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    Gender Analysis of Budgets as a Tool for Achieving Gender Equality in the Arab World

    2002
    How can budgets become more gender-sensitive in the Arab region? This newsletter from the Economic Research Forum(ERF) highlights existing policy relevant research to assist governments, organisations and researchers to track, monitor and evaluate national and local public budgets from a gender and poverty perspective.
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    Gender Budgets and Beyond: Feminist Fiscal Policy in the Context of Globalisation

    BRIDGE, 2003
    This article is part of a special issue of Oxfam's Gender and Development journal entitled Women Reinventing Globalisation, bringing together insights drawn from the Ninth International Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). It focuses on the gender-blindness of macro-economic and fiscal policies.
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    Alternative Report of Cladem Peru on the Implementation in Peru of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

    2002
    This shadow report, led by The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights -Peru (CLADEM-Peru), contributes to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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    CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of State Parties: Peru

    United Nations, 2001
    Peru's fifth submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) outlines the status of women in Peru. The government has faced difficulties changing attitudes that discriminate against women.
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    Gender profile: Peru

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
    What is the condition of women in Peru? This gender profile by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offers a statistical overview of the condition of urban and rural women with respect to unemployment, status in the workplace, life expectancy and working and living conditions. Poverty is an ongoing concern and half the population continues to subsist below the poverty line.
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    Gendered Policy Research in the Cashew Sector in Mozambique

    BRIDGE, 2003
    This paper explores some thorny issues in feminist research. One set of issues revolves around the tension between the need to analyse structural conditions of gender subordination while avoiding stereotypical representations of women as passive victims.
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    A Bigger Piece of a Very Small Pie: Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Poverty Reduction in Africa

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Much research, some by feminists, shows that an increase in household income does not necessarily improve the well-being of all members of the household. Furthermore, research done in rural Africa finds that gender inequality is inefficient and bad for economic growth.
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    CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Egypt

    United Nations, 2000
    This submission by the government of Egypt to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) combines the fourth and fifth periodic reports, covering the period 1994 to 1998. It highlights the important role women have played in the country's development processes.
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    Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

    1998
    How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.
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    Capacity-Building in Conflict Zones: A Feminist Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance in Sri Lanka

    International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2002
    The civil war in Sri Lanka has been raging for the past twenty years and has left approximately 800,000 people internally displaced.

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