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    Flexible, Open and Distance Learning: An Enabler or Barrier to Women’s Empowerment through Education and Learning

    Commonwealth of Learning, 2013
    Can flexible, open and distance learning (FODL) deliver education equitably and equally, as well as remove barriers to women’s learning and enhance empowerment, in the Global South?
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    Measuring the Economic Gain of Investing in Girls: The Girl Effect Dividend

    World Bank, 2011
    This paper estimates the costs incurred by societies as a result of the social exclusion of adolescent girls. It explores the potential increases in national income that could be gained by addressing early school dropout, teenage pregnancy and joblessness. It finds that marginal investments in girls can have a substantial impact on GDP growth.
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    Gender, violence and the post-2015 framework

    Overseas Development Institute, 2013
    Should the post-2015 development agenda include a specific focus on violence against women? Should gender-equity be a goal in the development agenda? This publication emphasises the urgent need for ensuring the human rights of women and girls by making them national and global commitments.
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    In Her Shoes toolkit

    GBV Prevention Network, 2011
    Anyone who wants to learn about the realities of women experiencing violence in sub-Saharan Africa can benefit from walking In Her Shoes. This interactive toolkit gives women and men the opportunity to ‘walk in the shoes’ of a woman who is experiencing gender-based violence (GBV).
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    Informal Justice Systems: Charting a Course for Human Rights-Based Engagement

    UN Women, 2012
    Providing accessible justice is a state obligation under international human rights standards, but this obligation does not require that all justice be provided through formal justice systems.
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    Electoral quotas and political representation: Comparative perspectives

    2014
    Electoral quotas have emerged as one of the critical political reforms of the last two decades, affecting a wide range of representative processes. However, the evidence is not yet conclusive with regard to what quotas ‘mean’ more broadly, either for politics at large, or for the empowerment of group members.
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    Motherhood in childhood: facing the challenge of adolescent pregnancy

    United Nations Population Fund, 2013
    Every day in developing countries, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth. Nine in 10 of these births occur within marriage or a union. This has consequences on the health, education, employment and rights of an untold millions of girls. What are the challenges of adolescent pregnancy, and what can we do to ensure girls have a healthy and safe transition into adulthood?
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    Youth, Waithood, and Protest Movements in Africa

    International African Institute, 2013
    Africa is the world’s youngest continent, with the majority of its population under the age of 24. Although during the past decade the continent has experienced considerable economic growth, it has not translated into job creation and greater equity.
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    Rethinking Social Protection Using a Gender Lens

    Overseas Development Institute, 2010
    The role of gender in social protection is complex, shaping the types of risks tackled, how they are tackled, public buy-in and programme implementation practices. However, the extent to which gender has been integrated into social protection approaches has been uneven at best.
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    Literature Review on Gender and Fragility

    European University Institute, Italy, 2009
    This review sets out to provide the background literature on which the emerging analysis of gender and fragility builds with reference to the literature on gender and economic development, gender indicators and gender responsive budgeting, gender and peace, gender and conflict and gender, governance and citizenship.

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