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    Gender and community mobilisation for urban water infrastructure investment in Southern Nigeria

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
    In the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Benin City, the 2006 census reported that just 26% and 5% of households had access to treated piped water respectively, with a significant informal water delivery sector working alongside, or in place of, public utilities, community wells, or private bore-holes.
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    Sexuality and Empowerment: An Intimate Connection

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2011
    What does sexuality have to do with women’s empowerment? Research from Pathways of Women’s Empowerment shows that sexuality affects women’s political and economic empowerment in a number of important ways.
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    The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

    Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative, 2013
    The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a new survey-based index designed to measure the empowerment, agency, and inclusion of women in the agricultural sector. The WEAI was initially developed as a tool to reflect women’s empowerment that may result from the United States government’s Feed the Future Initiative, which commissioned the development of the WEAI.
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    Changing their world: concepts and practices of women’s movements, 2nd edition

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011
    This collection of four case studies of marginalised women's attempts to organise and empower themselves and others is the 2011 update to AWID's Changing their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements. Covering sexuality, conflict, disability and sex workers, the case studies highlight the origins, structures and strategies adopted by feminist movements in challenging contexts.
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    Straregizing for change in time of crisis: why not start from women's agency?

    2009
    Written by Bianca Maria Pomeranzi, gender advisor for the Italian Agency for Development, this article is a call for reform in how the issue of gender is addressed in development. The article begins with an introduction of the continuing global economic downturn, suggesting that the risks posed to developmental progress make the case for reform all the more necessary.
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    Paradox and promise in the Philippines: a joint country gender assessment

    Asian Development Bank, 2008
    This joint country gender assessment, launched in October 2007, was led by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with cooperation from the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the European Commission (EC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations
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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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    Literature review: The efficacy of women’s social movements to include chronically poor women and give voice to their demands

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
    Social movements are known to struggle to include, or be representative of, chronically poor women.
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    Global summit on grassroots women’s leadership and governance

    Huairou Commission, 2011
    “Institutions of governance, of security and of human rights must massively increase their engagement with grassroots women’s organizations,” was the message Anne Marie Goetz of UN Women conveyed to a diverse audience of women from 22 countries – made up of local actors and global policy-makers – at the Huairou Commission Global Summit on Grassroots Women’s Leadership and Governance, held March 3-
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    Climate Change and Gender: Economic Empowerment of Women through Climate Mitigation and Adaptation?

    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2010
    How is women’s economic empowerment linked to successful climate mitigation and adaptation? Women

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