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  Wellbeing pathways report: Zambia round 2

  Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways, University of Bath, 2014

  Based on fieldwork questions which gathered both objective and subjective data across key areas of life, this report presents the preliminary findings from the second round of fieldwork carried out in Chiawa, Zambia from August to October 2012 as part of the Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways research project.
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  New developments in international poverty law: the UN guiding principles on extreme poverty and human rights

  Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2014

  The adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (GP), by the UN Human Rights Council in September 2012 and by the General Assembly in December 2012, marked a potentially historic advance in the overall process of incorporating issues related to poverty and inequality into broader frameworks regarding the conceptualisation of human rights.
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  Gender equality matters: empowering women through literacy programmes

  UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013

  Gender equality is a key principle of the global Education for All (EFA) campaign, which was launched in 2000. As the target date for achieving the EFA goals (2015) approaches, it is critically important efforts intensify to achieve gender equality in education, a basic human right.
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  2nd global report on adult learning and education: rethinking literacy

  UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2014

  The benefits of adult education are uncontested, for individuals and societies as a whole – but this Report shows that gaps remain in reaching many young adults, especially from marginalised groups. It is clear that adult education does not get enough investment, either at the national or international levels.
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  Gender equality and women’s rights in the post-2015 agenda: A foundation for sustainable development

  Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2013

  Why focus on gender equality in the post-2015 agenda?
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  Challenges and achievements in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals for women and girls - Agreed Conclusions

  United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., 2014

  The 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) ended with a strong call to prioritise gender equality and the human rights of women in order to achieve sustainable development.
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  Role of ICTs and egovt to promote gender equality in the Asia Pacific - Input for the research by United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG) on "Role of e-Government to Promote Gender Equality in the Asia Pacific"

  IT for Change, 2012

  How can the perceived gender neutrality of egovernance be overcome? Due to the technocratic vocabulary and direct private sector involvement, egovernance is generally not perceived as an area of governance reform or public administration.
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  Malaysia: Violence against Women and ICT

  Association for Progressive Communications, 2009

  Can information and communication technologies (ICT) change the ways women experience and confront violence? This paper argues that ICT issues are still seen largely in terms of technology and access to technology, rather than as issues with cross-cutting effects on gender, socio-cultural relations or even the environment.
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  Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity - A Study on the Mobile Phone Gender Gap in Low-and Middle- Income Countries

  GSMA, 2010

  What kind of tools do people at the base of the economic pyramid need to find employment and to build businesses that will enable them to eventually escape poverty? This article argues that mobile phones are tools that have the capacity of empowering the poor.
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  Towards Evidence-based ICT Policy and Regulation: Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa

  2010

  How can access to ICTs be improved for women in Africa?  This study explores the gender inequities of access and usage in 17 countries of East, Central, South and West Africa. It argues that the diffusion of ICTs is highly uneven, concentrating in urban areas and leaving some rural areas almost untouched.

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