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  Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

  1998

  How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.
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  Steps for Effective Advocacy

  2003

  How can NGOs work to ensure that governments are implementing international law to protect women's rights? International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific have released this practical guide for NGOs who wish to use the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to hold their governments accountable for upholding and enforcing women's rights.
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  Gender and the Peacekeeping Military: A View from Bosnian Women's Organisations

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  What are the consequences for the work of women's NGOs in regions that host armed international peacekeepers? This chapter draws out observations and potential policy lessons from a study conducted with eight women's organisations located in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Sprska.
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  Contested Terrain: Oxfam, Gender, and the Aftermath of War

  Oxfam, 2001

  The topic of gender relations in the context of conflict covers highly sensitive terrain, not only within the war-torn society, but for intervening institutions. Like other international humanitarian agencies, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has faced difficult questions about whether its presence has sometimes done more harm than good.
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  Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.
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  Gender and Development: An Information Kit

  2000

  This information kit is a tool for gender and development specialists/ consultants working in Egypt. It was produced by the Gender and Development (GAD) Sub-Group, the body responsible for coordinating and sharing information between the UN, bilateral donor and Egyptian NGOs on gender initiatives in Egypt. The kit is broken down into five booklets.
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  The Integration of Women's Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership/L'integration des Droits des Femmes dans le Partenariat Euro-Mediterraneen

  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2003

  The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, launched in 1995, provides a framework for political, economic and social relations between the 12 partners of the southern Mediterranean and 15 European Union member states. This report explores the dynamics that hinder and promote women's rights within this partnership and in the Middle East and North Africa.
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  Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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  Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2003

  At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 governments pledged collective responsibility to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first being to halve world poverty by 2015, and the third to "Promote gender equality and empower women". This book provides evidence as to why promoting gender equality is essential for halving world poverty and realising all eight MDGs.
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  Mainstreaming the Needs of Women

  2002

  UNESCO's strategy to implement the Beijing Platform of Action is three-pronged. UNESCO aims to mainstream gender in all its work, to encourage the participation of women at all levels and fields of activity and thirdly to develop specific programmes and activities for the benefit of girls and women.

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