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    BRIDGE Report 67: Gender and PRSPs - with Experiences from Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    How gender-sensitive were the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) processes in Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique? This report finds that the poverty assessments did not provide sufficient gendered information to ensure that the PRSPs were based on a thorough understanding of what drives poverty. The collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data needs to be prioritised.
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    United Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM) contribution to the World Bank and IMF PRSP preview

    World Bank, 2001
    The following feedback from UNIFEM on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) review is based on assessments done by non-governmental organisations, consultants and national women’s machineries in countries with both interim and full PRSPs.Areas of concern include:one of the key areas where there is a singular lack of gender dimension in the PRSPs is that of data collection to infor
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    Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2003
    At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 governments pledged collective responsibility to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first being to halve world poverty by 2015, and the third to "Promote gender equality and empower women". This book provides evidence as to why promoting gender equality is essential for halving world poverty and realising all eight MDGs.
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    Failing Women, Sustaining Poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Why have so few Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) taken women's poverty seriously? To answer the question, this paper draws on PRSP processes from Tanzania, Bolivia, Malawi and Yemen. As elsewhere, the PRSPs fail to address gender in a coherent and consistent way. If addressed, gender issues feature only under sections on health and education rather than being mainstreamed.
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    Gender in the PRSPs: A Stocktaking

    World Bank, 2001
    Opportunities for poverty reduction have been missed through neglect of gender issues. This is the conclusion of a review by the Gender and Development Group of the World Bank of 19 Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), four full PRSPs, and the accompanying Joint Bank and Fund Staff Assessments (JSAs). An examination of these reveals that overall attention to gender is minimal.
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    Gender Sensitive Budgets, Concepts and Key Elements

    BRIDGE, 2002
    This handbook drawn up for the Mexican Ministry of Health provides information for policy-makers on how to implement a gender perspective within the National Programme of Health. The risk of disease, access to healthcare, and quality of services are all influenced by gender inequalities.
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    The Gender Budget 1998/99

    Forum for Women in Democracy, 1998
    What does gender analysis of a budget look like? FOWODE in Uganda has completed the first phase of its Gender Budget Project, which examines the differential impact of Uganda's budget on women and men, girls and boys. This book is an account of this first phase, which concentrates on an analysis of the 1998/1999 budget in three sectors - agriculture, education and health.
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    Rwanda: Translating Government Commitments Into Action

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2002
    How do Gender Budget Initiatives fit into broader policy frameworks? This case study from the book Gender Budgets Make More Cents: Country studies and good practice examines the Gender Budget Initiative (GBI) in Rwanda.
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    Some Research Gaps in Gender Budget Work from an Advocacy Perspective

    BRIDGE, 2002
    Gender Budget Initiatives can be an important tool for claiming resources, however are they restricted to research and policy papers? This paper takes a look at gender budget work from an advocacy perspective - stating that budgets are nine parts politics and one part information.

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