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    Gender and Society: Georgia

    United Nations Development Programme, 2008
    This report considers ways in which gender inequalities are manifested in Georgia, both in the public sphere of politics, labour and social attitudes and the private spheres of the home and community. The report found that women and men do not have equal opportunities in Georgia, and are expected to take on socially accepted female and male roles.
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    Gender and climate finance

    Heinrich Böll Foundation North America, 2012
    Global climate finance has an increasing number of funds and actors. Since climate change impacts men and women differently, there also needs to be an increasing awareness of gender in these funding mechanisms. Additionally, each gender has different adaptive and mitigative capabilities to respond to these impacts.
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    Training Manual on Gender and Climate Change

    International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2009
    Until recently, those involved in climate change programmes and policy development assumed that men and women experience climate change in similar ways. But recognition is now growing that the effects will be disproportionately felt by the world’s poorest people, a group in which women are overrepresented, and existing patterns of gender disadvantage are likely to be magnified.
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    Los derechos de las mujeres en clave feminista: Experiencias del Cladem

    Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru, 2009
    In 2009, the Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights) (CLADEM) celebrated 20 years of fighting for women’s rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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    'Guía de capacitación en derechos humanos de las mujeres. Tejiendo el cambio',San José, Costa Rica

    2009
    This document is in Spanish only.English title: ‘Regional Gender and Climate Change Workshop’, Final Report, Hotel Bugainvillea, Heredia, Costa Rica
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    Everything counts! Valuing environmental initiatives with a gender equity perspective in Latin America

    The World Conservation Union, 2004
    For more than two years preceding the publication of this book, through the contributions of researchers from Latin America, and the financial support of the International Development Research Center (IDRC), the The World Conservation Union researched and collected very diverse case studies that highlight how gender is an essential consideration in natural resource conservation and sustainability
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    Understanding Poverty from a Gender Perspective

    Women and Development Unit, 2004
    "The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) proposes a definition of poverty as a multidimensional problem: “the result of a social and economic process — with cultural and political components — in which people individually and collectively find themselves deprived of goods and essential opportunities for different reasons and processes.” This
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    Igualdad de Género en la Cooperación para el Desarrollo. Recomendaciones de los Donantes para los Proyectos.

    PROEQUIDAD, 2000
    How committed are donors to gender equality issues' Multilateral and bilateral donors are increasingly supporting development processes aimed at achieving democracy and equality in society and have worked to renew their mandates and policies to reflect such will.
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    Herramientas para Construir Equidad entre Mujeres y Hombres, Manual de Capacitacion

    PROEQUIDAD, 1999
    Development projects must be sensitive to the different realities experienced by men and women, both in the household and in the community. This is the only way inequalities suffered by women for lack of opportunities in personal development, access to resources and participation in decision-making at a personal and collective level can be made visible and addressed.
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    Género y Cambio en la Cultura Organizacional

    PROEQUIDAD, 2000
    Gender mainstreaming in development must be applied to projects and programmes as well as within development organisations. However, in order to be sustainable and profound gender mainstreaming within organisations must be applied to mental models, practices and behaviours, structures, regulations and procedures.

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