design, the women’s rights movement has achieved unprecedented shifts in global perception to the notion of gender equality as a desirable goal.
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    Watering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    In the foreword to this report, AWID Executive Director Lydia Alpízar writes that she finds it, “truly surprising… that women’s rights organising and movements have been functioning, often with quite minimal financial support, even as their experience and effectiveness has increased.”
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    Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007
    In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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    2009-2010 FundHer Research Update. Brief 1: Trends in Bilateral and Multilateral Funding

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010
    This brief from AWID examines key trends in funding for gender equality and for civil society organizations from bilateral and multilateral agencies. They include the emergence of middle income donor countries and the aid effectiveness agenda which continues to play an important role in shaping bilateral and multilateral funding for development.

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