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  What Works in Girls? Education: Evidence and Policies from the Developing World

  Council on Foreign Relations, 2004

  This paper summarises the most promising approaches to increasing girls' enrolment and educational quality. It also presents a wide range of data strongly supporting the need for governments and other stakeholders to invest in girls' education. It is aimed at policymakers and their staff and provides a list of 'what works' to educate girls, namely:
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  Regulating entrepreneurial behaviour in European health care systems

  European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2002

  This policy brief, published by the European Observatory on Health Care Systems, asks what level and type of regulation is most appropriate in initiatives which aim to use elements of both the public and private sectors to provide health care.
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  Barriers to sustainable tuberculosis control in the Russian Federation health system

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005

  This article, from the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO), analyses and evaluates the impact of the arrangements for delivering tuberculosis (TB) services in the Russian Federation. It does so by looking at barriers and incentives created by organisational structures, financing and provider-payment systems.
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  Local to Local Dialogue: A Grassroots Women's Perspective on Good Governance

  United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2004

  Despite their contributions to the survival of their households and the well-being of their communities, low-income women are often excluded from planning and decision-making processes. These women are instead perceived as either 'beneficiaries' or 'clients'. In either case, poor women are not seen as citizens who can play an important role in transforming governance.
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  Women of CEE/CIS Region in the Context of Sustainable Development: Road from Johannesburg-2002 towards Kiev-2003

  International Renaissance Foundation and the Liberal Society Institute, 2003

  The role of women in environmental decision-making has yet to be properly evaluated. This publication reports on the regional seminar and project ?Gender Mainstreaming Policy into the Framework of 'Environment for Europe' Process".
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  A Russian Perspective

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2001

  Gender equality is an important element in the successful transition to a market economy and democratic development. Unfortunately, in the economic and political transition in Russia women have paid a higher price than men.
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  Gender in Transition

  World Bank, 2002

  The extensive socio-economic transformation undertaken by the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia over the last decade has substantially affected the structure of these countries' economies and the living standards of their people. A relatively under-explored issue is the extent to which this process has differently affected men and women in each country.
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  Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation: The case of the Russian Federation

  International Organization for Migration, 2002

  This report analyses the conditions for women in Russia that enable trafficking to flourish, including high rates of poverty and violence against women, as well as the prevalence of organised crime networks. It also describes different types of victims, destination countries and Russian trafficking legislation.
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  Shadow Report: Implementation by the Russian Federation of UN Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

  Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations, 2001

  This shadow report from the Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations based in Moscow is critical of the Russian Federation's implementation of CEDAW in practice. Despite ratifying the CEDAW and having in place constitutional protection for gender equality, and the existence of a National Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women, practice still lags far behind.
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  Fifth Periodic CEDAW Report of States Parties - Russian Federation

  1999

  This is Russia's fifth periodic report to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It outlines the measures taken by the Russian Federation to combat discrimination against women between 1994 and 1998.

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