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    Gender Checklist: Education

    Asian Development Bank, 2002
    Do the project objectives deal directly with the needs of women, particularly among the poor, and did they have a hand in setting the objectives? This is one of the questions in ADB's checklist designed to help development practitioners at the project level identify gender issues in initial social assessment of projects.
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    Handbook for the Integration of a Gender Perspective in the Education Sector

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1997
    Addressing gender issues in education is an important step towards broader social change. This handbook is a practical, user-friendly guide, focusing on the process of integrating gender issues into policies and programmes in the education sector.
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    ABC of Gender Analysis

    1997
    Research has shown that school textbooks are often biased in their portrayal and perpetuation of gender roles and relationships. Apart from learning the technical aspects of the subject content, children will pick up implicit gendered messages from the text about what people do, how they relate to one another, and how the world is constructed. In this way, textbooks serve as socialising agents.
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    Education: Policy Issues in Girls' Schooling: A Three-Part Training Module

    Institut de Recherche sur l'Economie de l'Education, France, 1997
    Lack of opportunities for girls in the education system means that most girls will grow up without the personal human capital advantage that most boys will have. Designed to build skills in analysing girls' education issues, the online training module is targeted at policy makers in the education sector and statisticians in national education ministries.
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    CIDA's Online Course in Gender Equality

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
    User-friendly, online course covering the spectrum of gender equality issues in programming. Targeted at CIDA programme staff, and staff from other donor agencies, who require background information and tools for working towards gender equality.
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    Mainstreaming Gender in Education: A Toolkit for Gender Responsive Education Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Collaborative Centre for Gender and Development, Kenya, 1999
    Gender gaps in education management, attributed to: (i) cultural norms and socialisation patterns, (ii) the ideology of patriarchy (iii) gender insensitive teacher education programmes and rules governing promotions and (iv) gender insensitive educational policies.
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    Education for All: Guidelines for Preparing Gender Responsive EFA Plans

    2002
    Presented in a A5 sized booklet, the guidelines highlight gender issues to consider in programme planning in the education sector. In the first section, 'Situation analysis and identification of issues' the authors highlight the issues of access, quality and relevance, and management.
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    Gender Budget Initiative in India?Education Sector Insights

    BRIDGE, 2002
    This presentation was given at a DFID seminar entitled 'Gender Budgeting' in July 2002. It outlines gender budgeting efforts in India at the National and State levels. Case studies from the education sector are provided.
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    Mainstreaming Gender Equality: Sida's Support for the Promotion of Gender Equality in Partner Countries

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002
    There is a continuing need to ensure that the goal of gender equality is defined with clarity at the level of policies, strategies and interventions. This clarity needs to be maintained as Sida seeks convergence and complimentarity between gender equality goals and other goals such as poverty reduction.
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    Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa

    2000
    Information is universally acknowledged to be central to sustainable and equitable development. In Africa, however, access to information is limited, and especially so for rural women. The new information and communication technologies(ICTs), centred mostly on the Internet, provide potential to redress this imbalance.

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