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    Observatorio de Igualdad de Genero en America Latina y el Caribe

    Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
    Women’s autonomy in the private and public spheres is fundamental to ensure they can exercise their human rights. ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean – CEPAL in Spanish) is managing a programme monitoring how countries in the region fare to achieve gender equality.
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    National mechanisms for gender equality and empowerment of women in Latin America and the Caribbean region

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
    In the diverse region of Latin America and the Caribbean, there can be no fixed model on how national mechanisms for gender equality should work. The creation of these mechanisms in the region was a relatively late and unequal phenomenon, emerging after a period of antidemocratic and authoritarian governments, internal strife and violent political struggles.
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    Deliver the dream: time to close the gap between continental promises and the reality of African people

    Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2010
    This 2010 State of the Union Africa report assesses the continental performance of Member States against key governance, economic, social, civil and political policy standards and rights instruments over the period 2004-2009. It reviews ten country reports, utilising ten African Union (AU) legal instruments and four policy frameworks.
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    Combined Second and Third Periodic CEDAW Report - Nepal

    2003
    What progress has been made towards eliminating discrimination against women in Nepal since the first CEDAW Country Report was produced in 1997? This 2003 combined second and third CEDAW Country Report for Nepal outlines improvements made since the first Report, as well as continuing obstacles.
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    The Treaty of Lisbon from a Gender Perspective: Changes and Challenges

    2008
    The Treaty of Lisbon is an agreement signed in 2007 that aims to reform and modify European Union institutions and their ways of working so that they are better equipped to face today's challenges. This briefing paper was written to guide the Women in Development Europe (WIDE) in shaping their gender advocacy strategy around the Treaty.
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    Gender and Governance: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This Supporting Resources Collection - part of the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Governance - showcases existing work on gender and governance. It presents summaries of a mix of conceptual and research papers, policy briefings, advocacy documents, case study material, and practical tools from diverse regions and disciplines.
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    Gender and Governance: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    With their focus on democracy, transparency, accountability, inclusive citizenship and participatory processes there is huge potential in the ideas and practices of governance to catalyse real change in terms of gender equality. However, this potential remains largely untapped.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 21: Gender and Governance

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Governance processes - with their emphasis on principles of accountability, transparency, responsiveness and inclusiveness - should be a means to social transformation. But despite this potential, they are failing to deliver on gender equality.
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    Gender and Governance Cutting Edge Pack

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Put simply, governance refers to decision-making by a range of interested people (or 'stakeholders') including those in formal positions of power and 'ordinary' citizens. These decisions have a huge impact on the ways in which women and men lead their lives, on the rules they are expected to abide by, and on the structures that determine where and how they work and live.
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    Urban Governance: Why Gender Matters

    Global Development Research Centre, 1996
    Women's views are rarely taken into account in urban planning processes. Yet women's needs and interests differ from men's in relation to services such as transport and health, and infrastructure. Policymakers and planners, therefore, need to take a more gender-sensitive approach so that women's needs and interests are addressed and women are included in these decision-making processes.

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