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    Urban Governance: Why Gender Matters

    Global Development Research Centre, 1996
    Women's views are rarely taken into account in urban planning processes. Yet women's needs and interests differ from men's in relation to services such as transport and health, and infrastructure. Policymakers and planners, therefore, need to take a more gender-sensitive approach so that women's needs and interests are addressed and women are included in these decision-making processes.
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    Men Matter: Scaling up Approaches to Promote Constructive Men's Engagement in Reproductive Health and Gender Equity

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2008
    In many countries, men are the primary decision makers regarding sexual activity, childbearing, and contraceptive use.
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    Gender Equality, HIV and AIDS: Challenges for the Education Sector

    2008
    How can schools help transform unequal gender relations in order to protect young people against HIV and AIDS? How can schools contribute to caring for those who are infected and affected by the virus? This book tackles these questions, examining the challenges of working for gender equality in the education sector in contexts of HIV and AIDS.
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    Gender Accountability: Services Fail Poor Women

    Gender Diversiteit Annette Evertzen, 2008
    What role can donors play in ensuring that women and girls are able to claim their right to equal access to basic services? How can donors help ensure these services are gender-sensitive? This paper considers what is needed in order to make public services - mainly health and education - work for poor women. It argues that services often fail poor women and girls in three key respects:
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    The Equal Sharing of Responsibilities Between Women and Men, Including Care-giving in the Context of HIV/AIDS

    2008
    How can we explain why care-giving responsibilities are not equally shared between men and women? Although analysing the private sphere can help account for such inequalities it is also important to understand how wider ideologies and belief systems, and inadequacies of policy and politics, also shape the way care-giving is constructed and determine the gender division of responsibilities.
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    Working with young women; empowerment, rights and health

    Promundo, 2009
    How do rigid ideas of what it means to be a woman or man affect women's life choices? This manual includes a series of group educational activities designed to help educators engage young women (15-24 years old) in reflecting on this question.
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    Gender and Care Cutting Edge Pack

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Providing care can be both a source of fulfilment and a terrible burden. For women and girls in particular, their socially prescribed role as carers can undermine their rights and limit their opportunities, capabilities and choices - posing a fundamental obstacle to gender equality and well-being.
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    Gender and Development In Brief ‘Gender and Care’ – edition 20

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    In Brief is a six page newsletter that aims to stimulate thinking on a priority gender theme. This edition focuses on gender and care, starting with an overview and recommendations followed by two distinctive case studies highlighting practical responses to key issues.
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    Gender and Care: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This Supporting Resources Collection show-cases existing work on gender and care. It presents summaries and links to key texts, tools and case studies which provide further information on the five main questions addressed in the BRIDGE Gender and Care Overview Report: How can we prompt a re-conceptualisation of care as something that is valuable and productive?
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    Stepping Stones: A Training Manual for Sexual and Reproductive Health Communication and Relationship Skills

    Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa, 1998
    Stepping Stones is a workshop series designed to provide opportunities for participants to examine their values and attitudes towards gender and relationships, to build on their knowledge of sexual health, and to develop skills to help communicate with others. The Stepping Stones training package consists of a manual which is intended to be used in its entirety with peer group participants.

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