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    Election coverage from a gender perspective: a media monitoring manual

    2011
    This manual, published by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) and based on the experience of Latin American organisations, presents a 'common and replicable methodological tool' for monitoring media coverage from a gender perspective during elections campaigns.
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    Women's participation in elections across Africa

    2011
    This report, published by Make Every Woman Count (MEWC), provides an overview of the role of women in elections across Africa in 2011. It discusses the position of female candidates before and after the elections have taken place, as well as provides analysis of women's participation in African politics.
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    Influential leadership: a handbook for African women

    2012
    This 80-page handbook, published by West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACI), is a training manual with eight sessions designed to guide the empowerment of African Women with leadership skills. According to the publication, leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organisation in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent.
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    Elections in Chad: the role of Women in strengthening democracy

    2011
    The purpose of this paper is to identify current gaps and potential opportunities in promoting gender and equity considerations for civil society in Chad, and exploring ways in which Counterpart International could effectively engage with women and promote their participation in democratic processes.
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    The future women want: a vision of sustainable development for all

    UN Women, 2012
    United Nations Member States unanimously agreed in 1992 in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that ‘women have a vital role in environmental management and development.
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    Democracy and the challenge of change: a guide to increasing women's political participation

    2011
    Based om 25 years of working towards women’s political participation, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) produced this guide for democracy practitioners to help them develop and carry out effective programmes to bring more women into government and politics. The guide focuses on programmes in the areas of citizen participation, elections, political parties, and governance.
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    Informing refugees and returnees on Gender Based Violence

    2011
    This 30-page evaluation report shares experiences and lessons learned by Search for Common Ground in using mobile cinema and radio programming to provide a space for discussion, as well as raise awareness and strengthen prevention, around gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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    Media coverage of gender and the constitution-making process

    2012
    This 12-page report shares findings from Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe's (MMPZ) research to assess the mainstream media's role in giving space and visibility to women's concerns, voices, and participation in Zimbabwe's constitution-making process.
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    Gender Equality Strategy 2008-2011

    2011
    The Gender Equality Strategy 2008-2011 embodies UNDP's strong corporate commitment to deepen further our efforts to promote gender equality and women's empowerment. It is designed to complement and reinforce UNDP's Strategic Plan 2008-2011, by defining in more detail how attention to gender equality and women's empowerment will strengthen action in all other areas of work.
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    No future without justice – Report of the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives

    Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 2012
    This paper argues that the world faces a number of global crises which reflect the failures of the dominant model of development and economic progress. This model ignores human rights and the ecological limits of the global ecosystem, and considers poverty as a primarily technical challenge in which categories of inequality and social justice are neglected.

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