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  Why eat green cucumbers at the time of dying?: women’s literacy and development in Nepal

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2000

  Why should people take on new literacy practices when they feel they are able to communicate adequately? Is 'traditional' literacy the key to women's empowerment? In Nepal, as elsewhere, there has been an explosion of literacy programmes due to the popular perception that this is the case. This report questions whether such programmes meet women's needs from the point of view of participants.
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  En-gendering the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Health

  World Health Organization, 2003

  The Millennium Development Declaration takes gender to be central to achieving all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, only MDG 3 specifically deals with gender and the indicator given is confined to educational attainment. This publication proposes additions to the MDG text based on an examination of the gender dimensions of each health-related Goal (1, 4, 5, 6 and 7).
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  CEDAW Combined Second and Third Periodic Reports of States Parties: Indonesia

  United Nations, 1997

  This report outlines the status of women in Indonesia as of 1997, the last time Indonesia made a submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of CEDAW. Indonesia has had a Minister of State for the Role of Women since 1978. In the years leading up to 1997, the country experienced rapid economic growth that substantially changed the status of women.
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  Women's Human Rights Situation in Indonesia

  Online Women in Politics, 2002

  Under the Indonesian Constitution women have the same rights as men. What happens in practice?
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  A Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Integrated Literacy and Basic Education Programs on Women's Participation in Social and Economic Development in Nepal

  2002

  Do women's literacy programmes have a significant impact on women's social and economic development? This study looks at two literacy programmes in Nepal: the Basic Primary Education Program (BPEP) and the Health Education and Adult Literacy Program (HEAL). It is aimed at policy-makers (national and donor) and practitioners to enable better programme planning.
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  Literacy and Social Change: From a Woman's Perspective

  Proceedings of the 1996 World Conference on Literacy, 1996

  How can literacy programmes be implemented which address the real, wider needs of marginalised groups? This paper describes self-generated literacy programmes in two communities in Mumbai, India. The programmes were planned by women in the communities around their actual needs rather than following traditional schooling methods.
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  Open Learning System of Adult Education for Empowering Women in India

  Commonwealth of Learning, 2003

  Although there have been improvements over the past twenty years, there remains a significant gender disparity in literacy in India. The rise in women's employment has largely been made possible by the provision of opportunities such as the distance education system, open universities, women's universities and women's studies centres and non-formal adult education.
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  A Fair Chance: Attaining Gender Equality in Basic Education by 2005

  ActionAid International, 2003

  At the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders agreed to get as many girls as boys into primary and secondary classrooms by 2005. Despite the deadline being less than two years away, no country is so far off track that it could not eliminate gender gaps in rural and urban primary and secondary school intake rates by 2005.
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  Gender Makes a Difference: Gender Analysis Workshop Increases Skills of Those Working to Link Agriculture and Nutrition

  Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2003

  Gender analysis is rarely used to improve the effectiveness of nutrition interventions and their links to agriculture to reduce hunger and malnutrition. To address this issue, the third Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project workshop was held for ICRW/IFPRI/USAID country team members from Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda.
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.

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