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  SASA! An Activist Kit for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV

  2008

  SASA! is a comprehensive and user-friendly program tool to help organizations, institutions, and groups interested in mobilizing communities to prevent violence against women and HIV
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  Disability and gender: the case of the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2011

  Addressing gender gaps is a major development objective anywhere in the world. This paper aims to illustrate that this is far more critical in the presence of another social layer - disability. Among persons with disability (PWDs), the gap between men and women are more distinct, their conditions more dismal with poverty as their needs are different.
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  Challenges in the economic participation of women as entrepreneurs

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015

  Filipino women are active as entrepreneurs. Data from the Department of Trade and Industry for 2009 show that 54 percent of enterprises are owned by women.
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  Promoting women`s participation in the APEC economies: some recommendations

  2015

  Increasing women`s economic participation is not yet universally accepted despite three decades of global advocacy; and women empowerment and gender equality are still a work in progress. A mechanism that can be tapped to promote women`s economic participation is the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
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  Increasing economic opportunities of women in the APEC

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015

  This study seeks to review the APEC regional agenda of increasing economic
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  Labor policy analysis for jobs expansion and development

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014

  The Philippines is at a crossroad. It can choose to continue to follow current unrealistic policies that despite good intentions have been shown to be actually detrimental to the poor. Or, it can elect to try another development path to get a better chance at reducing poverty.
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  14. The culture of patriarchy and its effects on the human rights of girl-children in Cagayan de Oro and Claveria, Misamis Oriental: implications to policy formulation

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015

  The Philippines, as a signatory of various international declarations, is one with other countries in instituting programs and policies to protect women and children. Despite this, the effectiveness of these measures cannot be established as patriarchy remains evident in Philippine culture.
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  Gender assessment of the refugee and migration crisis in Serbia and fYR Macedonia

  UN Women, 2016

  Over one million men, women, and children travelled to Western Europe to claim asylum in 2015, with many transiting through Turkey, Greece, and the Western Baltics on their way north.
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  The role of discriminatory social institutions in female South-South migration

  OECD Development Centre, 2014

  Migration patterns, choices and outcomes are not gender neutral. Women account for almost half of all global migration, and within that are a number of important gendered differences and considerations that must be explored and accounted for.
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  Women and girls failed: the Burundian refugee response in Tanzania

  Refugees International, 2015

  Since April 2015, political instability and violence has rocked Burundi, forcing an estimated 220,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries. Approximately half of these refugees are women, and around half of the many women who reported gender-based violence (GBV) upon reaching refugee camps in Tanzania required post-rape care.

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