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  Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps): Case Studies in Education

  Cambridge Education Consultants, 2000

  This study was aimed to produce practical guidelines on good practice in mainstreaming gender into the planning and implementation of education SWAps. SWAps are a move away from project-focused approaches in educational development and the 'islands of excellence' that these entail, towards the provision of technical assistance within a coherent sector policy.
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  Barriers to Girls' Education: Strategies and Interventions

  2002

  This resource from the 'Teachers Talking about Learning' initiative of UNICEF provides a comprehensive overview of barriers to girls' education.
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  What Works in Girls? Education: Evidence and Policies from the Developing World

  Council on Foreign Relations, 2004

  This paper summarises the most promising approaches to increasing girls' enrolment and educational quality. It also presents a wide range of data strongly supporting the need for governments and other stakeholders to invest in girls' education. It is aimed at policymakers and their staff and provides a list of 'what works' to educate girls, namely:
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  Girls' Education: Towards a Better Future for All

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This paper describes DFID's planned actions to support work towards the education and gender Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
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  Gender, Education and Training

  Oxfam, 1998

  This collection of articles by development workers and researchers focuses on learning opportunities for women offered by education and training.
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  Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Education

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  This is one of a number of papers written in preparation for a full DFID evaluation of its gender equality work. It reviews the framework, country commitments and multilateral cooperation in the field of education - and outlines the reasons for failure to reach parity in primary education by a large number of countries in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Towards Universal Primary Education: Investments, Incentives, and Institutions

  Millennium Project, 2005

  The reality is that many countries will miss the 2005 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of gender parity in primary education. What could improve the chance of meeting the 2015 Goals? This report from the Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality offers a set of interventions that countries can choose from to help provide universal access to high-quality education.
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  Millennium Development Goals: Gender Factsheet

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  This factsheet provides an overview of how the Department for International Development, UK (DFID) is working to address Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 3, 'Promote gender equality and empower women'.
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  Women, Income-generating Activities and the Conservation of Natural Resources: Medicinal, Culinary and Aromatic Plants in the Sudan

  United Nations, 2002

  This paper presents information on the role of Sudanese medicinal, culinary and aromatic plants in the conservation of natural resources and in the generation of income for rural women. In most parts of the Sudan women constitute the principal labor force for both cash crops and food production.
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  Gender Assessment Sudan ISP: 2003-2005

  2003

  As Sudan emerges from decades of internal conflict, this report outlines the status of women in Sudan, with a particular emphasis on the differing challenges faced by women in Northern and Southern Sudan. Gender relations in Sudan must be examined through the lens of a range of ecological, ethnic, cultural and socio-economic differences.

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