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    BRIDGE Report 67: Gender and PRSPs - with Experiences from Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    How gender-sensitive were the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) processes in Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique? This report finds that the poverty assessments did not provide sufficient gendered information to ensure that the PRSPs were based on a thorough understanding of what drives poverty. The collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data needs to be prioritised.
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    United Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM) contribution to the World Bank and IMF PRSP preview

    World Bank, 2001
    The following feedback from UNIFEM on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) review is based on assessments done by non-governmental organisations, consultants and national women’s machineries in countries with both interim and full PRSPs.Areas of concern include:one of the key areas where there is a singular lack of gender dimension in the PRSPs is that of data collection to infor
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    Failing Women, Sustaining Poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Why have so few Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) taken women's poverty seriously? To answer the question, this paper draws on PRSP processes from Tanzania, Bolivia, Malawi and Yemen. As elsewhere, the PRSPs fail to address gender in a coherent and consistent way. If addressed, gender issues feature only under sections on health and education rather than being mainstreamed.
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    Gender in the PRSPs: A Stocktaking

    World Bank, 2001
    Opportunities for poverty reduction have been missed through neglect of gender issues. This is the conclusion of a review by the Gender and Development Group of the World Bank of 19 Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), four full PRSPs, and the accompanying Joint Bank and Fund Staff Assessments (JSAs). An examination of these reveals that overall attention to gender is minimal.
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    Money Matters Three: women and government revenue

    2001
    What support can be given to those advocating for gender-sensitive budget analysis? This is the third of three Money Matters books which are popular versions of the five South African Women's Budget analyses. The books are tools for lobbying and advocacy and are targeted at non-gender specialists who may be second-language English speakers.
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    Money Matters Two: women and the local government budget

    2000
    What support can be given to those advocating for gender-sensitive budget analysis in local government? This is the second of three 'Money Matters' books which are popular versions of the five South African Women's Budget analyses. The books are tools for lobbying and advocacy and are targeted at second- language English speakers with ten years of education.
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    Money Matters [One]: women and the government budget

    1998
    How do you make gender budget research and analysis accessible to non- specialists? What support can be given to those advocating for gender- sensitive budget analysis? This is the first of three Money Matters books which are popular versions of the five South African Women's Budget analyses.
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    Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, Concepts and Experiences

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002
    This publication contains papers from a high level international conference 'Strengthening Economic and Financial Governance through Gender Responsive Budgeting' held in Brussels in October 2001.
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    Budgeting with a Gender Focus

    1999
    The Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), an NGO committed to women's empowerment, spent nearly three years tracing the process of national planning and resource allocation, noting how it impacts on women and men, youth and the elderly.
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    Gender Sensitive Budgets, Concepts and Key Elements

    BRIDGE, 2002
    This handbook drawn up for the Mexican Ministry of Health provides information for policy-makers on how to implement a gender perspective within the National Programme of Health. The risk of disease, access to healthcare, and quality of services are all influenced by gender inequalities.

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