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  Gender Audit 2003 Elections and Issues in Women's Political Participation in Nigeria

  Women's Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, 2003

  In almost all countries, women have the right to vote and are eligible for elections. In reality, women's representation in public life is still generally very low due to factors ranging from the socio-cultural to the religious, the social and the political. Nigeria is no exception. It has never had a female president, nor are there any female governors.
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  Nigeria: Using Gender Mainstreaming Processes to Help Protect Drinking Water Sources of the Obudu Plateau Communities in Northern Cross River State

  United Nations, 2005

  How can gender-sensitive approaches to natural resource management be implemented, particularly in contexts were women do not traditionally participate in such activities? In Nigeria, the construction of a tourist resort on the Obudu plateau led to deforestation and exacerbated pre-existing pressures on water resources and the environment.
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  Empowering young women to lead change

  United Nations Population Fund, 2006

  This manual is designed to enable young women to prepare and facilitate training on a host of issues that are important to them.
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  Politics of the Possible - Gender Mainstreaming and Organisational Change: Experiences from the Field

  Oxfam, 2006

  What actually happens to organisations during gender and organisational change endeavours? This book takes an in-depth look at the experience of seven Novib partner organisations in the Middle East and South Asia which undertook a 'gender focus programme'.
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  Consultations with the Poor: A Study to Inform The World Development Report 2000/01 On Poverty and Development, Ethiopia Report

  World Bank, 1999

  This national report on Ethiopia was produced as part of a global research effort entitled Consultations with the Poor, designed to inform the World Development Report 2000/1 on Poverty and Development.
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  BRIDGE Report 40: Gender and empowerment: definitions, approaches and implications for policy

  BRIDGE, 1997

  What is women's empowerment' If women are empowered, does that mean that men have less power' Empowerment has become a new 'buzzword' in international development language but is often not well understood. This paper explains the different understandings of empowerment, and how empowerment strategies should be designed.
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  Towards multiparty system in Uganda: the effect on female representation in Politics

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006

  How much leverage do women in politics have in Uganda? Has the new multiparty system that is in power been beneficial to the defence and promotion of women's rights and to the women's movement? In this paper, the author considers the position of women in Ugandan politics, and analyses the effects of the electoral and multiparty system on women's political participation.
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  Meaning and Contents of a Legislative Agenda for Developing Women's Rights

  E-Mujeres.net, 2006

  This report analyses the progress made by Latin American and Caribbean countries in the achievement of women's rights at constitutional, legal and institutional levels.
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  Women's Access to Markets: Vulnerabilities and Constraints

  2003

  Traditionally markets have been off-limits to women in Bengali society. In present day Bangladesh, culture-based gender bias compounded by poverty continues to hinder women's access to markets. In rural areas in particular, women who go to the market are viewed as ?bad? women.
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  Participatory monitoring: guidelines for practitioners in the fight against human trafficking

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Participatory Monitoring (PM) tools are used as far as possible in the International Labour Organisation's project to combat trafficking in children and women in the Mekong sub-region. This toolkit, based on materials field-tested by project staff, has been designed to help monitor the project's progress, track trafficking and identify good practice.

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