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  Watering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013

  In the foreword to this report, AWID Executive Director Lydia Alpízar writes that she finds it, “truly surprising… that women’s rights organising and movements have been functioning, often with quite minimal financial support, even as their experience and effectiveness has increased.”
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  Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007

  In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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  Genre et cadre post 2015: Les messages clés de la table ronde multipartite

  Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2013

  Alors que nous approchons de la fin des Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement (OMD), le travail d’élaboration d’une nouvelle architecture mondiale post 2015 pour orienter les objectifs et mesurer les progrès du développement est déjà en cours.
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  Gender and the Post 2015 Framework: Key messages from a New York multi-stakeholder roundtable

  Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2013

  This brief summarises discussions at a multi-stakeholder roundtable on gender and the post 2015 framework. The event was organised, co-hosted by BRIDGE/Institute of Development Studies, Switzerland and South Africa. The roundtable brought together a diverse group of actors from country delegations, United Nations (UN) country missions, civil society, UN agencies and research institutions.
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  Gender and Climate Change: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011

  This Supporting Resources Collection - part of the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Climate Change- showcases existing work on gender and climate change. It presents summaries of a mix of conceptual and research papers, policy briefings, advocacy documents, case study material and practical tools from diverse regions.
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  A user’s guide to measuring gender-sensitive basic service delivery

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2009

  Gender, governance and basic services are inextricably linked. A functioning democratic system of governance enables people to express their needs through the political system, and ensures that the system responds appropriately to their needs. This Guide reviews the role of basic services in development and in relation to the Millennium Developmen Goals (MDGs).
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  Guidelines for a Gender Analysis: Human Rights with a Gender Perspective, Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., 2000

  Despite the failure of the Unite States (US) to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the City and County of San Francisco introduced a regulation to implement CEDAW at the local level. As part of the implementation, the City department must undertake a gender analysis of its budget allocations, service delivery, and employment practices.
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  A Change in Thinking: Gender Budgeting - Now's the Time

  Oxfam, 2007

  Gender budgeting can deliver better-value services for both women and men. This CD aims to help service delivery and regeneration initiatives in the UK to take gender into account. Only then will the poorest people in society benefit from the services on offer by the State.
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  Human Development Report 1995, Chapter 4: ?Valuing Women's Work?

  United Nations Development Programme, 1995

  Much of the work that women do remains unrecognised and unvalued, particularly in economic terms. This has an impact on the status of women in society, their opportunities in public life and the failure of development policy to address gender inequalities. This chapter of the Human Development Report reflects on the scale and nature of women's economic contributions globally.
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  Gender Audit of the EU Pre-Accession Funds 1999 - 2004 (Czech Republic and Slovakia)

  Feminismus, 2005

  How has the process of European Union (EU) accession affected funding for gender-focused and women's organisations in the Czech Republic and Slovakia?

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