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  NGO Alternative Pre-Sessional Report on Israel's Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)

  2005

  Israel is responsible under international law to implement the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Palestinian Occupied Territories (OPT). Why, then, are violations of the Convention in the OPT widespread and increasing?
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  Women, girls, boys and men, different needs - equal opportunities

  Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2006

  When a disaster hits or a conflict erupts, humanitarian actors move quickly to save lives, meet basic needs and protect survivors. In this rush, the appeal to ?pay attention to gender issues? often falls on deaf ears and may seem irrelevant. This handbook argues that it is not!
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  Participatory Research and Development in Natural Resource Management: Towards Social and Gender Equity

  2005

  Meaningful participatory research in agriculture and natural resource management can help communities, governments, donors and the diverse social actors to engender a process of transformative approaches whereby marginalised groups can become empowered, negotiate space to improve their well-being and livelihoods, and manage the resources they depend on in a sustainable way.
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  Women as Managers of the Public Space: a Participatory Experience in Gender and Water in El Hormiguero, Colombia

  Universidad del Valle, 2003

  The dynamics of participation that develop in water projects to defend the collective interest are deeply affected by unequal gender relations. In the case of El Hormiguero, a rural area of Santiago de Cali, Colombia, the approach to participation highlighted the importance of the role played by women in creating and building up public spaces.
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  Participatory Action Learning in Practice: Experience of a Rapid Participatory Review of ANANDI, India

  ANANDI Participatory Review, 2003

  How can a Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) help to empower women? ANANDI, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Gujarat, India, successfully used PALS to support women from poor and marginalised groups to identify, analyse and solve their own problems.
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  The Role of Women in Water Management and Conservation in Jordan

  Gender and Water Alliance, 2006

  To what extent are Jordanian women currently participating in water management and conservation projects? This document provides an overview of various natural resource management projects in which women have or have not had significant involvement, and discusses their successes and failures.
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  Leaving Two Thirds Out of Development: Female Headed Households and Common Property Resources in the Highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia

  2006

  Periodic drought, unsustainable livestock populations, land tenure insecurities, land degradation, a prolonged and intense civil war and fragmentation of farms have had severe impacts on the population of the Ethiopian highlands. Increasingly young men have found it harder to obtain land to establish their own farms and homesteads.
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  Gender and climate change research workshop: what do we know? what do we need to find out?

  Genanet, 2005

  In 2005, 23 participants gathered to discuss gender and climate change related research, and its role and use in women's / gender related advocacy in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. Three questions were addressed: What do we need to know about gender and climate change to influence UNFCCC negotiations?
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  Initial Study of Lifestyles, Consumption Patterns: Do Women Leave a Smaller Ecological Footprint Than Men?

  Ministry of Sustainable Development, Sweden, 2006

  What links are there between gender, consumption and sustainable lifestyles? Are the 'lifestyles' and consumption patterns of Swedish women (and those internationally) a function of the greater responsibility they take for unpaid domestic and reproductive work?
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  Delivering as one: report of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel

  United Nations General Assembly, 2006

  In February 2006, the former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, established a High-Level Panel consisting of fifteen members to examine how to strengthen the UN system in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment.

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