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  Budgets as if People Mattered: Democratising Macroeconomic Policies

  United Nations Development Programme, 2000

  How can macroeconomic policy frameworks be democratised to take into account the voices and interests of women and the poor? In most countries, ordinary citizens, particularly poor women and men, do not have a say in determining how public revenues are collected and spent. An alternative is people-centred budgeting.
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  An Introduction to the General Agreement on Trade in Services for Gender Advocates

  2001

  This short piece provides an introduction to the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). GATS is problematic because it encourages the privatisation of public services and amenities such as water, healthcare and education; it threatens to overrule domestic laws where these are perceived to hinder free trade; and the propositions within the agreement remain untested.
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  Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

  2001

  Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women.
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  Tackling Gender in Sustainable Land Management

  Centre for Development and Environment, 2002

  How can a gender approach be integrated into sustainable land management? Staff at the project and programme levels can use this guide to find practical ways of dealing with gender issues in rural development activities. From a perspective that takes up the Beijing call for gender mainstreaming, it also reaches out to people responsible for policy and organisational development.
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  Towards Gender Equality in the Palestinian Territories: A Profile on Gender Relations

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999

  The situation of women in Palestine must be examined in the political context of transformation. This report from research conducted at the Institute of Women's Studies, Birzeit University was undertaken at the critical point of the end of the five-year transitional period mandated in the Oslo agreement. The report seeks to strengthen the link between development and rights-based approaches.
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  Moving the Goalposts: Gender and Globalisation in the Twenty-first Century

  Oxfam, 2000

  The ability to grasp the best opportunities brought about by the expansion of global trade and production are determined by women and men's different degrees of freedom to take on waged employment and their level of skills and training, including literacy. Women (and men) who have responsibilities for unpaid reproductive work are constrained in pursuing waged employment.
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  In Unity There is Power, Processes of Participation and Empowerment

  2000

  This training module is a result of the work undertaken by the 'Toward Equity' project-World Conservation Union/Arias Foundation and is part of a series. It is intended to be used by specialists involved in training facilitation activities and focuses on the analysis of power as an inequality factor and on its implications in rural development initiatives.
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  Conceptual Framework for Gender and Community-Based Conservation

  Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis, 1999

  The MERGE programme (Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis) is a collaborative network of Latin American organisations involved in applying a gender, participatory focus to work with communities in the management of natural resources. It is mainly focused on developing training and technical assistance programmes.
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  Gender is not a Sensitive Issue: Institutionalising a gender-oriented participatory approach in Siavonga, Zambia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 1997

  Many development workers are hesitant to address gender issues in their programmes, because they fear receiving a hostile reaction in the communities where they work. Christiane Frischmuth's case study of an extension project in Siavonga, Zambia demonstrates that gender need not be an intractable 'hot' topic.
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  Gender, Conservation, and Community Participation: the Case of the Ja£ National Park, Brazil

  Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis, 1999

  How do gender relations affect people's knowledge, use and control of and impact on natural resources? The Funda?Æo Vit¢ria Amaz?nica (FVA) is a local NGO which has carried out pioneer work on gender, community participation and partnership building in their conservation activities in the Ja£ National Park (PNJ).

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