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    NGO CSW Outcome Document North America and Europe

    Women's UN Report Network, 2014
    While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are typically viewed in relation to the Global South, this document applies them to North America and Europe under the premise that all countries have an obligation to meet the goals and be held accountable for development within, and outside, their own borders.
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    New actors, new money, new conversations: a mapping of recent initiatives for women and girls

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    Over the past several years, investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’ has become a favored strategy in development and philanthropy. This has precipitated a host of campaigns and initiatives, including new private-sector involvement, dedicated to supporting women and girls.
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    Women moving mountains: collective impact of the Dutch MDG3 fund

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    Through decades of collective and individual struggle, and determined, conscious design, the women’s rights movement has achieved unprecedented shifts in global perception to the notion of gender equality as a desirable goal.
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    Participatory methodology: Rapid Care Analysis

    Oxfam, 2013
    Although care is at heart a public good, responsibility for unpaid care work falls predominantly on women, contributing to their extreme poverty and social exclusion.
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    Getting unpaid care onto development agendas.

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
    This IDS Policy Brief from January 2013 focuses on getting unpaid care onto the development agenda.
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    Watering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    In the foreword to this report, AWID Executive Director Lydia Alpízar writes that she finds it, “truly surprising… that women’s rights organising and movements have been functioning, often with quite minimal financial support, even as their experience and effectiveness has increased.”
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    Gender, Water and Sanitation: A Policy Brief

    UN-Water, 2006
    This policy brief explores the issue of water management while looking at the roles and responsibilities often held by women within the community. It was developed by the Inter-agency Task Force on Gender and Water (GWTF) and emphasises the importance of analysing water and sanitation needs from a gender perspective.
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    For her it's the big issue: putting women at the centre of water supply, sanitation and hygiene.

    Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, 2006
    Lack of basic sanitation and safe water is a major issue for women and girls who live in poor and overcrowded areas.
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    Gender and community mobilisation for urban water infrastructure investment in Southern Nigeria

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
    In the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Benin City, the 2006 census reported that just 26% and 5% of households had access to treated piped water respectively, with a significant informal water delivery sector working alongside, or in place of, public utilities, community wells, or private bore-holes.
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    Women for Peace 2013

    Women in Black, 2013
    ‘Women for Peace’ is a collection of women's testimonies on war and women's resistance to war primarily in former Yugoslavia, particularly through the Women in Black movement in Bosnia, a worldwide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence.

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