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    Security Council Resolution 1325 Civil Society Monitoring Report: The Philippines

    Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, 2010
    Armed conflicts have existed in the Philippines since the 1960s. This monitoring report examines the impacts of war on Filipina women, and their contributions to conflict prevention, conflict resolution and peacebuilding ten years after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325.
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    Gender equality monitoring report

    Philippines-Canada Cooperation Office, 2010
    This Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Philippines Program monitoring report highlights the gender-specific improvements, issues and challenges of its projects between July 2009 and June 2010.
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    Supporting civic activism among chronically poor women

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
    To what extent are multidimensional women’s microfinance groups in Bolivia and Bangladesh capable of supporting civic activism among chronically poor women? Multidimensional microfinance programmes are those that offer more than finance services; they also offer social services, often through a group-lending model.
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    Literature review: The efficacy of women’s social movements to include chronically poor women and give voice to their demands

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
    Social movements are known to struggle to include, or be representative of, chronically poor women.
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    Policy brief: designing programs to increase women’s participation in local government

    Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2012
    In 2006, The Initiative for Inclusive Security partnered with the Rwandan Association of Local Government Authorities (RALGA) and the National Women’s Council to conduct training to increase women’s participation in the 2006 local elections. The preparation of more than 2,300 female candidates helped Rwanda successfully fulfill a constitutional quota at the local level.
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    Governing climate funds: what will work for women?

    Gender Action, 2011
    As the international community mobilizes in response to global climate changes, climate change mechanisms must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world's most vulnerable populations.
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    Community-based adaptation to climate change

    2009
    All communities have the right to contribute to climate adaptation strategies. This issue of Participatory Learning and Action was produced by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) to coincide with the 2009 COP 15 and surrounding events.
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    Gender and Climate Change: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move towards more people-centred, gender-aware climate change policies and processes?
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    Women’s Participation and Representation : the Examples of Rwanda and South Africa (in French)

    Genre en Action, 2007
    South Africa and Rwanda have an unprecedented number of women in government, but the way each country embraces and promotes women's agendas is very different. The two main contributing factors to this difference are the nature of the ruling political regime and the mobilising power of civil society.
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    A User's Guide to Measuring Gender-sensitive Basic Service Delivery (in English, French and Spanish)

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    Gender, governance and basic services are inextricably linked. A functioning democratic system of governance enables people to express their needs through the political system, and ensures that the system responds appropriately to their needs. This Guide reviews the role of basic services in development and in relation to the Millennium Developmen Goals (MDGs).

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