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    National Strategy for Equality and Gender Equality

    2005
    The Senegalese government realises that sustainable development is not possible without the elimination of inequalities between men and women. It has therefore decided to adopt a clear plan of action to address these inequalities and to fully integrate the issue of gender into the development priorities of the country.
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    Young Feminist Activism Program

    2007
    AWID's Young Feminist Activism Program (YWL - formerly Young Women and Leadership) supports and mobilises younger activists by creating opportunities for engagement, innovative research projects, capacity building activities and multi-generational dialogues. The programme works with participants to create independent spaces for young women to debate, discuss, analyse and plan.
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    Progress Report on Women and Gender Development

    Tanzania Ministry of Community Development Gender and Children, 2003
    This report maps progress on Tanzania's commitment to tackling gender inequality in light of the government's signing and ratification of international and regional agreements including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Gender and Development Declaration by Heads of State and Government of Southern African Development Corporation (SADC).
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    Gender Profile of the Conflict in Kosovo

    2007
    Kosovar women experienced the 1999 conflict in a multitude of ways. While in a few cases they took up arms, the majority lived through the crisis as civilians. Thousands of Kosovar women were victims of ?ethnic cleansing? and thousands were killed.
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    Whose Sexualities Count: Poverty, Participation and Sexual Rights

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    This paper asks: what do sexuality, sexual rights and sexual pleasure have to do with citizenship, participation and rights?
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    Stronger Women Stronger Nations - 2007 Kosovo Report: Amplifying the Voices of Women in Kosovo

    Women for Women International, 2007
    Women for Women International conducted this survey of over 1,600 participants in conjunction with the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), and American University to raise awareness about the critical link between women's economic, social and political participation and long-term peace and stability in Kosovo.
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    Toolkit for Mainstreaming Gender in UN-HABITAT Field Programmes

    2003
    The way in which men and women are affected by conflict differs, as do their needs, views and priorities in rebuilding their society after war. It is therefore critical that post-conflict interventions recognise these differences and develop gender mainstreamed activities to effectively address the needs of men and women, and boys and girls.
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    The Gender Equity Index (GEI) Reports: No Country in the World Treats its Women as Well as its Men

    Social Watch, 2005
    The Gender Equity Index (GEI), which was developed by Social Watch in 2004, shows that there is not a single country in the world today where women have the same opportunities as men. This paper describes the GEI, which ranks 134 countries on a scale of 1 to 12 and allows comparisons of women's situations in these countries over time.
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    Accountability for the Progress of Women: Women Demanding Action

    2000
    What mechanisms are there for holding government to account over international commitments to furthering gender equality? How can we measure if government policy commitments to gender equality are backed up by resource commitments?
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    Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006
    How can gender budget analysis help to monitor government compliance with CEDAW? And equally, how can CEDAW help to provide guidance for gender-sensitive budget initiatives (GBIs)? CEDAW (especially Article 7) obliges governments to take all appropriate measures to ensure that women participate on equal terms with men in budget decision processes.

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