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  Gender Budgets: What's in it for NGOs?

  BRIDGE, 2002

  Over the last seven years, there has been increasing interest in gender budget work worldwide. There are, however, big differences between the initiatives in different countries. In particular, in some cases the initiatives have been located inside government; in other cases in Parliament; and in yet others within civil society.
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  How to Make the Law Work? Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence Policies in Latin America

  2003

  How can domestic violence be reduced in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? This synthesis research paper demonstrates that to make domestic violence policy work there needs to be sufficient budgetary allocations to enable the laws enacted in these countries to translate into action.
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  Gender Impacts of Government Revenue Collection: The Case of Taxation

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  Are tax systems gender neutral? Assessing taxation and revenue from a gender perspective is no easy task. Political and technical constraints help to explain why most work to date has focused on expenditure. This paper provides information to assist in the analysis of potential gender bias in tax systems and help the design of gender-sensitive revenue measures.
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  International Gender and Trade Network: WTO Fifth Ministerial Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, September 10-14th, 2003 (Position Papers on Four WTO Issues)

  2003

  The IGTN Advocacy Document for the 5th WTO Ministerial Meeting that was held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003 focuses on these four issues and identifies critical advocacy positions for each of them.
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  Women Hold Up Half the Sky

  2003

  This series of eight training videos which accompanies the above workbook is for learning about the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its relevance to women's daily lives. These short narrative dramas showing the effects of patriarchy on women and girls are based on real life stories.
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  Shifting Spaces: Women, Citizenship and Migration within the European Union

  Polity Press, 1998

  This book is based on a research project examining the gender dimensions of internal migration in the European Union (EU). The impact of EU membership on the citizenship experience of female EU nationals as they migrate from one member country to another is explored.
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  Gender and Citizenship: Learning from South Africa?

  Agenda Feminist Publishing, 2001

  In what ways does political transformation mean a change in meanings and practice of citizenship - in the relationships between individuals and the state? This paper discusses the experiences of women, particularly black women, of citizenship in South Africa, where the new administration promised a new politics based on civil society and universal citizenship.
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  Governing for Equity, Gender, Citizenship and Governance

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2003

  This publication comes out of the Gender, Citizenship and Governance programme of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands. The project aimed to develop good practice in changing governance institutions to promote gender equality, enhance citizen participation and build accountability of public administration systems.
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  Promoting Gender Equity in the Democratic Process: women's Paths to Political Participation and Decisionmaking

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2000

  How can women be integrated in processes of democratisation? The participation of women in political and economic processes is essential for democratic governance. The PROWID grants system supported activities such as lobbying and advocacy, skills development and developing institutions to further women's social and economic rights.
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  Gender Budgets and Beyond: Feminist Fiscal Policy in the Context of Globalisation

  BRIDGE, 2003

  This article is part of a special issue of Oxfam's Gender and Development journal entitled Women Reinventing Globalisation, bringing together insights drawn from the Ninth International Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). It focuses on the gender-blindness of macro-economic and fiscal policies.

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