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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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    Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
    This paper examines how agricultural technologies influence and are influenced by the diverse livelihood strategies, vulnerability context, relations of gender and power, and other conditions of the poor. It reports findings of a CGIAR research project including seven case studies of different types of agricultural research:
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    Mangroves: local livelihoods vs. corporate profits

    World Rainforest Movement, 2003
    This book gathers a selection of articles published in the monthly electronic bulletin of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), addressing the issue of the processes leading to the destruction of mangrove forests and the struggles developed at the local and global levels to protect and use these forests in a socially equitable and environmentally adequate manner.The articles give an overview of
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    Politics and Power: A Gendered Perspective from South Asia

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2003
    This paper produced for Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)'s Political Restructuring and Social Transformation Programme outlines the spaces, strategies and contradictions arising from women's political involvement in South Asia.
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    Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002
    This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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    Trade Intensification in Asia Economies: What it Means to Women's Work

    Women and Gender Institute, 2002
    This is the first in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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    Big business, small hands: responsible approaches to child labour

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    International outcry has forced big business to adopt the elimination of child labour as a social responsibility. But can corporate codes of conduct move beyond ‘quick fix’ solutions and ensure fair ethical treatment of child workers?
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    Coping with conflict? Meeting the needs of older people

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Who looks out for older people in a conflict or disaster? Elders, often ignored and denied precious resources in a crisis, in fact survive precisely because they have learnt over a lifetime how to cope. Why do aid agencies disregard such useful sources of knowledge?
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    Boys on film: challenging masculinities in South Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    How can men give 100 percent support to women in their battle against violence? Does the media have a role to play? Save the Children Fund and UNICEF have examined the potential of film to help boys in South Asia question their attitudes towards gender.
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    Fighting fears. How to help South Asia's women beat poverty and prejudice

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Two out of three of the world’s poor people are female. In South Asia, more women and girls than males never have enough to eat. Unsurprisingly, life expectancy among South Asia's women is also lower than that for males. An inquiry by UNIFEM and the Aga Khan Foundation into economic empowerment for women in South Asia set out to enquire: How does poverty among women arise?

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