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  Participatory Action Learning in Practice: Experience of a Rapid Participatory Review of ANANDI, India

  ANANDI Participatory Review, 2003

  How can a Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) help to empower women? ANANDI, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Gujarat, India, successfully used PALS to support women from poor and marginalised groups to identify, analyse and solve their own problems.
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  Combined Initial, Second and Third CEDAW Periodic Reports: Cambodia

  2004

  What steps has Cambodia's government taken to achieve gender equality since ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in October 2002? In this first report to the CEDAW Committee, the government outlines progress in a range of areas.
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  Impact of the Garment Industry on Rural Livelihoods. Lessons from Prey Veng Garment Workers and Rural Households

  Cooperation Committee of Cambodia, 2005

  After Prey Veng province suffered from a series of floods and natural disasters which destroyed much of its' rice production in 2001 and the years after, women travelled from Prey Veng to Phnom Penh to work in the garment industry. This report looks at the experience of the workers, and tracks the impact of the new income on rural households in terms of its finances and gender relations.
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  Gender Analysis and Assessment: Volume 1 Gender Analysis

  2006

  Cambodia is slowly recovering from decades of violence and unrest. One positive outcome of this social upheaval is that oppressive gender roles and responsibilities are being challenged. Alongside this process are efforts to improve the status of women and promote their human rights.
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  The United Nations: A Framework for Support of Gender in Cambodia

  2006

  The United Nations (UN) is committed to addressing gender concerns in Cambodia as a priority in its implementation of the UN Development Assistance Framework 2006-2010. The UN recognises that women are underrepresented politically in Cambodia and have a lower economic, social and cultural status to men.
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  Status report 2006: progress towards the goals for growth, social well-being and governance in Tanzania

  Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2006

  This report is a key output of Tanzania's National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA) for the period 2005-2010. It provides a consolidated national view of the strategy's progress based on MKUKUTA's three major clusters of desired outcomes for poverty reduction: growth, social well-being, and governance.
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  Leaving Two Thirds Out of Development: Female Headed Households and Common Property Resources in the Highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia

  2006

  Periodic drought, unsustainable livestock populations, land tenure insecurities, land degradation, a prolonged and intense civil war and fragmentation of farms have had severe impacts on the population of the Ethiopian highlands. Increasingly young men have found it harder to obtain land to establish their own farms and homesteads.
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  Achieving Women's Economic and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from Experience

  2006

  What are the greatest challenges that activists encounter in their efforts to improve economic and social rights for women? This Association of Women in Development (AWID) study, conducted in 2005, aimed to answer this question by interviewing 50 activists working in diverse settings all over the world.
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  Women's Experiences of Economic Liberalisation: Confronting Challenges, Developing Opportunities

  International Gender and Trade Network, 2006

  Although agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have often been devastating to women, their families and their communities in the United States, relatively few American women have heard of them or are debating their impact. In 2002, the Center of Concern decided to encourage women in the U.S. to begin this discussion.
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  Taking Stock: Afghan Women and Girls Five Years On

  Womankind, 2006

  Are the gains made on paper by women in Afghanistan matched by the realities on the ground? This third report in the 'Taking Stock' series finds that there have been some legal, civil and constitutional gains for women in Afghanistan over the last five years.

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