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  Spotlight on publications: national human rights institutions in Latin America

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012

  This Spotlight presents a selection of publications that assess the main features, history, work and impact of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Latin America. Selected by human rights experts at Fundar , these publications highlight a variety of Latin American experiences in which NHRIs have had a significant impact on promoting and defending human rights.
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  Disability considerations for infrastructure programmes

  Evidence on Demand, 2016

  Approximately 15% of the world’s population, over a billion people, have some form of disability. DFID’s aim is for its policies and programmes to be inclusive of and accessible to all people, including people with disabilities, vulnerable and those discriminated against and excluded due to gender, geography, income, age or other characteristics.
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  Integrating gender perspectives in evaluating the efficiency of COFI: the case of credit cooperatives in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  Over the last several years, a number of studies on group-based lending programs have examined the issue of empowering women through greater access to finance.
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  Poverty and access to microfinance with gender dimension

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2003

  Although admittedly still small relative to the size of the entire domestic financial market, the Philippine microfinance market has been developing quite rapidly in the last few years.
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  Human resource development and poverty in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005

  In the last twenty years, the Philippines has gained a good progress in poverty reduction. However, compared to other countries in the region, the Philippines is still behind. In the early years of the 21st century, more than a third of the Philippine population lives below the poverty line. With landless status, the poor depended largely on labour with its embedded educational capital.
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  Gender Equality in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Lessons from the MDGs, IDS Bulletin Vol. 47 No.1A March 2016

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016

  This article addresses some central issues for the Post-2015 Development Agenda from a Southern perspective on gender equality and women’s human rights. To answer this question, it first examines what lessons can be learned from the decade or so of implementation of the MDGs.
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  An empirical analysis on the tradeoff between schooling and child labor in the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2004

  This paper looks into the reality that is child labor and tries to understand its existence in light of education realities and schooling issues in the Philippines. It attempts to answer the aforesaid question through the investigation on the tradeoff between child labor and schooling, and the exploration of the impacts of this tradeoff in both the short term and long term.
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  Gender-responsive budgeting through the CBMS lens

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010

  This paper results from a series of international workshops that brought together CBMS and GRB practitioners to discuss how the community-based monitoring system (CBMS) can be used to facilitate gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) at the local level.
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  Beyond domestic violence laws: what else makes responses to domestic violence effective?

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2015

  In the last twenty-five years, there has been growing recognition both from the academic and activist communities that domestic violence is a public issue worthy of attention. The response has largely been the enactment of domestic violence laws across many different countries both in Africa and Latin America.
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  Work, family and public policy changes in Latin America: equity, maternalism and co-responsibility

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014

  Taking account of the substantial increase in female labour market participation that has occurred throughout the Latin American region, this article describes policies adopted with the aim of reconciling work and family responsibilities between 2003 and 2013, and the implications of their design for socioeconomic and gender equity.

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