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  Women, Peace and Security: Nigeria

  2006

  The Peacewomen web portal maps the current situation of women and girls in all countries of the world and is regularly up-dated. This section on Nigeria includes news articles, from a variety of sources, a list of current local and international activist and advocacy initiatives, such as the online petition against Sharia laws run by Women's Rights Watch in Nigeria.
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  Nigeria: Using Gender Mainstreaming Processes to Help Protect Drinking Water Sources of the Obudu Plateau Communities in Northern Cross River State

  United Nations, 2005

  How can gender-sensitive approaches to natural resource management be implemented, particularly in contexts were women do not traditionally participate in such activities? In Nigeria, the construction of a tourist resort on the Obudu plateau led to deforestation and exacerbated pre-existing pressures on water resources and the environment.
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  Institutionalisation of Gender Inequality in Nigeria: Implications for the Advancement of Women

  Population Review Publications, 2005

  Gender inequality is institutionalised in Nigerian society, particularly in rural areas. The main barriers to the advancement of women are low level of female employment in the formal labour sector, low literacy rates, limited employment opportunities, and patriarchal cultural practices that limit women's access to and control over resources.
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  Nigeria: Unheard voices. Violence against women in the family

  2005

  Countless women and girls in Nigeria are subjected to violence by some members of their families and within their communities, as in many countries throughout the world. Women of all ages and from all socio-economic groups, living in rural and urban communities, are affected.
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  Girl power: asserting sexual rights in Nigeria

  Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2001

  Girl Power Initiative (GPI) in Nigeria provides training for adolescent girls on sexuality - equipping girls with the knowledge and confidence to exercise more control over their bodies and sexualities. Seventeen-year-old Tina had a sixteen-year-old friend who had already dropped out of school after becoming pregnant.
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  Mainstreaming Gender Equality into the National Response to HIV/AIDS

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), with support from the Canadian International Development Association (CIDA) and other organisations, advocated for the establishment of a 'Gender Technical Committee' (GTC) to promote a more gender responsive HIV/AIDS response in Nigeria. The GTC has been approved by the National Action Committee on AIDS.
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  Missing the target: off target for 2010: how to avoid breaking the promise of universal access

  International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, 2006

  This report, from the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC), follows on from a 2005 study that explored specific barriers and potential solutions to AIDS treatment delivery in six countries. This report finds some progress but argues that a lack of national leadership and slow implementation of reforms continues to prevent treatment delivery.
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  Managing urban calamity:  the infrastructure crisis facing metropolitan Lagos

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Lagos, sub-Saharan Africa’s largest city, is also considered one of its worst. Failing infrastructure, economic instability and chronic crime mean that the expansion of the city has not brought prosperity to its citizens. Managing the crisis requires a historical understanding of the political and economic forces that have shaped the development of Lagos.
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  DFID KaR Action Research on :Improving transparency, efficiency and effectiveness of pro-poor government services

  Knowledge and Research Programme on Disability and Healthcare Technology, DFID, 2006

  This report and toolkit focuses on how ICTs can improve the effectiveness of public service delivery to the poor and vulnerable.
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  Evidence of returns to schooling in Africa from household surveys: monitoring and restructuring the market for education

  Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 2003

  In the last two decades, many countries in Africa have had difficulty extending primary and secondary schooling to an increasing fraction of their youth, or in building high quality university training and parallel research institutions.

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