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    Manual for Gender Mainstreaming: Social Inclusion and Social Protection Policies

    European Commission, 2007
    What do EU policy makers need to do to mainstream gender into social inclusion and social protection policies? This manual provides policy makers with a hands-on tool to aid this process. It suggests several factors to consider when designing social protection policies.
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    Mainstreaming Gender in Social Protection for the Informal Economy

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2008
    How can the money spent on social protection measures make more of a difference to the lives of women workers? This book explores the gendered dimensions of risk, vulnerability and insecurity, and the subsequent need for a gender perspective in the design of social protection measures.
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    Manual for Gender Mainstreaming of Employment Policies

    European Commission, 2007
    Gender equality is a fundamental right, a common value of the European Union (EU), and a necessary condition for the achievement of the EU objectives of growth, employment and social cohesion. So begins this manual outlining a gender mainstreaming approach.
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    Reducing the Burden of HIV and AIDS Care on Women and Girls

    Voluntary Services Overseas, 2006
    Community and home-based care, delivered with little support from the public health system, is currently the key response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic globally. Due to traditional gender norms and unequal gender relations, it is women and girls who generally assume primary responsibility for providing this care, whilst possibly being HIV-positive, and often needing care themselves.
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    Expanding the Care Continuum for HIV/AIDS: Bringing Carers into Focus

    Population Council, 2004
    Who cares for the carers? This question is at the heart of this paper, which sets out to provide a review of existing literature on unpaid care work in the context of HIV and AIDS. What it found was a resounding silence; that the role of women in HIV care outside the health sector is largely taken for granted by policymakers and programme planners.

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