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  Learning from an interrupted evaluation: Lessons from the randomized impact evaluation “Female Empowerment and Occupational Impacts of Vocational Training in the day - to - day life of the oases in rural Mauritania”

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  Security is an important parameter to consider when thinking of, designing and implementing a randomized impact evaluation. Some very concrete problems can appear, which are not always easy to foresee beforehand. They can stem from “normal” criminality or from politically sensitive situations.
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  The centre-state fiscal relationship: a critique and recommendations

  Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2014

  The federal structure in India is a three-tiered constitutionally demarcated system that allocates funds according to specific functions as listed in three separate mandates. The Constitution of the country stipulates the role and responsibilities of the three tiers, differentiating according to the macro or micro nature of the issue.
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  Do men and women have different policy preferences, and if so, why? Determinants and implications of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ gender gaps in Africa

  Afrobarometer, 2015

  Gender quotas to increase women’s representation are often motivated by the assumption that men and women have different policy preferences. In Africa – where gender quotas have been particularly widespread – this paper finds that gender differences in preferences are quite small on average, but vary significantly across both policy domains and countries.
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  Ethnic identity, informal institutions, and the failure to elect women in indigenous Southern Mexico

  2013

  This article argues that the low levels of descriptive representation of women in local political office in Mexico and Latin America is much more than a problem of the purported patriarchal cultures of indigenous and rural communities.
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  Americas: transforming pain into hope: human rights defenders in the Americas

  Amnesty International, 2012

  Human rights defenders play a fundamental role in helping to create a world where the promise of human rights becomes a reality for all.
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  An AWID in-depth analysis of the Post-2015 High Level Panel Report and recommendations moving forward

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013

  This paper presents the Association for Women's Rights in Development's (AWID’s) analysis of the post-2015 High Level Panel (HLP) report and reflections for the post-2015 development agenda moving forward.
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  Brief 8: The Impact of the Crisis on Women United States: The Continued Need for Social Sector Stimulus

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010

  While many characterise the recent crisis in the United States (U.S.) as a ‘man-cession,’ such analysis discounts the important impacts on women and families. The effect on these groups is particularly crucial given the ‘invisible’ space that a large degree of female labour occupies. Government responses thus far have largely favoured male job retention and creation.
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  Brief 6: The Impact of the Crisis on Women in Eastern Europe

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010

  In all countries in Eastern Europe, poverty is highest among children and youth. Young women and men are the hardest hit due to the privatisation of education, housing, and flexibilisation of labour markets. A new category of the working poor has emerged: those barely surviving and with no chance of accumulating savings for future pensions.
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  Brief 5: The Impact of the Deepening Economic Crisis on Women and Gender Equality in Western Europe

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2010

  While the global economic crisis has hit all Western European countries, it has taken different forms with diverse ‘recovery’ programmes leading to differing impacts on women and gender roles.
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  AWID Think Piece on Fiscal Policy, Women’s Rights and Gender Equality

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013

  How do fiscal policies have an impact on the enjoyment of human rights and women's rights in particular? This think piece by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) argues that the human rights framework provides a clear and universally recognised foundation for the design, implementation and monitoring of fiscal and economic policies.

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