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    “A woman should not be the boss when a man is present”: gender and poverty in southern Mozambique

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2010
    This study examines the variations and complexity of gender relations in southern Mozambique. It notes that the region recently witnessed profound processes of socio-economic change, including an extensive male labour migration and a “feminisation” of agriculture.
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    Gender and media progress study: Southern Africa

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2010
    This report monitors the relation between gender issues and media content in 14 Southern African countries, providing quantitative, sex-disaggregated data on media coverage and topics. In addition, it examines the underlying gender dynamics within the institutional structures of the media. The key findings of the paper are as follows:
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    Moving beyond gender as usual

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
    In the 1980s, at the beginning of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, it was estimated that about a third of all people infected worldwide were women. After just one decade this had risen to more than half and now today in sub-Saharan Africa, 61% of all people infected with HIV are female. This report examines national policies and then focuses on how three influential donors, the U.S.
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    Gender policies and feminisation of poverty in Mozambique

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    This study is the first in a series of three on gender policies and feminisation of poverty in Mozambique, to be carried out in the period 2008-2010. Specifically, the document looks at gender and poverty in Mozambique, and gender policies an institutional framework.The research questions for this paper are:
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    Women, water and sanitation

    Pambazuka, 2008
    Women and children are the first to suffer from the disruption of water supply and the provision of sanitation services. This collection of four essays examines different issues faced in the provision of clean water and sanitation supplies and how the effectiveness of these services directly impacts on women’s lives.
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    Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis

    Development in Practice, 2008
    This issue of the journal has a special focus on “Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis” , and aims to add value to the discussion of methodological, practical, philosophical, political, and institutional issues involved in using gender-sensitive participatory methods. The articles included are:
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    Gender and landmines - from concept to practice

    Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines, 2008
    The relevance of gender has taken time to impose itself clearly to anti landmine programmers, decision-makers, implementers, donors, and stakeholders working in the area of mine action.The main treaties regulating general mine action activities (the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its additional Protocol II) are gender blind and do not explicitly discuss the
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    How to end child marriage: action strategies for prevention and protection

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007
    Girls who marry as children (younger than 18 years of age) are often more susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and obstetric fistula. Lacking status and power, these girls are often subjected to domestic violence, sexual abuse and social isolation.
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    Sexual violence against women during conflict: the need for a coordinated effort

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Systematic campaigns of rape in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s have drawn international attention to the abuse of women in times of war. But the number of victims who receive redress or support for rebuilding their lives remains small.
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    New insights on preventing child marriage: a global analysis of factors and programs

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007
    One in seven girls in the developing world marries before the age of fifteen. Nearly half of the 331 million girls in developing countries are expected to marry by their 20th birthday. At this rate, 100 million more girls—or 25,000 more girls every day—will become child brides in the next decade.

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