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    A user’s guide to measuring gender-sensitive basic service delivery

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2009
    This Guide is intended as a generic and basic tool to map and analyse governance of basic service delivery through a gendered lens. It seeks to improve the measurements of basic services delivery in various areas of governance.
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    Transforming security and development in an unequal world: introduction

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Ruling administrations often determine security policy and direct its apparatus for the 'benefit of society'. But is security something to be grateful for, or a citizens’ right? Rather should security be determined by the concerns of ordinary citizens and so incorporate a range of perspectives to reflect the differing needs of the different sectors of society?
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    Measuring gender and women’s empowerment using confirmatory factor analysis

    Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, 2005
    This paper develops a new method for constructing measures of gender and women’s empowerment with cross-sectional survey data.
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    Empowered and equal: gender equality strategy 2008-2011

    United Nations Development Programme, 2007
    This document presents the UNDP’s Gender Equality Strategy (GES) 2008-11. It is grounded in the premise that the development objective of equality between men and women, or gender equality, is absolutely indivisible from the UNDP human development goal of real improvements in people’s lives and in the choices and opportunities open to them.
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    A mandate to mainstream: promoting gender equality in Afghanistan

    Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2009
    Gender mainstreaming is an example of policy transferred across different national contexts and has been added to the mix of international prescriptions for rebuilding the Afghan state. This study explores the ways that mainstreaming is being implemented in Afghanistan. It examines whether it could be useful or effective as one of various means to further gender equality.
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    Liberia is not just a man thing: transitional justice lessons for women, peace and security

    International Center for Transitional Justice, 2008
    The experiences of Liberian women have much to teach the world about women’s role in peacebuilding. Not only were women strategic in influencing Liberia’s 2003 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, but Liberia also boasts the first elected woman head of state on the African continent.
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    Housing for the landless: resettlement in Tsunami-affected Aceh, Indonesia

    Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2008
    Women often face pre-displacement constraints on rights to land, and are at greater risk of losing access to land after disasters. Yet, the aftermath of a disaster is the time when women most need land for recovery. This paper is structured to reflect these concerns about women and land rights in disaster-affected Indonesia.
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    Equality for women: a handbook for NHRIs on economic, social and cultural rights

    Equitas- International Centre for Human Rights Education, 2008
    Like all standards and aspirations, women's economic, social and cultural rights ultimately depend on the ability to enforce them.This handbook is intended as a specific tool for national human rights institutions to enhance their work in protecting and promoting women’s equality through economic, social and cultural rights.
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    Women MPs struggle to represent collective gender interests in Afghanistan

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Women have achieved a sizeable presence in Afghanistan’s new National Assembly. This process of fast-tracking women into positions of power has negatively affected their perceived legitimacy, however. Despite the physical presence of women in the Afghan Parliament, so far, gender issues have rarely been raised.
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    Making decentralisation work for children in Andhra Pradesh, India

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The Indian Government is committed to reducing child poverty. With decentralisation, state governments are expected to implement programmes relevant to child welfare. An analysis of budget allocations indicates that policy objectives are not being supported with funding that prioritises child-focused programmes.

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