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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 review: mainstreaming gender and aids in the development portfolio of the Norwegian Embassy in Zambia

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009

  This report is a joint gender and HIV/AIDS mainstreaming review, produced upon a request from the Norwegian Embassy in Lusaka. The target of the report is to see how gender and AIDS concerns could be better mainstreamed in the Embassy portfolio. Furthermore, four different programmes were selected for the review, covering relevant areas for cooperation.
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  Facilitator’s manual on planning for gender sensitive multi-sectoral response to HIV/AIDS initiatives

  National AIDS Council, Zambia, 2005

  This manual is a learning instrument and a reference tool for beginners. It is a step-by step handbook to guide the development of local HIV/AIDS action plans. It also details how to build the capacity of trainers in order for them to systematically integrate and mainstream HIV/AIDS into all developmental programmes.
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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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  Mirror on the media: gender and advertising in Southern Africa

  Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2007

  Covering 1,650 radio, television, print and billboard advertisements in Mauritius, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, this study establishes how women and men are represented and portrayed in advertising. Key findings of the study include:
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  UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2007

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2007

  This Humanitarian Action Report 2007 outlines UNICEF’s appeal for children and women in 33 emergencies around the world.
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  Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships: experiences from Africa

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  In line with the increasing emphasis on aid effectiveness, including promoting new partnerships for channeling aid, this paper reports on the extent to which gender equality is and should be part of this agenda.
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  So this is democracy?: 2004 report on the state of media freedom in Southern Africa

  Media Institute for Southern Africa, 2004

  This report gives an overview of the state of the media in Southern African countries, namely Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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  Re-thinking gender mainstreaming in African NGOs and communities

  Oxfam, 2005

  This article looks at the reasons for resistance to gender mainstreaming initiatives among local NGOs and communities in Zambia, Rwanda, Uganda and the Gambia.
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  Peanut butter: a sticky problem for women farmers

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Peanut butter production is labour intensive and often associated with poor hygiene and contamination amongst retailers. These problems limit its appeal to formal markets and reduce the earning potential of the women who make it.

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