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Expectations versus realities in gender-responsive budget initiatives
United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005This paper addresses the question of how well gender-responsive budget (GRB) initiatives have done in practice compared with the claims and expectations about what they can achieve?DocumentGender and budget 2005
International Budget Partnership, 2005This paper examines gender equity within the 2005 South African budget. The authors highlight that women and girls are often most vulnerable to conditions like HIV/AIDS and poverty, but that programmes to address these conditions will fail without a significant earmarking of funds.DocumentAccountability upside down: gender equality in a partnership for poverty eradication
Social Watch, 2005This report argues that the ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) must be linked to the review process of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as it provides a major input into the that process.DocumentGender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world
United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005In commemoration and support of the Beijing Platform for Action, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) launched a technical assessment of the progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Platform during its March 2005 session. This paper supports this assesment, shedding light on some of the critical policy issues highlighted in the Beijing Platform for Action.DocumentGlobalisation hurts women more than men
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003A common myth is that globalisation hurts women more than men. This myth is based on two other related myths, firstly that men control women's incomes at household level, secondly that whereas men are selfish, women are weak, maternal and generous, and hence devote most of their earnings to the needs of their children.DocumentMind the gap: mainstreaming gender and participation in development
International Institute for Environment and Development, 2003This paper highlights lessons from gender mainstreaming work for those who seek to institutionalise participation. It draws on literature and on the author's own experience of promoting mainstreaming in a range of development organisations.DocumentIncreasing women’s representation in Iraq: what strategies would work best?
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2004This briefing document summarises some of the main policy options used for securing women’s inclusion in all Iraqi governing bodies. These strategies can be adopted for election or appointment to the Governorate Election Caucus, the Transitional National Authority, the national legislature, any regional or local bodies, and other public offices, such as commissions.DocumentReport of the meeting of experts on time-use surveys
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004This report summarises the meeting of experts on time-use surveys that was held in Santiago, Chile. The aim of the meeting was to discuss and exchange experiences in the preparation of time-use surveys (TUS) with regard to both methodological and conceptual aspects, taking into account the main difficulties and problems in their development.DocumentGender tool kit: instruments for gender mainstreaming
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2004This tool-kit is designed as an instrument to help practitioners ask themselves the right questions at the right moment in order for gender to be integrated at the different stage of development programmes. The kit contains several gender-specific sheets, and a reference list.