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  Gender and Economic Empowerment in Africa, 8th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum, Berlin, Germany, 22-23 May 2007

  Africa Partnership Forum, 2007

  There are multiple obstacles to the economic empowerment of women in Africa. For example, limited access to productive resources such as land, seed and fertiliser means that women may be unable to benefit from the expansion of trade in agricultural products.
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  Transcending boundaries to improve the food security of HIV-affected households in rural Uganda: a case study

  Population Council, USA, 2007

  Realising food security for all is a complex task that requires attention to agricultural, nutritional, technological, and gender issues. This case study describes the experience of Partners for Food Security (PAFOSE) in Tororo, Uganda, a multi-organisation partnership aimed at better integrating district level organisations to identify and promote ways to improve food security.
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  All in Diary

  2007

  The 'All In Diary' is a practical tool for field-based humanitarian workers. It aims to improve the quality and appropriateness of relief work through: increasing awareness of good humanitarian practice; providing easy and timely access to relevant information and resources; and facilitating organisational learning and programme continuity.
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  Gender Database for Agriculture and Resource Management Policies in Pacific Island Countries

  1999

  In order to be effective, Women in Development initiatives need to be based on reliable data and area- specific information on gender roles in agricultural production and other contexts. This report calls for better gender-disaggregated information on the Pacific Region, with an emphasis on Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa.
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  Any Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?

  2005

  Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.
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  Gender dimensions of intellectual property and traditional medicinal knowledge

  The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2007

  Trade in medicinal and aromatic plants is big business. How can Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect female practitioners of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge (TMK)?
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  Women and food crises: how US food aid policies can better support their struggles

  ActionAid International, 2007

  Women are often at the centre of food crises and are disproportionately affected by hunger, yet their important role in providing solutions is often overlooked.
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  Monitoring & Evaluation Programme of the African Plan of Action to Accelerate the Implementation of the Dakar & Beijing Platforms for Action Part I: A Guide to Data Collection for Impact Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming on the Status of African Women

  2004

  How can we measure the impact on the status of women of the Beijing and Dakar Platforms for Action in African countries ten years after the Platforms were established? This manual aims to give clear guidance to gender impact assessment evaluators on how to carry out such monitoring.
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  Socio-economic and Gender Sensitive Indicators in the Management of Natural Resources

  2003

  In spite of the many recent UN system-wide commitments and mandates to evaluate progress made in gender mainstreaming, an assessment of the current status of socio-economic and gender-sensitive indicators in the management of natural resources revealed an almost complete lack of practical experience in this area.
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  Gender Indicators

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  Gender equity indicators measure conditions or situations that affect men and women differently; signal changes in power relations between women and men over time; determine access, use and control of resources and distribution of costs and benefits; and point out changes in living conditions and in the roles of women and men over time.

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