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  Gender, Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

  Minority Rights Group, 2004

  Although both minority and indigenous men and women experience discrimination, it is minority and indigenous women who most suffer multiple discriminations and therefore have less access to education, health and other services and resources. They face discrimination because of their identification with the group and from those who view women as inferior.
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  Pakistan Enhanced HIV/AIDS Program: Social assessment and mapping of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Lahore, Pakistan

  Naz Foundation International, 2002

  Expressions of affection between people of the same sex are easily accepted in Pakistan but in contrast, women's contact with men is controlled and socially policed. Many men have sexual relations with each other, and finding male sexual partners is easy.
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  Gender in Monitoring and Evaluation in Rural Development: A Toolkit

  World Bank, 2001

  Inclusive rural development requires recognition that women play a significant role in the survival strategies of poor rural households. This toolkit seeks to help World Bank staff and partners recognise and address gender concerns during the design of rural development sector projects.
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  Development of a Rights Based Monitoring Tool for CARE Malawi

  2004

  Understanding discrimination is the key to understanding and combating the barriers faced by the poor and marginalised to realising their rights and achieving sustainable livelihoods. Discrimination is defined as treating someone differently especially because of one's own feelings or prejudices about, for example, a person's sex, race, and religion.
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  Strategies for Poverty Alleviation in India: CYSD's Holistic Approach to Empowerment Through the Self-help Group Model

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Providing credit is the primary goal of microfinance projects. But on its own this can be an ineffective response to chronic poverty. Research from India has shown that projects which take a broader approach can yield surprising results. A report from India's Utkal University describes the model of self-help groups used by the Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD).
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  Why eat green cucumbers at the time of dying?: women’s literacy and development in Nepal

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2000

  Why should people take on new literacy practices when they feel they are able to communicate adequately? Is 'traditional' literacy the key to women's empowerment? In Nepal, as elsewhere, there has been an explosion of literacy programmes due to the popular perception that this is the case. This report questions whether such programmes meet women's needs from the point of view of participants.
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  CEDAW Combined Second and Third Periodic Reports of States Parties: Indonesia

  United Nations, 1997

  This report outlines the status of women in Indonesia as of 1997, the last time Indonesia made a submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of CEDAW. Indonesia has had a Minister of State for the Role of Women since 1978. In the years leading up to 1997, the country experienced rapid economic growth that substantially changed the status of women.
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  BRIDGE Report 52: Environmentally Sustainable Development and Poverty: A Gender Analysis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997

  How would environmentally sustainable development look if it was gender-sensitive? This report argues that much mainstream literature on environmentally sustainable development has ignored the gender dimensions. Where women have been the target of programmes, they have been seen as natural managers of environmental resources.
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  Gender Makes a Difference: Gender Analysis Workshop Increases Skills of Those Working to Link Agriculture and Nutrition

  Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2003

  Gender analysis is rarely used to improve the effectiveness of nutrition interventions and their links to agriculture to reduce hunger and malnutrition. To address this issue, the third Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project workshop was held for ICRW/IFPRI/USAID country team members from Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda.
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.

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