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  Women as Natural Environmental Carers: Earth Mother Myths and Other Ecofeminist Fables or How a Strategic Notion Rose and Fell

  BRIDGE, 2003

  The notion that women are closer to nature, naturally caring for land, water, forests and other aspects of the environment, has held powerful sway in certain development circles since the 1980s. This has led to problematic programmes which gave women responsibility to protect the environment without resources or power to do so. Since the 1990s such ?ecofeminist?
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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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  Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.
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  Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management: A Practical Journey to Sustainability

  2003

  This guide serves as a comprehensive and practical tool to help project managers, gender specialists and researchers to mainstream gender into water management. Mainstreaming gender in this area is critical to reaching the Millenium Development Goals.
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  Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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  Gender, Conservation, and Community Participation: the Case of the Ja£ National Park, Brazil

  Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis, 1999

  How do gender relations affect people's knowledge, use and control of and impact on natural resources? The Funda?Æo Vit¢ria Amaz?nica (FVA) is a local NGO which has carried out pioneer work on gender, community participation and partnership building in their conservation activities in the Ja£ National Park (PNJ).
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 1: Environmental Policy

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1995

  Have recent changes in environmental policy produced real benefits for women' Evidence suggests that many projects fail to promote women's interests.

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