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    Motherhood in childhood: facing the challenge of adolescent pregnancy

    United Nations Population Fund, 2013
    Every day in developing countries, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth. Nine in 10 of these births occur within marriage or a union. This has consequences on the health, education, employment and rights of an untold millions of girls. What are the challenges of adolescent pregnancy, and what can we do to ensure girls have a healthy and safe transition into adulthood?
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    Youth, Waithood, and Protest Movements in Africa

    International African Institute, 2013
    Africa is the world’s youngest continent, with the majority of its population under the age of 24. Although during the past decade the continent has experienced considerable economic growth, it has not translated into job creation and greater equity.
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    Guide for the Evaluation of Programmes and Projects with a Gender, Human Rights and Interculturality Perspective

    UN Women, 2014
    In recent years, UN Women have progressively advanced in the development of a conceptual and methodological basis for improving the processes of programme and project evaluation. Similarly, there is an important body of resources for the gender equality approach, and the same is true for the field of human rights.
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    Literature Review on Gender and Fragility

    European University Institute, Italy, 2009
    This review sets out to provide the background literature on which the emerging analysis of gender and fragility builds with reference to the literature on gender and economic development, gender indicators and gender responsive budgeting, gender and peace, gender and conflict and gender, governance and citizenship.
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    Reflections on Womankind Worldwide's experiences of tackling common challenges in monitoring and evaluating women's rights programming

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2014
    What are the key technical and institutional challenges that women's rights organisations and programmes commonly face in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approaches and systems?
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    I know. I want. I dream. Girls’ insights for building a better world

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2013
    In 2013, a multi-country research effort was initiated to ensure that girls’ voices would guide the global development agenda. Implemented by the research firm 2CV, in close collaboration with local research partners and NGOs, the goal of the Post-2015 Adolescent Girl Consultations was to create a platform for girls to voice their unique insights, opinions and ideas.
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    African Women and Girls – Their say on their world post-2015

    Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014
    The Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), has released a landmark publication that details the voices of African women and girls in the post Millennium Development Goals discussion. African women and girls at the Grassroots – their say on their world post 2015 is a representation of African women’s voices from the grassroots.
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    Strong girls, powerful women: program planning and design for adolescent girls in humanitarian settings

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2014
    In collaboration with implementing partners, the Women’s Refugee Commission tested promising approaches in adolescent girls’ programming by applying the learning from development contexts in pilot programmes in three displacement settings.
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    WED: Measuring Change in Women Entrepreneur’s Economic Empowerment: A Literature Review

    2013
    The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) women’s entrepreneurship development (WED) working group advances a learning and knowledge sharing agenda on the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship development. Its mission is to promote equitable opportunities between women and men, as well as strengthen economic impact.
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    Empowering Women Entrepreneurs through Information and Communication Technologies - A Practical Guide

    United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2014
    The promotion of micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) has been recognised as an important strategy for advancing the economic empowerment of women, while reducing poverty and gender inequality.

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