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    Institutions, Relations and Outcomes: Framework and Tools for Gender-Aware Planning

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1996
    There is well-documented evidence that failure to integrate gender awareness into policy and planning processes gives rise to a variety of equity, welfare and efficiency costs.
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    The Politics of Democratic Governance: Organising for Social Inclusion and Gender Equity

    One World Action, 2007
    Democratic governance involves developing institutions and processes that are more responsive to the needs of ordinary citizens.
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    Governing Women: Women's Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform

    Routledge, 2008
    Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16 per cent on average, there are some striking examples: 49 per cent of Rwanda's assembly is female, Argentina's stands at 35 per cent, and Liberia and Chile's new women presidents have raised expectations of an upward trend in women's representation, from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance.
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    Just Politics: Women Transforming Political Spaces

    One World Action, 2008
    In November 2007, the British non-governmental organisation (NGO) One World Action brought together 40 women and men from different countries of the global north and south for a unique initiative called Just Politics: Women transforming political spaces. The dialogue explored what difference women in power can make, and how women's involvement in politics can be supported and strengthened.
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    Changing their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements

    2008
    At some levels, feminist movements have lost much of the momentum, coherence and impact they seemed to have had even a decade ago, while at others, women are building their collective power in vibrant ways.
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    Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2008
    The evidence reflected throughout this report suggests that despite formal guarantees of equality, progress for many women, particularly the poorest and most marginal, has been far too slow. Who answers to women?
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    Political Cleaners: Women as the New Anti-Corruption Force?

    Development and Change Journal, 2007
    There is a myth that women are less corrupt than men. Some aid donors have cited statistical evidence that countries with larger numbers of women in politics and in the workforce have lower levels of corruption.
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    Gendering Governance

    Publishers WWW sites, 2008
    Governance has become a central concept used by policymakers and politicians at the local, national, regional and global levels - as well as by political and other social scientists.
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    Essays on Gender and Governance

    Human Development Resource Centre, India, 2003
    The relationship between gender and governance is often neglected in both conceptual and empirical work. Much influential political thought is still based on perceptions of the separation between the 'public' realms of politics, military affairs and administration and the 'private' realm of domestic and family life.
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    Gender Accountability: Services Fail Poor Women

    Gender Diversiteit Annette Evertzen, 2008
    What role can donors play in ensuring that women and girls are able to claim their right to equal access to basic services? How can donors help ensure these services are gender-sensitive? This paper considers what is needed in order to make public services - mainly health and education - work for poor women. It argues that services often fail poor women and girls in three key respects:

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