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  Gender Guide to World Bank and IMF Policy-Based Lending

  Gender Action, 2006

  Why do World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) policy-based loans, and associated reforms (or 'loan conditionalities') generally bypass local democratic processes and contribute to the feminisation of poverty?
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  Access to Land in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Implications for the South African Black Woman

  Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2006

  Indigenous land tenure arrangements in South Africa have generally consisted of communal ownership. In this system, who benefited from the land depended on their status as family or clan head.
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  That Place is "kwaMnyamandawo"

  2004

  Problems of homelessness are rooted in the historical dispossession and dislocation of Africans generally, and African women in particular, by the colonial and apartheid state in South Africa. At present, housing policy frameworks are constructed around the assumption of a male-headed nuclear family.
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  Reducing the Burden of HIV and AIDS Care on Women and Girls

  Voluntary Services Overseas, 2006

  Community and home-based care, delivered with little support from the public health system, is currently the key response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic globally. Due to traditional gender norms and unequal gender relations, it is women and girls who generally assume primary responsibility for providing this care, whilst possibly being HIV-positive, and often needing care themselves.
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  Gender and climate change research workshop: what do we know? what do we need to find out?

  Genanet, 2005

  In 2005, 23 participants gathered to discuss gender and climate change related research, and its role and use in women's / gender related advocacy in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. Three questions were addressed: What do we need to know about gender and climate change to influence UNFCCC negotiations?
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  Improving women's lives: World Bank actions since Beijing

  World Bank, 2006

  The World Bank is committed to helping member countries fulfil the Beijing Platform for Action and recognises that gender equality is critical to development and poverty reduction. The World Bank's emphasis on gender increased after the 1995 Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women.
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  Financial Law Project 2006. Gender Report

  Ministry of Finance and Privatization, Morocco, 2005

  In Morocco, the introduction of a Gender Report annexed to the 2006 Economic and Financial Report is one of the outcomes of the budget reform, which is moving towards a results-oriented and gender-sensitive management of public funds.
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  Moving Ahead: Gender budgeting in Sweden

  Ministry of Industry Employment and Communications, Sweden, 2006

  In 2004, the Swedish government launched a five-year Plan for Gender Mainstreaming in government offices, setting objectives in four main areas: management and control, methods and procedures, training, and co-ordination.
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  Initial Study of Lifestyles, Consumption Patterns: Do Women Leave a Smaller Ecological Footprint Than Men?

  Ministry of Sustainable Development, Sweden, 2006

  What links are there between gender, consumption and sustainable lifestyles? Are the 'lifestyles' and consumption patterns of Swedish women (and those internationally) a function of the greater responsibility they take for unpaid domestic and reproductive work?
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  Engendered Measurement of Extension Effort in Nyamazura Area of Mutare District - Implications for Extension and Research Policy for Smallholder Support

  BRIDGE, 2006

  Why is gender-disaggregated information about farmer perspectives on extension work important? The local farmers' association in the Nyamazura scheme of Mutare district of Zimbabwe complained about a decline in service delivery after the Land Reform Programme of 2000.

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