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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 9: Gender and Participation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
    This issue of in brief traces synergies and tensions between gender and participation in development practice. The lead article reminds development practitioners that institutions need to mainstream gender-aware and participatory approaches into their own work to ensure that development is truly equitable.
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    Gender and Participation: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
    By directing practitioners to useful information sources and examples on gender and participatory approaches, the Supporting Resources Collection seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how gender sensitive, participatory development has been and can be achieved.
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    Gender and Participation: Overview Report

    2010
    This Overview Report looks at convergences between approaches to gender and to participation, how these have been played out, and how they have been or could be constructively integrated into projects, programmes, policies, and institutions.
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    Violence against women and girls: a compendium of monitoring and evaluation indicators

    MEASURE Evaluation, 2008
    Violence against women and girls (VAW/G) is increasingly being seen as a critical issue to be addressed in the international arena. However, the dearth of rigorous evaluations of VAW initiatives has resulted in a lack of data to support recommendations for best practices in the field. In particular, many programmes lack quality systems designed to monitor and evaluate their progress.
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    What do aid architecture and new aid modalities have to do with gender?

    2009
    What do the new ways of delivering aid have to do with gender? A great deal, answers this Working Paper. In theory women can benefit just as much as men from these new aid modalities as outlined in the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action. However structural inequalities facing women mean that they do not necessarily do so.
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    Documentary: Stories of Change

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2009
    A testament to the resilience of human spirit, Stories of Change is a documentary about the lives of five women aging from 16 to 60, coming from different walks of life, from different professions, religions and regions of Bangladesh.
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    Unsafe Abortion: A Development Issue

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Abortion is an increasingly controversial issue, provoking strong reactions both 'for' and 'against'. Language used in disputes over access to safe and legal abortion indicates the polarisation of debates: pro-choice versus pro-life; pro-abortion versus anti-choice.
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    Recent Reforms in Personal Status Laws and Women's Empowerment: Family Courts in Egypt

    American University in Cairo, 2008
    Since 2000 a series of reforms have been introduced in Egyptian family laws. These include legislation that: gives women the right to file for no-fault divorce (khul) in exchange for forfeiting their financial rights; and women in unregistered marriages (urfi) the right to file for divorce.
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    Gender Equality and Social Institutions in Nepal

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    In most Nepalese communities, women's position is governed by patriarchal traditions, and conventional assumptions of women's role in society have been slow to change. In general, it is believed that a woman's place and role in Nepal is in the home, where the main duties include childrearing and household chores. Nepalese women also have limited access to education.
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    Sri Lanka Gender Gap Index

    World Economic Forum, 2008
    This Sri Lanka profile from the Global Gender Gap Report 2008 outlines country data and statistics relating to the Gender Gap Index (GGI) in the areas of: Economic Participation and Opportunity; Educational Attainment; Health and Survival; and Political Empowerment, by sex.

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