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  "Measuring Gender Quality in Education", in Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education

  2005

  This chapter critically reviews existing measures of gender equality in education used by international agencies and governments - mainly based on school enrolment rates - and proposes alternative forms of measurement. For example, enrolment rates tell us nothing about gender equality in relation to school attendance rates, progression through school, or levels of achievement.
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  Guide to Gender Sensitive Indicators

  Canadian International Development Agency, 1997

  Designed to help CIDA staff understand how to use gender-sensitive indicators, this guide reviews techniques for choosing appropriate indicators and discusses specific methodological approaches to using them at the project level. It outlines what gender-sensitive indicators are and discusses why they are useful.
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  Chapter 7: Monitoring and Evaluation, in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2003

  This chapter discusses monitoring and evaluation of actions designed to protect against sexual and gender-based violence against refugees and internally displaced persons. It outlines six actions that should guide the development of a monitoring or evaluation system. One step is to establish coordinated and common reporting tools.
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  Focus. Empowering Women

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) supports Palestinian women through a wide range of initiatives - reviewed in this magazine. Training on gender and women's rights and assistance in gender mainstreaming is provided by UNDP to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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  Palestinian Women in Israel

  Coalition of Women for Peace, 2004

  Palestinian women living in Israel experience overlapping spheres of discrimination - politically, economically, and socially. Politically, Israel is dominated by men particularly those from the military. Although many women are dissatisfied with how political parties address women's concerns, fewer and fewer women are entering politics.
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  Occupation, Patriarchy, and the Palestinian Women's Movement. An Interview with Hanadi Loubani

  Mediterranean Women, 2003

  Hanadi Loubani is a founding member of Women for Palestine, a feminist, anti-racist Palestinian solidarity group. In this interview, she explains the background to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, how it intersects with patriarchy (the systemic structures that institutionalise male power over women), and some of the responses from the Palestinian women's movement.
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  Combined Initial, Second and Third CEDAW Periodic Reports: Cambodia

  2004

  What steps has Cambodia's government taken to achieve gender equality since ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in October 2002? In this first report to the CEDAW Committee, the government outlines progress in a range of areas.
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  Gender Analysis and Assessment: Volume 1 Gender Analysis

  2006

  Cambodia is slowly recovering from decades of violence and unrest. One positive outcome of this social upheaval is that oppressive gender roles and responsibilities are being challenged. Alongside this process are efforts to improve the status of women and promote their human rights.
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  The United Nations: A Framework for Support of Gender in Cambodia

  2006

  The United Nations (UN) is committed to addressing gender concerns in Cambodia as a priority in its implementation of the UN Development Assistance Framework 2006-2010. The UN recognises that women are underrepresented politically in Cambodia and have a lower economic, social and cultural status to men.
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  The Progress Report on Implementation of Beijing Platform for Action on Women's Issues 1995-2005

  Royal Government of Cambodia, 2004

  Since 1995, when it signed up to the Beijing Platform for Action, the Royal Government of Cambodia has incorporated gender strategies into national plans and policies.

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