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  Placing Gender Equity in the Family Centre Stage: Use of 'Kala Jatha' Theatre

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  Women's empowerment does not necessarily take place when incomes are generated, when livelihoods are enhanced or when groups are formed. This is because within families and households, hierarchies and structures do not alter. In fact, public interventions which result in new social activity or new avenues of income generation can actually accentuate tensions within households.
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  Gender and Sustainable Development in Drylands: an Analysis of Field Experiences

  2003

  The drylands of the world cover approximately 40 percent of the earth's land surface and are a direct source of livelihood for about a billion people, especially in developing countries. However, nearly all drylands are at risk of land degradation as a result of climate change, population growth, land over-use and poverty.
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  Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand

  The Levy Economics Institute, 2005

  Do men and women own similar kinds of assets? What factors influence the gender-specific composition of asset ownership? This paper focuses on gender differences in asset ownership within households in urban low-income communities in Bangkok, Thailand.
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  Critical issues pertaining to the gender dimensions of biotechnology policy

  Gender Advisory Board, UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, 2003

  How can gender considerations be taken into account in the development of biotechnology policy in the global South? Many claim that biotechnology (e.g. genetically modified crops) has great potential for improving the health and food security of the world's poor, of which women account for 70 per cent.
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  2004 ZIM: Comprehensive Review of Gender Issues in the Education Sector

  2004

  In Zimbabwe, key indicators on enrolment, access to, and completion in education show stagnation in educational development between 1990 and 2001. Within this, serious disparities and inequalities are revealed with gender being a key contributory factor.
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  Life Skills, Sexual Maturation and Sanitation: What's (not) Happening in our Schools? An Explanatory Study from Zimbabwe

  Women's Law Centre, University of Zimbabwe, 2004

  Education is a key part of development for both men and women and also for the emancipation of women. Yet in Zimbabwe, although girls start at near parity with boys in terms of entry into primary school, they suffer much higher rates of attrition. Boys also drop out of school and do not attain the maximum levels of education.
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  Gravity of Girl Child Sexual Abuse in Zimbabwe ?Towards Creating a Culture of Prevention?

  Girl Child Network, 2005

  Though women, men and boys can be victims of gender-based violence, girls are more vulnerable to abuse because of their subordinate status in terms of gender and age. Since 1998, the Girl Child Network (GCN) has tackled over 20,000 cases of girl child sexual abuse in 6 provinces in Zimbabwe. The nature and extent of the abuse covers rape, incest, virginity testing and forced marriages.
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  Legal Regulation of Marital Relations: An Historical and Comparative Approach

  2005

  How has the legal regulation of marriage evolved to include gender equality over time? Legal codes, case studies and 40 reports to the Commission to Eliminate Discrimination against Women were analysed to address this question. Marriage codes, be they western, Islamic or Chinese, traditionally obliged the wife to obey the husband by Divine law.
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  Taking gender equality seriously: making progress, meeting new challenges

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  UNDP and its partners have had mixed success with gender mainstreaming. For UNDP, as for others, mainstreaming has too often meant that everyone - and thus no one in particular - has responsibility for promoting women's empowerment. Nonetheless, there are many success stories throughout the organisation where mainstreaming has yielded positive results.
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  Human development and Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) –Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women: mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  This report examines the status of women in Sudan, using the third Millennium Development Goal of women's empowerment as the framework. It begins with an overview of some key definitions, including gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment.

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