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    Framing Gender Equality in the European Union Political Discourse

    2008
    Notions of equal opportunities and positive action have become increasingly common in EU-policy documents on gender equality, along with an increased emphasis on gender mainstreaming, with a 'broader approach' that considers gender in contexts that are not only specific to women. This paper asks whether this broader focus has improved the quality of gender policies.
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    Webpage: EU-CIS Gender Watch 2007-2008

    Network of East-West Women, 2008
    What mechanisms can help civil society organisations from Eastern European countries monitor that the European Union (EU) keeps to their gender equality commitments? The main objective of the ?EU-CIS Gender Watch?
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    European Pact for Gender Equality

    Council of Europe, 2006
    The European Council has adopted a European Pact for gender equality to encourage action at member state and European Union levels in the following areas: closing gender gaps and combating gender stereotypes in the labour market; promoting a better work-life balance for all; improving governance through gender mainstreaming and putting in place gender sensitive monitoring and evaluation processes.
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    Mainstreaming Human Rights and Gender into European Security and Defence Policy

    Commission of the European Communities, 2008
    The European Union (EU) launched its first crisis management operation in 2003. Since then it has deployed over 20 military, police and rule of law operations on three continents. This handbook gathers together the documents that comprise the guiding principles for those responsible for planning and implementing European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) operations.
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    Gender and Governance: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This Supporting Resources Collection - part of the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Governance - showcases existing work on gender and governance. It presents summaries of a mix of conceptual and research papers, policy briefings, advocacy documents, case study material, and practical tools from diverse regions and disciplines.
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    Gender and Governance: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    With their focus on democracy, transparency, accountability, inclusive citizenship and participatory processes there is huge potential in the ideas and practices of governance to catalyse real change in terms of gender equality. However, this potential remains largely untapped.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 21: Gender and Governance

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Governance processes - with their emphasis on principles of accountability, transparency, responsiveness and inclusiveness - should be a means to social transformation. But despite this potential, they are failing to deliver on gender equality.
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    Gender and Governance Cutting Edge Pack

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Put simply, governance refers to decision-making by a range of interested people (or 'stakeholders') including those in formal positions of power and 'ordinary' citizens. These decisions have a huge impact on the ways in which women and men lead their lives, on the rules they are expected to abide by, and on the structures that determine where and how they work and live.
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    Recasting the Global Political Economy: Counting Women's Unpaid Work

    New Political Economy, 2009
    To date, the discipline of International Political Economy (IPE) has prioritised the study of the state and the market. But what about the spheres of the social, the domestic and the household? There is a widespread, growing depletion of the capacities and resources for social reproduction - that is, the 'glue' that keeps households and societies together and active.
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    UNDP Gender Mainstreaming Scorecard

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    UNDP has opted for mainstreaming gender as its main strategy to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment. To this end, it has developed a Gender Mainstreaming Scorecard - a tool which combines the measurement of institutional and programmatic performance on gender mainstreaming.

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