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    Oxfam Australia's Sri Lanka Gender Impact Study: Executive Summary

    Oxfam Australia, 2009
    Oxfam Australia has been working for 30 years with Sri Lankan communities to build peace, develop sustainable livelihoods and promote the rights of women and marginalised groups.
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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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    A user’s guide to measuring gender-sensitive basic service delivery

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2009
    Gender, governance and basic services are inextricably linked. A functioning democratic system of governance enables people to express their needs through the political system, and ensures that the system responds appropriately to their needs. This Guide reviews the role of basic services in development and in relation to the Millennium Developmen Goals (MDGs).
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    Engendering Local Democracy: The Impact of Quotas for Women in India's Panchayats

    Routledge, 2006
    Has women's increased participation in local governance institutions resulted in outcomes that contribute towards gender equality in India?
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    Mainstreaming Gender in Global Governance

    SAGE Publications, 2002
    The rhetorical acceptance of gender mainstreaming by various international organisations obscures considerable diversity in when and how mainstreaming is applied. The paper is divided into three parts. The first outlines a social-movement approach to the study of gender mainstreaming.
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    Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives

    Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
    To understand the potential for governance to empower women and lead to greater gender equality, it is crucial to pay greater attention to governance institutions and processes beyond the state.
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    South Africa Local Government Gender Action Plan Manual

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2008
    This manual is a product of the Training of Trainer (ToT) workshop organised by Gender Links in 2007. The workshop itself brought together representatives from local government staff from four countries, Lesotho, Mauritius, Namibia and South Africa. The manual is designed to complement the South African government's Gender Policy Framework for Local Government.
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    Political Learning through Women's Experiences in Local Governments: The Case of Central American Path to Learning

    2008
    Although women in Latin America have only relatively recently been involved in decision-making positions in local governments, they have been able to accumulate valuable experience and knowledge in municipal management and implementation of public policies with a gender perspective.
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    Gender and Decentralised Governance

    Institute of Federalism, 2005
    Why is decentralisation increasingly common? Does it, or can it, serve gender equality goals? This overview and annotated bibliography defines the concepts of governance, decentralisation and gender, describes various challenges in engendering decentralised governance and highlights some donor responses to these issues.
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    Political Reform to Increase Quotas for Women in Parliament: The Use of Electoral Gender Quotas in Rwanda

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2007
    Electoral gender quotas accelerated greater representation of women in the Rwandan Parliament, with 48.8 per cent of parliamentary seats, the highest in the world after the first ever multiparty elections. While the use of electoral gender quotas is a useful and important mechanism, multiple factors produced the Rwandan success.

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