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    Focus. Empowering Women

    United Nations Development Programme, 2005
    The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) supports Palestinian women through a wide range of initiatives - reviewed in this magazine. Training on gender and women's rights and assistance in gender mainstreaming is provided by UNDP to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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    New Federal Policies Affecting Women's Equality: Reality Check

    Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    In 2006, the new Conservative federal government of Canada made policy changes which dramatically affected women's equality provisions. The justification for the measures was that women were already treated equally to men and did not need policy support.
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    2007 Federal Budget Overview: Not a Budget for Women

    2007
    Who benefits most from Canada's 2007 Federal Budget? According to this report, it is high earning men with a stay-at-home partner or wife. The report shows how women in Canada are affected differently than men by tax and spending policies of governments as a result of their varying labour market opportunities, family and community responsibilities, and levels of economic security.
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    Effective Practices in Sheltering Women. Leaving Violence in Intimate Relationships

    World Young Women's Christian Association, 2006
    What do Canadian women want from emergency shelters and how can shelter services be improved? This research documents the journey of 368 abused women as they entered and left emergency shelters in ten locations across Canada. The paper describes the nature of partner abuse, identifies the strategies that women adopted, and highlights what the women needed most from emergency shelters.
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    Disentangling The Web of Women's Poverty and Exclusion

    Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    The Canadian Government boasts eight years of budget surpluses but still there are increasing numbers of people living in poverty.
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    CIDA's Policy on Gender Equality

    Canadian International Development Agency, 1999
    How does the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) support the goal of gender equality as part of its strategy to achieve sustainable development? This paper describes CIDA's gender equality policy and outlines its goals, objectives and strategies.
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    Background Note on the UN Reform Process and New Women's Architecture in the UN, Plus Accountability to Women's Rights in Canada

    Canadian Committee on Women and the UN Reform, 2006
    This paper provides the background to the call from women's organisations for a strong, independent body on gender equality and women's rights at the United Nations (UN). Reflecting the lack of coherent strategies on gender equality at the UN, this paper also suggests that the Canadian Government improves its approach to gender equality issues.
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    Gender Equality & United Nations Reform: A Resource Packet

    2007
    How did women's organisations and networks respond to the new gender equality architecture proposed by the United Nations (UN) High-Level Panel on UN System-Wide Coherence? What actions are women's groups taking? This resource pack outlines the UN's recommendations, gives information on the UN processes and provides statements of response from women's groups in South Asia, Africa and elsewhere.
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    A Place at the Table: Afghan Women, Men and Decision Decision-making Authority

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2005
    What constitutes gender issues in the Afghan context? What opportunities exist for improving gender-sensitive programming, policy formulation and indicators of success? This briefing paper acknowledges that Afghan women have made certain gains in the post-Taleban era, particularly in national-level legal and political arenas but also at the local level of development interventions.
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    Linking Livelihoods and Gender Analysis for Achieving Gender Transformative Change

    2006
    While natural resource programmes, and the dominant frameworks they adopt (such as the Harvard Framework), have often incorporated collection and analysis of data around roles and access and control over assets, they have largely failed to adopt broader political goals of gender equality.

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