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  Gender Aspects of Social Protection and Pensions in Ageing Europe

  2004

  Gender equality has had only marginal consideration in social security reforms in Europe during the last decade despite the fact that they are an important tool for achieving gender equality and women and men are affected differently by social security systems.
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  Violence against Children in Swaziland - Findings from a National Survey

  2007

  High numbers of female children in Swaziland experience sexual, physical and emotional abuse and violence. This national survey found that one in three females experienced some kind of violence as a child. Female relatives were most likely to perpetrate emotional abuse, boyfriends and husbands sexual violence and male relatives (other than the victims' father) physical violence.
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  Gender and Social Protection

  Overseas Development Institute, 2004

  Social protection refers to the processes, policies and interventions which respond to the economic, social, political and security risks and constraints poor and vulnerable people face. Social protection measures aim to make poor people more able to participate in economic growth. This paper is a discussion of the gender implications of social protection policies, strategies and programmes.
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  Change and Continuity in Social Protection in Latin America: Mothers at the Service of the State?

  2007

  Far from 'empowering' women, social protection programmes in Latin America often increase women's unpaid responsibilities and reinforce the gender division of labour. This is the central argument put forward in this paper, which critically analyses two social protection programmes in Latin America. The first is the well-known Mexican-based Oportunidades programme (formerly Progresa).
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  Gender Equality and the Extension of Social Protection

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  There is overwhelming evidence that women occupy a disadvantaged status in relation to work opportunities when compared to men from equivalent social groups. Underpinning this is the unequal division of domestic and care work between men and women, which constrains women from taking up or remaining in full-time employment.
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  Cash Transfers and Gender Relations: Evidence from a Pilot Project in Lesotho (draft)

  BRIDGE, 2008

  What impact do cash-transfers have on gender relations? There are two main ways in which cash transfer projects are seen as having potentially negative impacts on gender relations within recipient households. First, it is supposed that women are less likely to be able to command control over the use of cash within the household compared to certain types of in-kind assistance, namely food.
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  Manual for Gender Mainstreaming: Social Inclusion and Social Protection Policies

  European Commission, 2007

  What do EU policy makers need to do to mainstream gender into social inclusion and social protection policies? This manual provides policy makers with a hands-on tool to aid this process. It suggests several factors to consider when designing social protection policies.
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  Review of experience in engaging with non-state justice systems in East Africa

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  This report seeks to help DfID understand the range of non-formal justice systems in the East Africa region, and to develop guidelines on how to work with such systems to make justice more accessible to poor people. The report is based on a review of relevant experience in three East African countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
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  Gender and Unpaid Work: Findings from the Time Use Survey

  Statistics, New Zealand, 2001

  Women and men in New Zealand spend about the same amount of time working - on average about seven hours a day. But while approximately 60 percent of men's work is paid, almost 70 percent of women's work is unpaid. Based on the findings of New Zealand's first national Time Use Survey conducted in 1998/9, this article explores differences in women's and men's participation in unpaid work.
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  Gender Sensitive Educational Policy and Practice: the Case of Malawi

  Zomba University, 2003

  What progress has been made towards ensuring that education in Malawi is gender sensitive? This paper provides an update on the Malawian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology's Policy and Investment Framework (PIF) and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), which emphasise the need to address gender imbalances and inequity in the education system at all levels.

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