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  Gender and Conflict Early Warning: a Framework for Action

  Swiss Peace Foundation, 2002

  Early warning systems are playing an ever more crucial role in identifying areas at risk of violent conflict. This paper presents an initial framework on how to engender early warning systems and proposes a list of gender-sensitive early warning indicators to better ensure that previously overlooked signs of instability are taken into account.
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  Chapter 7: Monitoring and Evaluation, in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2003

  This chapter discusses monitoring and evaluation of actions designed to protect against sexual and gender-based violence against refugees and internally displaced persons. It outlines six actions that should guide the development of a monitoring or evaluation system. One step is to establish coordinated and common reporting tools.
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  Uncounted and Discounted: a Secondary Data Research Project on Violence against Women in Afghanistan

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  To date there has been little research regarding the nature and extent of violence against women in Afghanistan. To address this gap, The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Afghanistan analysed data collected by service organisations and agencies working throughout the country.
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  Strategic Impact Inquiry on Women's Empowerment: Report of Year 1

  CARE International, 2005

  This report presents the findings from the first year of CARE's Strategic Impact Inquiry into Women's Empowerment. One striking result of the inquiry was the general lack of attention within CARE to defining what is meant by women's empowerment.
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  Women's Empowerment as a Variable in International Development

  2002

  Measuring 'empowerment' depends on the establishment of universal standards (such as human rights), but at the same time it must allow for indicators which are sensitive to context. Further difficulties arise from the need to measure empowerment as a process as opposed to a fixed condition or outcome.
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  Measuring Empowerment: A Methodological Approach

  2003

  How do we decide how empowered a woman or group of women are? Do frequently used socio-economic indicators such as education, income, and labour force participation adequately capture women's 'empowerment'? This paper argues that while these quantitative socio-economic measures of empowerment are useful indicators, they are not sensitive enough to capture the nuances of gender power relations.
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  A Menu of Options for Intra-Household Poverty Assessment

  2006

  Most measures of household poverty, based on income and consumption, assume that all resources that enter the household are shared equally by household members. Yet, in reality, some members may be relatively more privileged than others, commanding more income and accessing greater consumption opportunities. Often it is women, children and the elderly who are most disproportionately affected.
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  Gender, Time Use, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

  World Bank, 2005

  It is not always clear what is meant by 'time poverty', nor how time poverty is measured. Time poverty can be understood as the fact that some people, most often women, do not have enough time for rest and leisure after taking into account the time they spend working, whether in the labour market, for domestic work, or for activities such as fetching water and wood.
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  Re-thinking the ??Feminization of Poverty?? in Relation to Aggregate Gender Indices

  Routledge, 2006

  This paper recognises that the United Nations Development Programme's indicators - the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) (see section 6.2) - do not adequately measure the gendered dimensions of poverty, and suggests ways to work towards aggregate indices that are more sensitive to gender gaps in poverty.
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  Accountability Upside Down: Gender Equality in a Partnership for Poverty Eradication

  Social Watch, 2005

  Until recently, projects or programmes were the principal mechanism through which donors provided development assistance to partner countries. Yet, with the introduction of new aid mechanisms, donor funds are increasingly being channelled to partner governments through direct budget support.

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