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  Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women. Task Force on Education and Gender Equality

  2005

  To accelerate progress toward achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Mark Malloch Brown launched the UN Millennium Project, a three-year effort to identify the best strategies for meeting the MDGs.
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  En Route to Equality: A Gender Review of National MDG Reports 2005

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with other partners, has been assisting partner countries in the South to prepare national Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Reports. These reports are important instruments for monitoring progress on the achievement of the MDGs and have enabled countries to take ownership of the goals.
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  Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: A Critical Analysis of the Third Millennium Development Goal

  Oxfam, 2005

  While each of the three indicators used to measure progress towards the Third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) has the potential to bring about positive changes in women's lives, they also have limits as pathways to women's empowerment.
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  Socio-economic and Gender Sensitive Indicators in the Management of Natural Resources

  2003

  In spite of the many recent UN system-wide commitments and mandates to evaluate progress made in gender mainstreaming, an assessment of the current status of socio-economic and gender-sensitive indicators in the management of natural resources revealed an almost complete lack of practical experience in this area.
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  Gender Indicators

  World Conservation Union, 2004

  Gender equity indicators measure conditions or situations that affect men and women differently; signal changes in power relations between women and men over time; determine access, use and control of resources and distribution of costs and benefits; and point out changes in living conditions and in the roles of women and men over time.
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  ILO Participatory Gender Audit

  International Labour Organization, 2007

  A Participatory Gender Audit is a tool and a process, based on participatory approaches, which assesses whether internal practices and systems for gender mainstreaming are effective and whether they are being followed. Participatory gender audits are used at an individual, team and organisational level to promote learning on how to integrate gender concerns throughout an institution.
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  Guide to Gender Sensitive Indicators

  Canadian International Development Agency, 1997

  Designed to help CIDA staff understand how to use gender-sensitive indicators, this guide reviews techniques for choosing appropriate indicators and discusses specific methodological approaches to using them at the project level. It outlines what gender-sensitive indicators are and discusses why they are useful.
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  A Quick Guide to Using Gender Sensitive Indicators: A Reference Manual for Governments and Other Stakeholders

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  This guide aims to assist governments in the selection, use and dissemination of gender-sensitive indicators at the national level. It is also relevant to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), women's groups, professional associations, academics and others committed to promoting gender equality.
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  "Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals: Innovations in Measuring and Monitoring" in Progress of the World's Women 2002 Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002

  This short section of the Progress of the World's Women takes stock of the MDGs and associated monitoring work to date, including examples of where organisations have identified, constructed and used additional indicators to measure women's status.
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  Engendering Conflict Early Warning: Lessons from UNIFEM's Solomon Islands Gendered Conflict Early Warning Project

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  Conflict early warning is the systematic collection and analysis of information from areas of crisis to anticipate the escalation of armed conflict.

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