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  Stockholm Call to Action: Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights as a Development Priority

  United Nations Population Fund, 2005

  The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government of Sweden convened the high-level roundtable, ?Reducing Poverty and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights? on 11 and 12 April 2005 in Stockholm.
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  Boom-time Blues: Big Oil's Gender Impacts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Sakhalin

  Gender Action, 2006

  Why is it that extractive industries often bring massive short-term benefits to 'boom towns' but harm weaker social groups, including women, in the process?
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  Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  As efforts intensify to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, developed and developing countries have committed themselves to new partnerships and aid modalities.
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  Gender and Development: Bridging the Gap between Research and Action

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  Why should development workers address gender issues? Aside from the fact that gender equality is a basic human right and integral to development - many disparities in development outcomes stem from gender differences.
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  Women's immigration: the role and place of immigrant women in the European Union

  European Parliament, 2006

  This is a draft report produced by the European Union Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.
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  Food Security in Practice: Using Gender Research in Development

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  The aim of this practitioners' guide from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is to provide up-to-date, relevant information on why it is important to use gender and intrahousehold research to inform projects and policies. It also shows practitioners how to integrate a gender perspective into development projects, project design and public policy.
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  Millennium Development Goals Report: Challenges and Prospects for Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2004

  Although the Ethiopian constitution supports the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on gender equality and women's empowerment, several studies show that women in Ethiopia are disadvantaged due to their sex, most notably in rural areas.
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  Consultations with the Poor: A Study to Inform The World Development Report 2000/01 On Poverty and Development, Ethiopia Report

  World Bank, 1999

  This national report on Ethiopia was produced as part of a global research effort entitled Consultations with the Poor, designed to inform the World Development Report 2000/1 on Poverty and Development.
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  Negotiating the Economics of the PRSs: A Reference Guide for the Non-economist. DAC Network on Gender Equality

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2003

  The Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) process has opened up new opportunities for the wider participation of civil society in economic planning. Yet macroeconomic and structural policies continue to be negotiated predominantly between national governments and the World Bank and/or the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with little participation by civil society, especially gender specialists.
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  World Bank PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Planning) Sourcebook (Gender Chapter)

  World Bank, 2000

  Poverty is experienced differently by men and women, yet women's specific needs are often marginalised by conventional methods of poverty analysis and participatory planning, and are frequently overlooked in the design of poverty reduction strategies (PRSs). Yet evidence is growing that gender-sensitive development strategies contribute significantly to economic growth as well as to equity goals.

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