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    Estudio Evaluativo Participativo de Género

    Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán, 1998
    This document evaluates the progress of gender work in the agrarian sector in Peru. It mainly focuses on a project called PRONAMACHCS (Proyecto Nacional de Manejo de Cuencas y Conservación de Suelos - National project for soil conservation and basin management).
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    Opportunities and Constraints in Agriculture: A gendered analysis of cocoa production in Southern Cameroon

    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2009
    Cocoa is one of Cameroon’s most important agricultural commodities and exported cash crops, and women are particularly active in the sector. In order to gather more gender sensitive information, GTZ conducted a survey among 1000 Cameroonian male and female producers.
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    2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development Women’s Control Over Economic Resources and Access to Financial Resources, Including Microfinance

    Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2009
    Long-standing inequalities in the gender distribution of economic and financial resources have placed women at a disadvantage relative to men in their capability to participate in, contribute to and benefit from broader processes of development. This survey provides an overview of the gender equality implications of economic growth, monetary, fiscal and trade policies and capital flows.
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    What do aid architecture and new aid modalities have to do with gender?

    2009
    What do the new ways of delivering aid have to do with gender? A great deal, answers this Working Paper. In theory women can benefit just as much as men from these new aid modalities as outlined in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action. However structural inequalities facing women mean that they do not necessarily do so.
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    Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Nepal

    United Nations Population Fund, 2007
    This review maps progress on gender equality in Nepal since a 1997 study on Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women was commissioned and published. The review takes into account newly emerging issues such as exclusion and poverty, in addition to gender. It also sets out to review the government of Nepal's progress in gender mainstreaming andwomen's empowerment. The findings include:
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    Poverty Pathways: Ethnic Minority Women's Livelihoods

    Fawcett Society, 2009
    Forty percent of ethnic minority women live in poverty in the UK - twice the proportion of White women. Poverty extends to more than a third of Black women and almost two thirds of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women.
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    Mind the gap: HIV and AIDS and older people in Africa

    HelpAge International, 2008
    At a time in their lives when many older people might expect to be cared for by their own children, a growing number, particularly women, are taking on caring roles for younger adults living with HIV, and for orphans and vulnerable children.
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    Men and care in the context of HIV and AIDS: structure, political will and greater male involvement

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2008
    What drives the enormous burden of AIDS-related care which falls on women and girls? What strategies are needed to reduce this burden? Rather than focusing only on ways to increase men's participation in shouldering a more equitable share of the burden of AIDS-related care, this insightful paper starts out with an analysis of the structural forces that affect how AIDS care is provided.
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    Gender, Governance and the Feminisation of Poverty, chapter 4 in Women's Political Participation and Good Governance: 21st Century Challenges

    United Nations Development Programme, 2000
    What is the 'feminisation of poverty', and will 'good governance' serve to reduce it? Similarly, will poverty reduction necessarily help to advance gender equality? Principles around promoting choice and participation for women and for men are increasingly visible in governance agendas. But there is a tendency to promote participation for women in the same way as for men.
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    Women's Right to Land: Voices from Grassroots Movement and Working Women's Alliance from Gujarat

    BRIDGE, 2008
    Studies have shown that a key factor associated with rural poverty is access to land. Yet in many parts of India there remains a huge gender gap in land ownership and control - with significant implications for women's economic and social status.

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