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  BRIDGE Report 52: Environmentally Sustainable Development and Poverty: A Gender Analysis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997

  How would environmentally sustainable development look if it was gender-sensitive? This report argues that much mainstream literature on environmentally sustainable development has ignored the gender dimensions. Where women have been the target of programmes, they have been seen as natural managers of environmental resources.
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  Open Learning System of Adult Education for Empowering Women in India

  Commonwealth of Learning, 2003

  Although there have been improvements over the past twenty years, there remains a significant gender disparity in literacy in India. The rise in women's employment has largely been made possible by the provision of opportunities such as the distance education system, open universities, women's universities and women's studies centres and non-formal adult education.
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  BRIDGE Report 50: Economic Reform and Poverty: A Gender Analysis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997

  Economic reform in many developing countries is associated with structural adjustment programmes supported by international financial institutions (IFIs). Many countries have experienced increases in poverty or greater inequality. There is increasing evidence of negative effects of structural adjustment on women, particularly on poor women.
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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  Women in the People's Republic of China: Country Briefing Paper

  Asian Development Bank, 1998

  While the transition to a social market economy has benefits for women, there are indications that the adoption of the market-oriented reforms has also resulted in gender inequality. Women workers in the People's Republic of China (PRC) are likely to be laid off first and have restricted access to more secure jobs.
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  Report on Gender Budget Analysis of Taxation in Uganda, Focusing on Central Government Taxation carried out by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)

  BRIDGE, 2003

  While most work on gender-sensitive budgets focuses on expenditure, this FOWODE study in Uganda demonstrates the importance of a gendered tax policy impact assessment and evaluation. Any examination of government revenue tends to be difficult and often more politically sensitive than a gender analysis of expenditure.
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  Fiscal Policy, Accountability and Voice: the Example of Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives, background paper for the Human Development Report (HDR) 2002

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  Processes to bring broader public accountability for fiscal policy in ways that are sensitive to the needs of poor women and men are still in their infancy. Gender responsive budget initiatives (GRBIs) seek to widen governance and accountability structures by bringing women's voices to discussions on public spending, revenue-raising and debt.
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  Budgeting for Equity: Gender Budget Initiatives within a Framework of Performance Oriented Budgeting

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  Can performance-oriented budgeting serve as a framework for making budgets more gender responsive? This question is set in the context of recent public sector reforms to make public expenditure more 'results based' as part of the 'good governance' agenda.
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  Gender Budgets: What's in it for NGOs?

  BRIDGE, 2002

  Over the last seven years, there has been increasing interest in gender budget work worldwide. There are, however, big differences between the initiatives in different countries. In particular, in some cases the initiatives have been located inside government; in other cases in Parliament; and in yet others within civil society.

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