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    Gender in local government: a sourcebook for trainers

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2008
    Women and girls make up the majority of the population in most countries, therefore, it can be argued that local democracy, inclusiveness and sustainability can only be achieved when this share of the population has an equal say in the way that cities and municipalities are organized and managed.
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    Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

    International Development Research Centre, 2008
    This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.
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    Voices of women entrepreneurs in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    World Bank Research, 2008
    This paper highlights the many positive role models of Bosnian businesswomen. Their stories of succeeding in a challenging post-war environment provide inspiration to young women who are just starting out in their professional life.
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    Biopolitics, climate change and water security: impact, vulnerability and adaptation issues for women

    2007
    The world over, the increased degradation of  ecosystems, excessive consumption of water, contamination and salinisation of water-bearings,  aquifers and dams, along with the impact of
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    The economic imperatives of marriage: emerging practices and identities among youth in the Middle East

    Middle East Youth Initiative, 2007
    Demographic transition in the Middle East and North African region has led to what has been termed a ‘youth bulge’, with over 50% of the population being under 25. With co-habitation legally and culturally unacceptable, young people often remain dependent on parental support until they can afford to get married.
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    The vulnerability of ‘self-help’: women and microfinance in south India

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    This IDS working paper looks at the role of self-help groups (SHGs) in providing microfinance in India. The author finds state institutions also play a big role, directly and by promoting and financing self-help groups.The research finds there are relationships between SHGs and institutions that are not symmetrical. It also finds:
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    Sakhi Saheli – promoting gender equity and empowering young women: a training manual

    Population Council, 2008
    Women’s heightened vulnerability to HIV is influenced by some of the major inequalities between women and men in various aspects of living.
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    Women business owners in the United Arab Emirates

    International Finance Corporation, 2007
    This report on women business owners in the United Arab Emirates helps to recognise the increasingly important role that business women play in the country’s dynamic economy. The project outlined in this report covered most of the business aspects and statistics of local business activities and allows an insight into the characteristics and challenges of female business owners.
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    From despair to hope; women’s right to own and inherit property

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2005
    The right to own and inherit property is a crosscutting right that traverses the realm of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Emerging legal and social trends, as they relate to the ownership and inheritance of property, indicate a practice that has largely worked out to the detriment of women in virtually all communities and social classes in Kenya.
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    Sexual health and sexual rights within marriage

    Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center, 2006
    The sexual rights and obligations within marriage are no doubt tied to the health status of partners, and the overall well being of families. The United Nations’ Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979. In 1985 Nigerian Government ratified CEDAW and thus becomes one of the countries bounded by its provisions.

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