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  Gender, Citizenship and the Role of NGOs in ESCWA Countries Affected by Conflicts: Lebanon Case Study

  BRIDGE, 2000

  The Lebanese constitution guarantees the equality and human rights of all citizens. Yet laws based on the different confessional communities that exist in Lebanon, such as article 9, give authority to religious courts with regard to personal status issues including marriage, inheritance and divorce.
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  CEDAW Combined Second and Third Periodic Reports of States Parties: Indonesia

  United Nations, 1997

  This report outlines the status of women in Indonesia as of 1997, the last time Indonesia made a submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of CEDAW. Indonesia has had a Minister of State for the Role of Women since 1978. In the years leading up to 1997, the country experienced rapid economic growth that substantially changed the status of women.
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  The Municipality. A Challenge for Men's and Women's Equal Opportunities

  Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres, 2003

  This document is the final product of the research project 'Leadership, Women and Local Governments in Mexico'. It synthesises the main challenges that have to be overcome in order to make gender equality a reality.
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  Developing Gender-sensitive Local Services

  One World Action, 2000

  In many developing countries public services are poor or non-existent for the majority of people, and in others, including European countries, new forms of public service provision, including contracting-out and public-private partnerships are being considered.
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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  Report on Gender Budget Analysis of Taxation in Uganda, Focusing on Central Government Taxation carried out by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)

  BRIDGE, 2003

  While most work on gender-sensitive budgets focuses on expenditure, this FOWODE study in Uganda demonstrates the importance of a gendered tax policy impact assessment and evaluation. Any examination of government revenue tends to be difficult and often more politically sensitive than a gender analysis of expenditure.
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  Fiscal Policy, Accountability and Voice: the Example of Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives, background paper for the Human Development Report (HDR) 2002

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  Processes to bring broader public accountability for fiscal policy in ways that are sensitive to the needs of poor women and men are still in their infancy. Gender responsive budget initiatives (GRBIs) seek to widen governance and accountability structures by bringing women's voices to discussions on public spending, revenue-raising and debt.
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  Budgeting for Equity: Gender Budget Initiatives within a Framework of Performance Oriented Budgeting

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  Can performance-oriented budgeting serve as a framework for making budgets more gender responsive? This question is set in the context of recent public sector reforms to make public expenditure more 'results based' as part of the 'good governance' agenda.
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  Gender Budgets: What's in it for NGOs?

  BRIDGE, 2002

  Over the last seven years, there has been increasing interest in gender budget work worldwide. There are, however, big differences between the initiatives in different countries. In particular, in some cases the initiatives have been located inside government; in other cases in Parliament; and in yet others within civil society.

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