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    Una oportunidad para reparar injusticias

    2014
    In El Salvador, women are criminalised for suffering the effects or complications of a non-hospital birth, premature or full-term, which often result in the death of the newborn.
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    Socorristas en Red - Socorro Rosa: A feminist practice for the right to choose in Argentina

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2014
    Abortion is illegal in Argentina, with three exceptions: when the pregnancy was the result of a rape or abuse against a woman with a mental disability, and when the pregnant woman’s life or health are at risk. However, even these cases often end up before the courts, and women continue to undergo surgical clandestine abortions that put their lives at risk.
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    Open Budgets Portal: Gender Budgeting

    World Bank, 2014
    This section of the World Bank website presents documentation on gender budgeting. The first headline showcases budget-related gender initiatives carried out by international organisations such as the World Bank and the United Nations (UN). The second headline presents a series of documents and papers related to gender budgeting.
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    Integrating gender equality dimensions into public financial management

    Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2010
    This issues brief is on the integration of a gender equality perspective into public financial management (PFM). It introduces the what, why, where and how of both PFM and gender-responsive budgeting (GRB); outlining opportunities and challenges for implementing GRB; and suggesting ways of using GRB techniques. This publication also includes a comprehensive list of material for further reading.
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    Gender Cafe: Gender Responsive Budgeting and Planning, a comparative perspective on Cameroon, Mali and Senegal

    2014
    In Cameroon, it is around a coffee and without taboo that partners and stakeholders discussed how to ensure gender responsive budgeting and planning (GRB/P) is put in place, and significantly contributes to building gender equality, not to mention, contributing to progress within the broader development efforts of African nations.
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    Gender Responsive Budgeting and Aid Effectiveness Knowledge Briefs

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2010
    This series investigated how gender responsive budgeting (GRB) tools and strategies had been used in the context of aid modalities, such as general budget support (GBS) and sector budget support (SBS). Research was carried out in ten countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia, India, Morocco, Nepal, Mozambique, Peru, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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    Integrating gender responsive budgeting into the aid effectiveness agenda reports

    UN Women, 2009
    These research reports (one composite report and ten country reports) have been generated as part of the UNIFEM programme, 'Integrating gender responsive budgeting into the aid effectiveness agenda'. The three-year programme funded by the European Commission (EC) was launched in 2008 and consists of research and programmatic technical assistance.
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    Gender budgeting as an instrument for educational attainment in Kenya

    2011
    Gender issues have continued to play a key role in the formulation of public policy across sectors worldwide. It is notable that gender gaps in many developing countries remain a challenge in the education sector. The purpose of policies is to guide action towards some identified practical goals; policies lose meaning when they remain unimplemented.
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    Guideline for gender sensitive budgeting on girls education in Ethiopia

    2009
    Development partners, including UNICEF, have been supporting the Ethiopian Government so that the country could achieve universal access to education by 2015.
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    Securing land rights in rural communities of Nigeria: policy approach to the problem of gender inequality

    2013
    In Africa, the pursuit of gender equality in inheritance rights remains one of the most difficult challenges due to its entrenched patriarchal characteristics. This is also the case in the rural communities of South-Eastern Nigeria.

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