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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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  Country Gender Assessment, Sri Lanka

  Asian Development Bank, 2008

  This report was prepared by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to provide an overview and update of gender issues in Sri Lanka and to help ADB in identifying how gender dimensions can be incorporated into development assistance planning.
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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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  Reforming the Penal Code in Turkey: the Campaign for the Reform of the Turkish Penal Code from a Gender Perspective

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  This paper describes how the Turkish NGO, Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR), campaigned for gender-sensitive legal reform. WWHR established the Platform for the Reform of the Turkish Penal Code, comprised of women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) groups, in order to provide a strong basis for the campaign.
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  Gender and Security Sector Reform Training Resource Package

  Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2009

  Security sector reform (SSR) is increasingly prioritised by governments, and by international development, peace and security communities.
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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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  European Women's Lobby Statement to the Spring Council 2007 - 50 Years of European Gender Equality Legislation: Implement Gender Justice now!

  2007

  While European Union (EU) legislation has been instrumental in promoting gender equality and women's rights in Member States and accession countries, the binding legal instruments do not address the obstacles and inequalities that women confront in the private sphere. The European Women's Lobby identifies key areas where EU institutions should intervene if gender equality is to be achieved.
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  The Treaty of Lisbon from a Gender Perspective: Changes and Challenges

  2008

  The Treaty of Lisbon is an agreement signed in 2007 that aims to reform and modify European Union institutions and their ways of working so that they are better equipped to face today's challenges. This briefing paper was written to guide the Women in Development Europe (WIDE) in shaping their gender advocacy strategy around the Treaty.
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  Who Decides - Gender Mapping the European Unionïs Policy and Decision-making in the Areas of Development, External Relations and Trade

  2007

  This study analyses the role played by key European Union (EU) institutions - The Council of Ministers, the European Commission (EC), the EC Delegations and the European Parliament (EP) - in defining policy priorities and in developing, implementing and monitoring development programmes in the South, from a feminist perspective.
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  European Women's Lobby Resource Kit on Institutional Mechanisms for the Promotion of Equality between Women and Men

  European Women’s Lobby, 2009

  This online Resource Kit presents information about existing public institutions dealing with equality between women and men at international, European and national levels.

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