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    Handbook for cultural and religious leaders to end FGM

    African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2014
    What action can you take to address FGM? This handbook, produced by the African Women’s Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) is a behaviour change communication tool intended to expand the engagement of men in religious and cultural institutions to reach out to their communities to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) in Meru and Tharaka, Kenya.
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    Guidelines for parliamentarians: abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting

    Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa, 2012
    At least 28 countries on the African continent practice some form of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C). Believing that FGM/C could be eradicated within a generation if appropriate actions are taken, the Association of European parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) and the Pan-African Parliament Women’s Caucus initiated a campaign to champion the cause among parliamentarians.
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    Cambiando su mundo: Conceptos y prácticas de los movimientos de mujeres (2nda edición) (Español)

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011
    ¿Qué es lo que diferencia a los movimientos d
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    New actors, new money, new conversations: a mapping of recent initiatives for women and girls

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    Over the past several years, investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’ has become a favored strategy in development and philanthropy. This has precipitated a host of campaigns and initiatives, including new private-sector involvement, dedicated to supporting women and girls.
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    Women moving mountains: collective impact of the Dutch MDG3 fund

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    Through decades of collective and individual struggle, and determined, conscious design, the women’s rights movement has achieved unprecedented shifts in global perception to the notion of gender equality as a desirable goal.
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    Watering the leaves, starving the roots: the status of financing for women's rights organizing and gender equality

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    In the foreword to this report, AWID Executive Director Lydia Alpízar writes that she finds it, “truly surprising… that women’s rights organising and movements have been functioning, often with quite minimal financial support, even as their experience and effectiveness has increased.”
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    Turning information into empowerment: strengthening gender and energy networking in Africa

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2008
    Mainstream energy policies fail to apply a gender-sensitive approach, and have largely ignored the crucial roles that rural women play in energy systems. This report follows a two and a half year-long project: Turning Information into Empowerment: Strengthening Gender and Energy Networking in Africa (TIE-ENERGIA).
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    Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007
    In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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    For her it's the big issue: putting women at the centre of water supply, sanitation and hygiene.

    Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, 2006
    Lack of basic sanitation and safe water is a major issue for women and girls who live in poor and overcrowded areas.
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    ENERGIA e-learning in gender and energy

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2014
    Development projects, programmes and policies that explicitly address gender and energy issues result in better outcomes in terms of the sustainability of energy services as well as human development. The International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA) has created this online course to introduce these concepts.

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