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  Little Equals

  Espace Femmes, 2005

  Les p'tits egaux' is a tool book for the promotion of equality between girls and boys aged between 5 and 9. It is an adaptation from a training programme developed by the Canadian Directorate of Public Health Montreal-Centre in 1997. Its activities show that women, just as men, can play a great role in the society.
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  Millennium Development Goals: Bangladesh Progress Report (Extract on MDG3)

  United Nations Country Team in Bangladesh, 2005

  How far is Bangladesh from achieving the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) on gender equality and women's empowerment? Female enrolment in primary school has increased steadily since 1992. However, a large disparity continues to exist both at the tertiary level of education and in terms of male and female literacy rates.
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  Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Thirty-first session: Consideration of Fifth Periodic Report of Bangladesh. Summary records of the 653rd and 654th meetings

  2004

  Resources allocated to the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs in Bangladesh have increased fivefold in the last three years. This was one of the achievements flagged up by the delegation from Bangladesh as they presented their Fifth Periodic Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
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  Shadow Report to the Fifth Periodic Report of the Government of Bangladesh

  Steps Towards Development, 2004

  Has the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh delivered on their promises as a signatory of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
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  Girls and science: a training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2006

  What practical guidance and training is available for educators to help redress the under-representation and under-achievement of girls in science and technology subjects in African countries?
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  Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education

  Oxfam, 2005

  This volume combines policy analysis and empirically based studies on gender, education, and development. It considers the significance of gender equality in education, and the ways in which gender inequality relates to other sources of division and conflict in society.
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  Improving Women's Participation in Further Education

  World Bank, 2003

  Are there many women in further education in Niger? What steps have or must be taken to ensure that more women join university? Rates of access to further education are very low in Niger (1.9%) and only 0.34% of women have access to university. This paper looks at the case of Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey, the only non-religious university in Niger.
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  Mainstreaming Gender through Sector Wide Approaches in Education: India Case Study

  Cambridge Education Consultants, 2000

  What opportunities have arisen for mainstreaming gender into education as a result of the shift to sector wide approaches (SWAps)? This case study of the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) in India is part of a study initiated by the Working Party on Gender Equality (WP-GEN) of the Development Committee of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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  Women in Bolivarian Venezuela Part 2: The Bolivarian Response to the Feminization of Poverty in Venezuela

  Venezuela Analysis, 2005

  Innovative social and economic strategies are necessary to combat the growing incidence and severity of poverty among women in Venezuela. Legislative change to fight gender inequality, a root cause of the predominantly female poverty, is only the start.
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  Literacy, Gender and Social Agency: Adventures in Empowerment. A Research Report for ActionAid UK

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  The notion of 'empowering' poor and marginalised women has a great deal of commonsense appeal. It may seem obvious that anyone would benefit from increased self-confidence, the ability to act effectively in the public sphere, to control one's income, to plan for the future.

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