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    Youth behavioral risks and psychosocial resources in Peru’s alternative-development zones

    Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2004
    This paper looks at the three particularly high behavioural risks youth face in Peru’s central-eastern coca cropping areas – sexual risks; use of alcohol and drugs; and violence against women.
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    Sexual and reproductive rights and health: perceptions, problems and priorities identified by Asháninka Women of the Río Ene Region

    International Women's Health Coalition, 2003
    This document, produced by the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), is the executive summary (in English) of a report only available in Spanish.
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    Health rights and realities, an analysis of the ReproSalud project in Peru

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2001
    This report, produced by the Centre for Health and Gender Equity, reviews the first five years of the ReproSalud project (a joint initiative of USAID and the Peruvian feminist organisation Movimiento Manuela Ramos) and explores how ReproSalud has contributed to the advancement of women’s sexual and reproductive health rights in Peru.
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    Men and reproductive health programs: influencing gender norms

    Synergy Project, USAID, 2003
    This review outlines programs in Central America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia that are designed to change social norms related to entrenched gender roles. It explains the methodologies each program employed to achieve this goal and presents findings from evaluations conducted to assess their efficacy.
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    Unsafe schools: a literature review of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries

    US Agency for International Development, 2003
    In an attempt to counter the lack of systemic information on the prevalence and consequences of violence in formal educational settings, this report reviews a number of country-specific studies on school-related gender-based violence.
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    The persistence of memory: feminism and the state in Peru in the 1990s

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    Peruvian feminism, along with the Brazilian and Mexican feminist movements, was one of the most visible women's movements in the region over the past decades.
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    The women food organisation and their relationship with government

    Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
    The emergence of the women food organizations (WFO) at the beginning of the 1980s has increased the density of the social web of Peruvian society. The participation of the WFO in the national economy is significant, since it contributes 0.81% of the DGP, allows participation of 10% of the population, and moves more than 400 million dollars.
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    Focusing on women works: research on improving micronutrient status through food-based interventions

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 1999
    Synthesis of five studies, undertaken in Ethiopia, Kenya, Peru, Tanzania, and Thailand, included intervention trails and measurement of impacts.The results suggest that it is possible to increase the effectiveness of micronutrient interventions (including Vitamin A, iron, iodine) by increasing women’s active participation in problem solving and by increasing their access to such key resources
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    Genders and generations in urban shantytown development

    Global Development Network, 2000
    This study deals with two genders, two generations, and three processes over time. It is set in urban Peru, on the outskirts of the capital Lima, and one of the processes concerns the settlement and consolidation of a shanty community. The second process concerns household life cycles, described from the very different points of view of husbands and wives and their adolescent children.

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