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  Helping the families of home-based workers break the cycle of poverty

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008

  In Asia there are millions of home-based women workers and the vast majority are poor. How can the risks and vulnerabilities these women face be reduced? And what can be done to help the children of home-based workers escape poverty?
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  Living in the background: home-based women workers and poverty persistence

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2007

  This paper examines the relationship between home-based work and persistent poverty in certain parts of South and South East Asia. The author argues that an expanded conception of social protection is needed if poverty prevention initiatives are to be effective in the case of home-based women workers.
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  Gender action plans and gender equality results: rapid gender assessments of ADB Projects. Synthesis report

  Asian Development Bank, 2007

  The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) 1998 Gender and Development (GAD) policy identified gender mainstreaming as a key strategy for addressing gender inequity. Project-specific gender action plans (GAPs) were introduced as a mechanism to implement the policy.
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  Female autonomy and gender gaps in education in Pakistan

  Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2007

  This study examines whether improving female autonomy in Pakistan has consequences for child education and whether female-heads are more equalising in their educational expenditure allocations than male heads. The descriptive statistics point to larger pro-male biases in education in male-headed-households than in female-headed-households (FHHs).
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  Gender mainstreaming project: the gender issue

  Eldis Document Store, 2007

  What is gender mainstreaming and how can gender equality be achieved? This paper gives a brief introduction to gender and how mainstreaming relates to poverty reduction. It provides an overview of gender inequality in Pakistan, looks at gender and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how to make MDG reporting gender-sensitive.
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  Gender Mainstreaming Project in Planning and Development Division, Government of Pakistant

  This 3-year project, involved in building capacity for gender mainstreaming, has the following objectives:
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  Migration, school attainment and child labor: evidence from rural Pakistan

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Does temporary economic migration increase investment in education by the poor, reduce child labour and improve girls’ access to education?
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  Protection solutions for displaced women and children

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Women and children face unique risks during times of conflict and related displacement, including rape, domestic violence, child abuse, exploitative labour and so on. In these situations, community-based programs, designed in consultation with affected women and children, offer the most sustainable protection.
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  Human rights and dignity of Dalit women: report of the conference in the Hague, 20-25 November 2006

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2006

  This report summarises the proceedings and the outcomes the 1st Conference on the Rights of Dalit Women held in The Hague, Netherlands.
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  Hearing their voices: the women and children in the earthquake affected areas of Pakistan

  Duryog Nivaran: South Asia Network for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2006

  This report provides an insight, through interviews and observations, into the issues faced by women and children affected by the earthquake in Pakistan.

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