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    Gender, Myth and Fable: The Perils of Mainstreaming in Sector Bureaucracies

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    How can advocacy for gender equity goals be strengthened in national and local sector bureaucracies and sustained through their policy processes? While in many countries there is advocacy for gender issues from civil society and grassroots organisations, this is rarely the case in national and local bureaucracies.
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    Bangladesh: Gender, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals. Country Gender Strategy

    Asian Development Bank, 2004
    Persistent gender gaps for most Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators in Bangladesh demonstrate that economic growth and rising household incomes are not necessarily enough to eradicate poverty. Women in Bangladesh remain particularly vulnerable to living in poverty. Socially prescribed roles have limited women's access to economic resources such as capital, skills and marketing know-how.
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    Building Positive Attitudes Towards Gender Equality: A Baseline Survey of Gender Quality Action Learning Programme

    2005
    A total of 1200 women and men received BRAC's Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) training in order to conduct local 'courtyard meetings' on gender equality issues with the 'ultra poor'. This baseline survey was conducted before these meetings - it assesses the pre-intervention (i) knowledge, (ii) perceptions and (iii) attitudes of 803 rural people towards gender relations in two districts.
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    From Beijing to Kyoto: Gendering the International Climate Change Negotiation Process

    Pugwash, 2003
    Despite the overt United Nations (UN) commitment requiring all UN processes to abide by the principles for mainstreaming a gender perspective, the international climate change negotiation process has not complied with these principles by assuming men and women can be treated identically and by failing to engage in gender-analysis.
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    Women's Action Agenda for a Healthy and Peaceful Planet 2015

    2002
    Women from around the world took a comprehensive global platform to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).
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    Gender and Climate Change: Networking for Gender Equality in International Climate Change Negotiations - UNFCCC COP13/CMP3

    GenderCC - women for climate justice, 2008
    How did gendercc - women for climate justice - prepare for the 13th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP13), held in Bali in 2007? To ensure that the first ever significant presence of a worldwide network of women within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process would be successful, the organisation focused their preparation on three main activities.
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    National Strategy for Equality and Gender Equality

    2005
    The Senegalese government realises that sustainable development is not possible without the elimination of inequalities between men and women. It has therefore decided to adopt a clear plan of action to address these inequalities and to fully integrate the issue of gender into the development priorities of the country.
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    Senegal Gender Audit of Energy Policies and Programmes

    2007
    Access to energy has been identified as a key factor for fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and the eradication of extreme poverty. This gender audit of energy policies and programmes in Senegal is intended to inform policies so that they effectively address the different activities and needs of men and women.
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    An approach to the Kosovo post-war rehabilitation process from a gender perspective

    L'Escola de Cultura de Pau/ The School for a Culture of Peace, 2008
    To what extent has the post-war rehabilitation process in Kosovo responded to gender perspectives? This report reflects on international intervention and analyses the role of women in promoting gender equality in post war Kosovo and bringing a gender perspective to independence negotiations.
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    The politics of what works: the case of the Vulnerable Group Development Programme in Bangladesh

    Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007
    How successful has the Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) programme in Bangladesh been at supporting very poor rural women? Since it was established in 1974 it is estimated that the VGD programme has provided monthly food rations, introductions to savings facilities and training programmes to around 2.5 million women.

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