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Moving to the mainstream: integrating gender in Afghanistan’s national policy
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008This paper discusses gender mainstreaming in the context of Afghanistan’s national policy. It analyses progress to date, discusses how gender mechanisms such as gender units, and working groups facilitate the implementation of gender policy and suggests ways in which gender mainstreaming in the country’s policy and ministry can be improved.DocumentPicture our lives: gender and images in southern Africa
Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2004How can images be used to challenge gender stereotypes in southern Afirca? This manual aims to provide an insight into gender and photojournalism in Southern Africa. Developed by experts and practitioners in the field and targeted at trainers, the manual contains fifty handouts and a number of exercises, and case examples. Key points highlighted by the manual include:DocumentThe role of women’s empowerment and domestic violence in child growth and undernutrition in a tribal and rural community in South India
World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008Moderate under nutrition continues to affect 46 per cent of children under 5 years of age and 47 per cent of rural women in India. Women’s lack of empowerment is believed to be an important factor in the persistent prevalence of undernutrition. In India, women’s empowerment often varies by community, with tribes sometimes being the most progressive.DocumentA rights-based approach to realizing the economic and social rights of poor and marginalized women
International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2008Discussions among international donors and development agencies about how to reduce global poverty and increase overall well-being are particularly focused on realising human rights through a rightsbased approach.DocumentThe future of retirement: the new old age – a gender perspective
HSBC Global Forum on Ageing and Retirement, 2008HSBC interviewed 21,000 men and women aged between 40 and 79 in 21 mature and transitional countries and territories around the world. The men and women surveyed in this report revealed that they have different attitudes and expectations of old age and retirement, their communities and families and their health. The report is divided into four geographic regions:OrganisationCommittee for Asian Women (CAW)
Committee for Asian Women promotes employment, equal labour standards and participation in decision making for all women workers.DocumentGiving girls today and tomorrow: breaking the cycle of adolescent pregnancy
United Nations Population Fund, 2007This document investigates the extent to which adolescent marriage and pregnancy inhibits the future of young girls. It particularly focuses on evidence from countries where early marriages and high risk pregnancies are most common.OrganisationVital Voices Global Partnership
Vital Voices Global Partnership believes in the transformative value of women's participation in society.DocumentProtecting tropical forests and gender justice
Gender and Climate Change Network – Women for Climate Justice, 2007The Gender and Climate Change Network argues that forestry is not only about trees and their carbon content, but also about the ecosystem in a broader sense and the people who live in and from the forest. It is therefore necessary that social issues to a larger extent are considered in the current climate change debate.