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  Gender Equality, the New Aid Environment and Civil Society Organisations: a Research Project of the UK Gender and Development Network

  BRIDGE, 2008

  This report provides a response to a growing concern among Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) about the fast changing aid structures, such as direct budget support, pooled funding schemes for supporting civil society and other forms of donor alignment.
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  Class of Dialogues on Vagina Monologues: A Sum-up on the Pedagogy of Women and Gender Studies

  2004

  In the evening of December 20, 2002, teachers from more than 20 universities in China came to the classroom to watch graduate students' perform a multimedia presentation of dialogues from 'The Vagina Monologues'. The response to this taboo shaking class was both applause and censure.
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  The Second Fundher Report: Financial Sustainability for Women's Movements Worldwide

  2007

  Where is the money for women's rights and how can we tap it? How could new resources be mobilised to build stronger feminist movements in order to advance women's rights worldwide? This report analyses the funding landscape for women's rights work, building on an earlier report published by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) in 2006.
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  Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

  Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007

  Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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  Gender in the Pacific Island States: Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography

  BRIDGE, 2007

  Drawing on 124 diverse resources, this literature review and annotated bibliography provides insights into the culture, geography and history of the Pacific Region and considers how they shape gender relations, roles and norms.
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  The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement 'Maria Elena Cuadra' (MEC)

  Maria Elena Cuadra, 2007

  This movement supports women to participate fully and equally in Nicaraguan society by offering a space for reflection, capacity building and organisation. They focus on issues related to women's economic empowerment and labour rights but also work on other related issues like gender-based violence, poverty eradication and the environment.
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  Proposed Indicators to measure the targets set by the international Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002

  This document is part of a proposal being developed to generate a system of indicators to measure progress towards meeting the objectives of the Action Plan of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Latin America and the Caribbean. A regional system of indicators is proposed to measure progress and identify inequalities among the various population groups.
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  Gender and Indicators Cutting Edge Pack

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  What does a world without gender inequality look like? Realising this vision requires inspiring and mobilising social change. But what would indicate we are on the right track - and how will we know when we get there?
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  Participation and Leadership in Latin America and the Caribbean: Gender Indicators

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1999

  The Beijing Platform for Action stipulates that countries are obliged to monitor and evaluate progress in improving the representation and participation of women at all levels of decision-making, both inside and outside of government.
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  Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy

  Routledge, 2006

  The Human Development Report Office has used both the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) as a means of monitoring international progress in the development of women's capabilities. This paper makes a case for the development of additional indices focused on burdens of financial and temporal responsibility for the care of dependents.

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