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    Experts Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) in Selected African Countries: Proceedings

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    Through presentations and working groups, participants from governments, civil society and donor agencies explored conceptual issues around gender and poverty, how to engender Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the extent to which gender-sensitive budget initiatives are integrated into these.
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    Governing for Equity, Gender, Citizenship and Governance

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2003
    This publication comes out of the Gender, Citizenship and Governance programme of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands. The project aimed to develop good practice in changing governance institutions to promote gender equality, enhance citizen participation and build accountability of public administration systems.
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    Gender Budgets and Beyond: Feminist Fiscal Policy in the Context of Globalisation

    BRIDGE, 2003
    This article is part of a special issue of Oxfam's Gender and Development journal entitled Women Reinventing Globalisation, bringing together insights drawn from the Ninth International Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). It focuses on the gender-blindness of macro-economic and fiscal policies.
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    Gender profile: Peru

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
    What is the condition of women in Peru? This gender profile by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offers a statistical overview of the condition of urban and rural women with respect to unemployment, status in the workplace, life expectancy and working and living conditions. Poverty is an ongoing concern and half the population continues to subsist below the poverty line.
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    Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

    1998
    How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.
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    BRIDGE Report 67: Gender and PRSPs - with Experiences from Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    How gender-sensitive were the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) processes in Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique? This report finds that the poverty assessments did not provide sufficient gendered information to ensure that the PRSPs were based on a thorough understanding of what drives poverty. The collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data needs to be prioritised.
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    United Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM) contribution to the World Bank and IMF PRSP preview

    World Bank, 2001
    The following feedback from UNIFEM on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) review is based on assessments done by non-governmental organisations, consultants and national women’s machineries in countries with both interim and full PRSPs.Areas of concern include:one of the key areas where there is a singular lack of gender dimension in the PRSPs is that of data collection to infor
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    Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2003
    At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 governments pledged collective responsibility to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first being to halve world poverty by 2015, and the third to "Promote gender equality and empower women". This book provides evidence as to why promoting gender equality is essential for halving world poverty and realising all eight MDGs.
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    Failing Women, Sustaining Poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Why have so few Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) taken women's poverty seriously? To answer the question, this paper draws on PRSP processes from Tanzania, Bolivia, Malawi and Yemen. As elsewhere, the PRSPs fail to address gender in a coherent and consistent way. If addressed, gender issues feature only under sections on health and education rather than being mainstreamed.

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