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  Empowering Women: Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa

  World Bank, 2012

  This World Bank publication is the first study to look systematically across Sub-Saharan Africa to examine the impacts of property rights on women’s economic empowerment. The book examines family, inheritance, and land laws.
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  EQUALITY for Peace and Democracy (EPD)

  EQUALITY for Peace and Democracy (EPD) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to empowering women and youth at the community and policy levels in Afghanistan.
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  Women, peace and security in Afghanistan: looking back to move forward

  EQUALITY for Peace and Democracy, 2014

  As Afghanistan enters the Transformation Decade, progress in the areas of peace, reconciliation, and security is tenuous and dormant. This project revisits the Peace Process Roadmap to 2015 from the High Peace Council as a means of looking back in order to determine how to move forward as Afghanistan undertakes critical political and security transitions.
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  Gender Equality, UN Coherence and You

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2014

  What are the roles and responsibilities of UN agencies working for gender equality?
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  Gendered dimensions of land and rural livelihoods: the case of new settler farmer displacement at Nuanetsi Ranch, Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe

  Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2012

  The biofuel boom has become a core issue in Zimbabwean land and development debates. Biofuels require large tracts of land for production; and the land acquisition programmes by the various state, non-state actors and individuals have been termed ‘land grabbing’.
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  UN Women website: Gender Responsive Budgeting

  UN Women, 2012

  How can gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) initiatives create enabling policy frameworks, build capacity and strengthen monitoring mechanisms to support accountability to women?
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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); outlines opportunities and challenges for implementing GRB; suggests ways of using GRB techniques; includes a comprehensive list of material for further reading.
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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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  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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  Religious interpretations, gender discrimination and politics in Africa: case study of Nigeria

  2013

  How do religious interpretations shape gender conceptions and impact women’s participation politics in Nigeria? This study addresses these issues, focusing on the participation of women in Nigeria’s 2011 general election.

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