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    ‘One hand can’t clap by itself’: engagement of boys and men in Kembatti Mentti Gezzimma’s intervention to eliminate female genital mutilation and circumcision in Kembatta zone, Ethiopia

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The successful involvement of men and women as part of a community-wide appro
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    The ‘One Man Can’ Model: community mobilisation as an approach to promote gender equality and reduce HIV vulnerability in South Africa

    2015
    One of the main contextual factors driving the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is shared social norms reinforcing restrictive masculine and feminine roles and inequitable gender relationships, which limit women’s ability to protect themselves from HIV while simultaneously putting social pressure on men to take on a range of sexual and health risks.
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    Connecting the global to the local: reflections on CSW 59 and the work of collective actors to address structural violence in South Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    This report from Thea Shahrokh and Elizabeth Mills of the Institute for Development Studies reflects on the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), and ties it to the work of collective actors addressing structural violence in South Africa.
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    Gender Inequality Index

    United Nations Development Programme, 2014
    The Gender Inequality Index (GII), produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development: reproductive health, measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates; empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and o
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    Women and peace and security: report of the Secretary-General

    United Nations Security Council, 2010
    This report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Security Council (UNSRC) concerns women, peace and security, and the difficulty of highlighting significant achievements ten years after the adoption of Resolution 1325 (October 2000), which sought to draw attention to the disproportionate suffering of women in areas of armed conflict, and promote women's participation in peace negotiation
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    Compendium of gender scales

    Communication for Change, 2014
    The identification of appropriate gender-related measures is important for developing and evaluating interventions that aim to promote positive health outcomes by addressing the gender norms that function as barriers to health.
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    Gender and WASH monitoring tool

    Plan International, 2014
    Plan Vietnam and Plan Australia have been piloting a participatory Gender and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Monitoring Tool (GWMT) since 2011, after staff recognised the gaps and challenges of measuring progress towards gender equality in WASH projects.
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    The Millennium Development Goals report gender chart 2014

    United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2014
    This special edition of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Gender Chart was produced for the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, March 2014. It presents sex-disaggregated data on each of the MDG goals (not simply that of MDG3 on gender equality) in a clear, concise format using simple data visualisation methods.
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    Tool: indicators for measuring results on gender equality

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2010
    The purpose of this Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) publication is to provide a selection of potential indicators from which SIDA country teams can choose to help monitor results in gender equality work in different sectors.
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    Measuring women’s empowerment and social transformation in the post-2015 agenda

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have made some progress in certain areas of gender equality, they will ultimately fail to produce the sustainable human rights-based social transformation that is needed. If the post-2015 framework is to succeed in this regard, it must target the promotion of inclusive and social transformations that address poverty and exclusion at its roots.

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