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  Gender, Conservation, and Community Participation: the Case of the Ja£ National Park, Brazil

  Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis, 1999

  How do gender relations affect people's knowledge, use and control of and impact on natural resources? The Funda?Æo Vit¢ria Amaz?nica (FVA) is a local NGO which has carried out pioneer work on gender, community participation and partnership building in their conservation activities in the Ja£ National Park (PNJ).
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  Genders and generations in urban shantytown development

  Global Development Network, 2000

  Dynamic gender relations interact with other processes of change. These include the evolution of family and household life cycle groups; the development of communities; changing national contexts; and development project cycles. This paper studies a shanty community on the outskirts of Lima to observe gender changes over time.
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  Realizing decent work for older women workers

  Older Workers, 2000

  Over the course of the next 50 years, older age groups will make up an increasingly larger share of the total global population. Policy-makers have primarily responded to the challenges posed by ageing populations by focusing on reforming social security and health care systems to minimise projected public expenditure.
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  Promoting Girls' Education in Africa: The Design and Implementation of Policy Interventions

  BRIDGE, 1998

  The design and implementation of gender policies in Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe are reviewed in this paper, with focus on how gender disparities in education have been incorporated into policy design and other interventions. It assesses the extent to which interventions have been donor driven and affected by political and organisational constraints.
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  Redressing Gender Inequalities in Education: A Review of Constraints and Priorities in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  1995

  Literature on what causes gender inequalities in education, as well as on policy and interventions designed to address factors influencing girls' participation in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe is reviewed in this report. Information to facilitate the design and implementation of interventions in order to improve girls' educational outcomes is provided.
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  BRIDGE Bibliography 10: Gender Equality in Education: A Select Annotated Bibliography

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  Aiming to be a practical and useful document for DFID education advisers and those responsible for the implementation of education programmes and projects, in striving towards the international goal of removing gender gaps in education by the year 2005, this bibliography presents a wide range of gender and education materials.
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  Violence Against Older People: The Gender Dimension

  HelpAge International, 2000

  An estimated 500 women are murdered very year in Tanzania after being accused of witchcraft, and many are driven from their homes and communities. Many are older women, who are used as scapegoats for family misfortune. Belief in witchcraft is embedded in African ancient history and remains strong despite modernisation and development.
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  Widowhood and Older Women

  HelpAge International, 2000

  Widows in India comprise 8 percent of the female population, with 64 percent aged over 80 years. As in other countries, there are many more widows than widowers because more men die before their wives, and widowed men are much more likely to remarry. This study shows that women become economically and socially isolated upon the death of their husband.
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  Gender Inequalities in Primary Schooling: The Roles of Poverty and Adverse Cultural Practices

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  The roles of poverty and 'adverse cultural practices' in perpetuating the gender gap in primary education evident in many developing countries are explored in this paper. It investigates whether variations in terms of the gender gap can be explained by a country's level of development.
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  Empowering the Next Generation: Girls of the Maqattam Garbage Settlement

  Population Council, 1998

  Lessons learned from interventions aimed at extending employment opportunities and broader social roles to adolescent girls in the settlement of Maqattam (on the outskirts of Cairo) are the focus of this publication. Livelihoods of Maqattam families are directly or indirectly linked to garbage collection and sorting, and almost half of households have adolescent daughters.

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