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    Recognising Rights, Promoting Progress: The global impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2010
    This report sets out some examples of the impact CEDAW has had around the world, focusing on case studies where CEDAW’s ratification and implementation has led to concrete changes in the opportunities afforded to women and girls. The case studies are grouped into four main areas: • Ending violence and trafficking in women and girls
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    The frameworks for elections in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority and Syria

    EuroMesco, 2009
     It is generally assumed that elections in the Southern Mediterranean largely lack credibility, being managed events used by political elites to gain political legitimacy with as little challenge to the status quo as possible. While these assumptions are not entirely wrong, they simplify a more complex situation to the extent of obscuring it.
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    Egypt Human Development Report 2010

    United Nations Development Programme, 2010
    This report deals with youth and development in Egypt, aiming at drawing young Egyptian people into mainstream society. The report believes that to complement the enabling conditions for the new Egyptian generation a number of prerequisite must be addressed.
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    UNIDO and energy efficiency: a low-carbon path for industry

    United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2009
    Energy efficiency in industry contributes to economic growth and mitigating environmental impact while reducing industrial energy intensity and improving competitiveness.
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    UNIDO and renewable energy: greening the industrial agenda

    United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2010
    Renewable energy has become a viable option for enhancing access to energy at most places through on/off grid electrification, both in urban and rural areas, and promoting productive uses and industrial applications in energy intensive industrial sectors, especially in SMEs. Industry needs reliable and affordable energy to become productive and competitive.
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    Renewable energy market transformation initiative: scaling up deployment of grid-connected renewable energy technologies for power supply diversification

    Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme [World Bank / UNDP], 2010
    The brochure explains the objectives, scope and target of the Renewable Energy Market Transformation Initiative (REMTI). The main areas of engagement of this initiative are:
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    ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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    Sanabel - Microfinance Network of Arab Countries

    Sanabel was established in 2002 when 17 representatives from seven Arab countries gathered in Tunisia to launch a network designed to serve microfinance institutions in the Arab world.
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    Irrigation in the Middle East region in figures

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    This FAO report aims to provide an accurate status of rural water resources management, with a special focus on irrigation, highlighting the major changes that have occurred in the last decade. In each country, the paper features major characteristics, trends, constraints and prospective changes in irrigation and in water resources.
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    Advocacy in the age of authoritarianism: adjustments of all sorts in Egypt

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    The focus of this paper is on the top-down introduction of advocacy in the Egyptian context in the 1990s as part of the bid to promote democratisation in the Arab world. The paper argues that in authoritarian contexts, participatory advocacy is contrary to the inhibitive policy environment and the nature of the political culture in place.

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