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  Budgeting for Equity: Gender Budget Initiatives within a Framework of Performance Oriented Budgeting

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  Can performance-oriented budgeting serve as a framework for making budgets more gender responsive? This question is set in the context of recent public sector reforms to make public expenditure more 'results based' as part of the 'good governance' agenda.
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  Gender Budgets: What's in it for NGOs?

  BRIDGE, 2002

  Over the last seven years, there has been increasing interest in gender budget work worldwide. There are, however, big differences between the initiatives in different countries. In particular, in some cases the initiatives have been located inside government; in other cases in Parliament; and in yet others within civil society.
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  How to Make the Law Work? Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence Policies in Latin America

  2003

  How can domestic violence be reduced in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? This synthesis research paper demonstrates that to make domestic violence policy work there needs to be sufficient budgetary allocations to enable the laws enacted in these countries to translate into action.
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  Gender Impacts of Government Revenue Collection: The Case of Taxation

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  Are tax systems gender neutral? Assessing taxation and revenue from a gender perspective is no easy task. Political and technical constraints help to explain why most work to date has focused on expenditure. This paper provides information to assist in the analysis of potential gender bias in tax systems and help the design of gender-sensitive revenue measures.
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  BRIDGE Report 57: Gender and Development: Frequently Asked Questions

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  What right do we have to interfere in other people's cultures? This is one question frequently asked of gender advocates. This collection draws together a range of popular questions and proposes possible answers. It is divided into three main sections. The first poses questions relating to gender in development more broadly that might be asked by those not familiar with the issues.
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  International Gender and Trade Network: WTO Fifth Ministerial Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, September 10-14th, 2003 (Position Papers on Four WTO Issues)

  2003

  The IGTN Advocacy Document for the 5th WTO Ministerial Meeting that was held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003 focuses on these four issues and identifies critical advocacy positions for each of them.
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  Transcending boundaries to improve the food security of AIDS affected households in rural Uganda

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003

  In most of sub-Saharan Africa, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is crippling the livelihood systems of households, jeopardizing income flow, and threatening food security.
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  Common Ground, Women's Access to Natural Resources and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals

  2003

  Due to traditional gender roles, many women and girls are denied access to and control over water, energy, land and biodiversity, despite their critical role in sustaining these natural resources. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can potentially address this concern.
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  Experts Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in Selected African Countries: Proceedings

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  Through presentations and working groups, participants from governments, civil society and donor agencies explored conceptual issues around gender and poverty, how to engender Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the extent to which gender-sensitive budget initiatives are integrated into these.
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  Shifting Spaces: Women, Citizenship and Migration within the European Union

  Polity Press, 1998

  This book is based on a research project examining the gender dimensions of internal migration in the European Union (EU). The impact of EU membership on the citizenship experience of female EU nationals as they migrate from one member country to another is explored.

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