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  Addressing the needs of women affected by armed conflict: an ICRC guidance document

  International Committee of the Red Cross, 2004

  This guidance document, which accompanies other Women Facing War documents aims to provide an operational tool for ensuring that humanitarian programmes and services adequately address women’s needs. This document is primarily addressed to ICRC staff concerned with the planning and implementation of humanitarian programmes.
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  Gender manual: a practical guide for development policy makers and practitioners

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This gender manual is designed to help non-gender specialists in recognising and addressing gender issues in their work. The intention is to demystify gender, make the concept and practice of gender “mainstreaming” accessible to a wide audience, and clarify when to call in specialist help.The manual is intended to be enabling rather than prescriptive.
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  Development of gender institutions in the Caribbean: challenges for the 21st century

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004

  This paper was prepared for discussion at the Ninth Session of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean held in Mexico City, June 10-12, 2004. The objective of this paper is to review the process of how the institutions responsible for promoting gender equity have evolved in the Caribbean region.
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  Reforming the World Bank: will the gender strategy make a difference? a study with China case examples (Updated Version)

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2005

  This paper examines reasons for why "engendering" World Bank investments and other initiatives would be beneficial for all involved, and claims that civil society groups must pressure the bank to ensure that all Bank investments and policies are socially and environmentally responsible.
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  Challenging women's poverty: perspectives on gender and poverty reduction strategies from Nicaragua and Honduras

  Progressio, 2003

  This paper explores the role of gender in World Bank and IMF-implemented poverty reduction strategy papers. The authors conclude that if PRSPs are to succeed, strategies to reduce poverty must consider the basis of gender inequalities in wealth.
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  Engendering budgets: a practitioners’ guide to understanding and implementing gender-responsive budgets

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003

  This guide, from the Commonwealth Secretariat, is intended to help practitioners design and implement gender-responsive budgets (GRB). The first part of the guide provides background information on GRBs. Part two outlines how to implement a government budget, as well the budget process and potential entry points for beginning gender budget work.
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  Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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  Expansion of markets and women workers: case study of garment manufacturing in India

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This study, based on the garment manufacturing industry, suggests that in the context of dynamic industrial activity in a poor labour-surplus economy, discrimination against women can take place outside the labour market. For example, employment depends on education and skills, to which women have unequal access.
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  Building budgets from below

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  This paper investigates the degrees of freedom available to women (elected to self-government) to determine local and macro fiscal policies.
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  What does the State do for Indian women?

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2004

  The Indian state has always had policies specially targeted at women, such as family planning policies which included measures to reduce maternal mortality, literacy and education policies, and help for widows, tribals, Muslim women, and working women.

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