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  Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Voice and Accountability

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  The concepts of voice and accountability form the core values of good governance - of ensuring that citizens have a voice in decisions made about their lives and that states and other actors hear those voices and respond to them.
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  Analysis of the Commission for Africa Report

  BRIDGE, 2005

  This follow-up to the United Kingdom (UK) Gender and Development Network's (GADN) submission to the Commission for Africa consultation process reviews and critiques the extent to which gender concerns are reflected in the final report of the Commission. Although the Commission's report recognises that women are a key part of the solution to Africa's problems, significant gaps remain.
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  Assessing the Gender Impact of the Community based Animal Health Programme in Southern Sudan

  Veterinaires sans Frontieres, Belgium, 2002

  How does the position of women in the Nuer Community affect the division of labour in livestock activities? In southern Sudan many communities are chronically food insecure with little access to livestock and its products (e.g. milk and blood meat).
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  Gender Strategy and Implementation Plan for Agriculture and Rural Development

  Asian Development Bank, 2004

  While laws and policies in Vietnam guarantee equality between women and men, in practise their implementation is not equal, for example with regard to land use rights, access to credit, and information and technological extension.
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  Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries: Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

  International Land Coalition, 2004

  Women's access to land is a fundamental factor in food security. Yet women all over the world suffer under discriminatory property and inheritance laws and customary practices which restrict their rights over the land on which they live and work. Articles 15 and 16 of CEDAW state the rights of women to property and inheritance.
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  Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 10-year Review of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action

  2004

  The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) held a meeting to provide a regional assessment for the 2005 Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). This document summarises the outcomes of this meeting, which will be the basis for the regional input at the Beijing +10 meetings at the Commission on the Status of Women in March 2005.
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  From Beijing to Addis Ababa: What Progress for African Women?

  Pambazuka, 2004

  How far has Africa moved towards fulfilling the goals set out in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA)? This paper sets out some priority areas of the BPfA including health, education, involvement in public decision-making structures, armed conflict and eliminating violence against women.
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  Alternative Report to the UK Questionnaire Response of Progress of the Platform for Action and the Outcome of the Twenty-Third Session of the General Assembly

  2004

  The UK government's report on progress in achieving gender equality and women's empowerment as set out in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) masks large regional variations between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Women's European Platform (NIWEP) identifies areas where Northern Ireland (NI) in particular falls behind.
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  Guide for gender-disaggregated data in agriculture and rural development

  Socioeconomic And Gender Analysis Programme, FAO, 2003

  International conferences - from the First World Conference in Mexico in 1975 to the Fourth World Conference in Beijing in 1995 - have highlighted the need for accessible information and data as a starting point for any programme for the advancement of women.
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  Women of CEE/CIS Region in the Context of Sustainable Development: Road from Johannesburg-2002 towards Kiev-2003

  International Renaissance Foundation and the Liberal Society Institute, 2003

  The role of women in environmental decision-making has yet to be properly evaluated. This publication reports on the regional seminar and project ?Gender Mainstreaming Policy into the Framework of 'Environment for Europe' Process".

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