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    Website: IV International Conference on Gender and Disasters

    Gender and Disaster Network, 2012
    This is the official website of the IV International Conference on Gender and Disasters, which took place in Bógota, Colombia in May 2012. The purpose of this initiative is to find strategies to reduce gender inequalities that make women more vulnerable in disaster contexts, and to highlight successful experiences of integrating a gender perspective in disaster risk mitigation.
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    Empowerment of women and gender mainstreaming in rural microfinance.

    International Training Centre & International Labour Organization, 2011
    Women own just one percent of the world’s resources. This startling fact is the result of a complex web of social and political gender asymmetries in access to and control over assets, markets and information.
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    Acting together: an assessment of the Philippine Official Development Assistance GAD Network

    Philippines-Canada Cooperation Office, 2010
    This paper documents the 2009/2010 review of several initiatives of the Official Development Assistance Gender and Development (ODA-GAD) Network of the past eight years. In order to inform future planning, the assessment looks at results from the various ODA-GAD Network initiatives, identifying progress and areas for improvement.
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    Enhancing competitiveness through gender mainstreaming: the role and status of women and men in MSME development in the Philippines

    Private Sector Promotion (SMEDSEP) Program, 2010
    Women are a driving force for competitiveness in the Philippines. For example, more women than men start up businesses. The stage is now set to heighten the productivity levels of women, using gender mainstreaming. This 110-page document looks at the roles and status of Filipina/o women and men in micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) development.
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    Gender equality monitoring report

    Philippines-Canada Cooperation Office, 2010
    This Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Philippines Program monitoring report highlights the gender-specific improvements, issues and challenges of its projects between July 2009 and June 2010.
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    Defying the Odds: Lessons learnt from Men for Gender Equality Now

    African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2012
    In 2001, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) took the first steps towards creating an African network of male activists against gender-based violence. In a regional consultative meeting which was organised by FEMNET that year, Kenyan men came together to form a local initiative “Men for Gender Equality Now” (MEGEN).
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    Constructive men’s engagement in reproductive health: for themselves, their partners, and their communities: Facilitator Guide

    2012
    Facilitator Guide Workshop Audience: This training is for program staff working in reproductive health, HIV, and/or safe motherhood who want to build their skills to integrate gender into their programming.
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    Gender and climate adaptation: tools for community-level action in Nigeria

    Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team, 2011
    In Africa, as in many parts of the world, the impact of climate change is visible and widespread...Such impacts combined with high dependence on natural resources and rain-fed agriculture mean that many African countries, including Nigeria, face high vulnerability in the coming decades.
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    Governing climate funds: what will work for women?

    Gender Action, 2011
    As the international community mobilizes in response to global climate changes, climate change mechanisms must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world's most vulnerable populations.
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    Climate change adaptation from a gender perspective: a cross-cutting analysis of development-policy instruments

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2009
    Gender concerns and adaptation approaches need to be mainstreamed into the processes of climate and development frameworks and policies, as they are currently largely blind to both issues. An analysis of climate-related frameworks and policies showed disappointing results – specifically, the EU Commission

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