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    2007 Federal Budget Overview: Not a Budget for Women

    2007
    Who benefits most from Canada's 2007 Federal Budget? According to this report, it is high earning men with a stay-at-home partner or wife. The report shows how women in Canada are affected differently than men by tax and spending policies of governments as a result of their varying labour market opportunities, family and community responsibilities, and levels of economic security.
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    Disentangling The Web of Women's Poverty and Exclusion

    Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    The Canadian Government boasts eight years of budget surpluses but still there are increasing numbers of people living in poverty.
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    Gender Equality Now or Never: A New UN Agency for Women

    Office of the UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, 2006
    How must the United Nations (UN) change in order to deliver better outcomes for women? The UN's current mix of low-level departments, divisions and committees working on gender has been inadequate in pushing the gender equality agenda forward.
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    Recommendations Contained in the Report of the High-level Panel on United Nations System-Wide Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Environment

    United Nations, 2007
    In November 2006, the United Nations (UN) published 'Delivering As One', a report examining how the UN can achieve greater coherence through changes in the its structures and systems. In this six-page document, the new UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, responds to the report's suggestions. He states his full agreement with the need for a stronger and more dynamic gender architecture.
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    Gender Equality: At the Heart of Development. Why the Role of Women is Crucial to Ending World Poverty

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    How does the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) plan to ensure that women and girls are at the heart of development? This booklet introduces DFID's 'Gender Equality Action Plan' which sets out how the UK government plans to make faster progress towards gender equality.
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    Financial Law Project 2006. Gender Report

    Ministry of Finance and Privatization, Morocco, 2005
    In Morocco, the introduction of a Gender Report annexed to the 2006 Economic and Financial Report is one of the outcomes of the budget reform, which is moving towards a results-oriented and gender-sensitive management of public funds.
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    Moving Ahead: Gender budgeting in Sweden

    Ministry of Industry Employment and Communications, Sweden, 2006
    In 2004, the Swedish government launched a five-year Plan for Gender Mainstreaming in government offices, setting objectives in four main areas: management and control, methods and procedures, training, and co-ordination.
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    Delivering as one: report of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel

    United Nations General Assembly, 2006
    In February 2006, the former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, established a High-Level Panel consisting of fifteen members to examine how to strengthen the UN system in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment.
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    CIDA's Framework for Assessing Gender Equality Results

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2005
    To what extent do CIDA's development outcomes reflect its policy commitment to gender equality? This document outlines a framework for assessing the impact of CIDA's investments in development programmes from a gender perspective, including investments in direct programming, responsive programming, and core funding of institutions.
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    Facilitating Women's Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the ILO's Research and Support Programmes

    International Labour Organization, 2003
    Women are less likely to be entrepreneurs than men and work in different sectors which are perceived as less important to economic growth and development. However, women's entrepreneurship may, if nurtured, contribute significantly to economic growth. Existing mainstream government policies and programmes do not adequately support the specific needs of women entrepreneurs.

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