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  Gender: missing links in financing climate change. adaptation and mitigation

  Gender and Climate Change Network – Women for Climate Justice, 2007

  This position paper advocates for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to carefully plan the future of the climate regime in conjunction with proactive gender equality and sustainability guidelines, instead of being driven by dominant economic factors.
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  Budgeting with women in mind

  Finance and Development, IMF, 2007

  This article argues that the understanding of how public policies have different effects on men and women has improved in recent years and is influencing macroeconomic policymaking. Reducing gender disparities can lead to improved macroeconomic performance.
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  Aid in support of gender equality and women’s empowerment

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2007

  This report summarises statistics of foreign aid focused on gender equality and women’s empowerment by members of the OECD Development Assistant Committee (DAC).
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  Gender dimensions of intellectual property and traditional medical knowledge

  United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Regional Centre in Colombo, 2007

  This paper examines the discussion on intellectual property rights (IP) for traditional knowledge (TK) in medicine from a gender perspective. It argues that a gender analysis of these issues adds to the understanding of how trade decisions can have important and unintended impacts on the lives of disempowered people.
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  Where is the money for women's rights?

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2006

  This report assesses the resources and the role of donors in the promotion of women’s rights and the support of women’s rights organisations.
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  Gender bias and central bank policy: employment and inflation reduction

  The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2006

  Central banks in developing countries are increasingly turning to maintaining a low inflation rate as the central target of monetary policy, without much consideration for how these policies impact the real economy – outcomes like employment, investment and economic growth.
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  Budgeting for women’s rights: monitoring government budgets for compliance with CEDAW

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  This report adds a landmark to the discourse on the link between human rights standards and government budgets. It elaborates on how budgets and budget policy making processes can be monitored for compliance with human rights standards, in particular with the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
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  The impact of fiscal restraint on budgetary allocations for women's programs

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005

  This paper reviews the gender-differentiated effect of macro-economic policies by examining the impact of persistent revenue shortfalls on the part of the national government in 1997-2003 on the budget allocations for programmes that support gender equality and women’s priority public services in selected departments.
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  Gender-responsive budgeting in education

  Oxfam, 2005

  Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) is an attempt to ensure that gender-related issues are considered and addressed in all government policies.
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  BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: gender and budgets

  BRIDGE, 2003

  This Cutting Edge pack from BRIDGE outlines the concept and practices of gender-responsive budgetting, and examines strategies for improvement. The pack highlights the deficiencies of non-gender responsive budgeting, such as assuming that economic actors are genderless, classless, ageless, and without social , historical, and geographic situation.

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