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  Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women. Task Force on Education and Gender Equality

  2005

  To accelerate progress toward achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Mark Malloch Brown launched the UN Millennium Project, a three-year effort to identify the best strategies for meeting the MDGs.
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  Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: A Critical Analysis of the Third Millennium Development Goal

  Oxfam, 2005

  While each of the three indicators used to measure progress towards the Third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) has the potential to bring about positive changes in women's lives, they also have limits as pathways to women's empowerment.
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  A Quick Guide to Using Gender Sensitive Indicators: A Reference Manual for Governments and Other Stakeholders

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  This guide aims to assist governments in the selection, use and dissemination of gender-sensitive indicators at the national level. It is also relevant to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), women's groups, professional associations, academics and others committed to promoting gender equality.
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  Strategic Impact Inquiry on Women's Empowerment: Report of Year 1

  CARE International, 2005

  This report presents the findings from the first year of CARE's Strategic Impact Inquiry into Women's Empowerment. One striking result of the inquiry was the general lack of attention within CARE to defining what is meant by women's empowerment.
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  Women's Empowerment as a Variable in International Development

  2002

  Measuring 'empowerment' depends on the establishment of universal standards (such as human rights), but at the same time it must allow for indicators which are sensitive to context. Further difficulties arise from the need to measure empowerment as a process as opposed to a fixed condition or outcome.
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  Measuring Empowerment: A Methodological Approach

  2003

  How do we decide how empowered a woman or group of women are? Do frequently used socio-economic indicators such as education, income, and labour force participation adequately capture women's 'empowerment'? This paper argues that while these quantitative socio-economic measures of empowerment are useful indicators, they are not sensitive enough to capture the nuances of gender power relations.
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  A Menu of Options for Intra-Household Poverty Assessment

  2006

  Most measures of household poverty, based on income and consumption, assume that all resources that enter the household are shared equally by household members. Yet, in reality, some members may be relatively more privileged than others, commanding more income and accessing greater consumption opportunities. Often it is women, children and the elderly who are most disproportionately affected.
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  Focus. Empowering Women

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) supports Palestinian women through a wide range of initiatives - reviewed in this magazine. Training on gender and women's rights and assistance in gender mainstreaming is provided by UNDP to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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  Involving Men in Gender Policy and Practice

  Women for Women International, 2007

  The rationale for engaging men to positively transform gender relations is compelling. This paper outlines the arguments for male inclusion, both for gender equality and for men themselves, the principles that should underpin their involvement, and some notes of caution about the process. Men have traditionally been treated as generic and ungendered representatives of humanity.
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  Mainstreaming Men in Work Towards Gender Equity

  XY Online, 2005

  The importance of engaging and integrating men into work and policy on gender issues is increasingly recognised. Men have roles in maintaining and fostering gender equality. More is also known about the detrimental effects of male exclusion and positive effects of male inclusion.

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