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    Fund for African Women report

    2013
    In November 2004, African Heads of State and Government adopted the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA), which demonstrated a commitment to women’s empowerment. Article 11 of the Declaration calls for the establishment of an African Trust Fund for Women. The Fund for African Women has five main objectives:
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    Measuring the Economic Gain of Investing in Girls: The Girl Effect Dividend

    World Bank, 2011
    This paper estimates the costs incurred by societies as a result of the social exclusion of adolescent girls. It explores the potential increases in national income that could be gained by addressing early school dropout, teenage pregnancy and joblessness. It finds that marginal investments in girls can have a substantial impact on GDP growth.
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    African Women and Girls – Their say on their world post-2015

    Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development, 2014
    The Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development (ACORD), has released a landmark publication that details the voices of African women and girls in the post Millennium Development Goals discussion. African women and girls at the Grassroots – their say on their world post 2015 is a representation of African women’s voices from the grassroots.
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    WED: Measuring Change in Women Entrepreneur’s Economic Empowerment: A Literature Review

    2013
    The Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) women’s entrepreneurship development (WED) working group advances a learning and knowledge sharing agenda on the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship development. Its mission is to promote equitable opportunities between women and men, as well as strengthen economic impact.
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    Aid in Support of Women's Economic Empowerment

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2011
    Economic empowerment aims to raise the capacity of women and men to participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes in ways which recognise the value of their contributions, respect their dignity and make it possible to negotiate a fairer distribution of the benefits of growth.
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    Women and the formal economy

    Australian Agency for International Development, 2011
    This think piece by Lorraine Corner concerns women and the formal economy. Historically, in high income countries participation in the formal economy has been the most important route to women’s empowerment and increased gender equality.  The costs of gender inequality in the formal economy are high, especially in developing countries.
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    Gender and Rural Microfinance: Reaching and Empowering Women - A Guide for Practitioners

    2009
    Innovations in financial services, particularly in microfinance, have enabled millions of women and men in rural areas who were formerly excluded from the financial sector to gain access to financial services on an ongoing basis.
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    Australian Council for International Development (ACFID)

    The Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) unites Australia’s non-government aid and international development organisations to strengthen their collective impact against pover
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    Seeing is Believing: Questions about Faith-Based Organizations That Are Involved in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment

    Catholics for Choice, 2010
    Faith-based organisations have long been on the front lines of healthcare provision, and they receive enormous amounts of public money to do so. Unfortunately, many of these providers do not provide a full range of preventative care, especially advice on the use of and access to condoms to prevent the spread of HIV.
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    Iran’s subsidy reform from promise to disappointment

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    In December 2010, Iran implemented an ambitious subsidy reform program for energy; however, three years later, the program has stalled and energy prices are once again well below their global levels. The current paper reveals that two factors explain the failure of the program to continue after its successful implementation.

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