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    The global financial and economic crisis and its impact on women: a human rights perspective

    Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2011
    How has the global financial and economic crisis impacted on south Asian countries, and how has it affected women and men differently? Common economic analyses have highlighted the social impact using financial indicators. But this approach ignores those sections of society not counted in traditional economic spheres, including many women.
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    Gender Action Link: IFIs and sexual and reproductive rights

    Gender Action, 2011
    Gender Action research shows that although sexual and reproductive health (SRH) rights are promoted by international financial institutions’ policies, they are rarely acknowledged or fulfilled through investments. This document explores how ideological assaults on SRH investments undermine the World Bank’s SRH and gender policies.
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    GenARDIS 2002-2010: Small grants that made big changes for women in agriculture

    Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS), 2010
    What is being done to bridge the gender digital divide? Since 2002, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) fund: Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society (GenARDIS) has offered small grants for women.
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    In Search of Economic Alternatives for Gender and Social Justice: Voices from India

    Women in Development Europe, 2010
    How can we shape an alternative economic and gender just development process?
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    The Global Gender Gap Report 2010

    World Economic Forum, 2010
    The Global Gender Gap Index was introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, as a framework for capturing and measuring gender based disparities and tracking their progress. It seeks to highlight those countries that are role models in dividing resources equitably between women and men, regardless of their level of resources. In 2010, 134 countries were included in the index.
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    Budgeting for women’s rights monitoring government budget for compliance with CEDAW: a summary guide for policy-makers, gender equality and human rights advocates

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2008
    The adoption of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) by the United Nations in 1979 and subsequent ratification by 185 countries has broad implications on state obligations. State parties to the treaty are obliged to ensure compliance of government activity with human rights standards on gender equality including budgeting.
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    Training manual on gender budget analysis

    Gender Responsive Budgeting, 2006
    The incidence of gender inequalities in Nigeria is widely regarded as an obstacle to achieving optimum social and economic development.
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    Innovative funding for women’s organisations

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2008
    Funding support for women’s organisations and for non-governmental organisations working to achieve gender equality is an important element in many donors strategies. These organisations often have detailed knowledge of social and cultural barriers to gender equality. They can also recognise and address the impact of gender inequalities at local, national and international level.
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    Where is the money to address gender-based violence?

    2007
    Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a pressing concern in South Africa, with levels of rape, domestic violence and femicide unabated during its fourteen years of democracy. Despite this, civil society organisations (CSOs) working in the sector find themselves facing a deepening funding crisis.
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    Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women

    WomenWatch, UN, 2007
    This paper reports on a meeting which aimed to explore the mechanisms of financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women. It serves as a follow-up to the Monterrey Consensus on financing for development, including macroeconomic policies and looks at the potentials and challenges of the different modalities and mechanisms, as well as the role of key actors involved.

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