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  Local government responses to HIV/AIDS: a handbook

  World Bank, 2003

  This handbook is written for local government authorities (LGA) that are interested in developing or strengthening local responses to HIV/AIDS.
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  The impact of the Global Gag Rule in Zambia

  Access denied: impacts of the global gag rule, 2003

  This paper assesses the impact that the Global Gag Rule has had on Zambia’s reproductive health situation. The Global Gag Rule prohibits US assistance to foreign NGOs that use funding from any other source to fund abortions in cases other than exceptional.The paper demonstrates that Zambia has a relatively liberal abortion law, but in practice access to abortion is heavily restricted.
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  Do Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) address gender? A gender audit of 2002 PRSPs

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper provides an audit of the 13 PRSPs produced during 2002 to question the efficiency with which they address gender issues.Findings:3 PRSPs address gender issues commendably if not completely (Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia)another 8 PRSPs spottily apply an outdated Women in Development approach, defining gender issues as reproductive health, girls’ education and a few other issu
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  Gender equality in sector wide approaches: a reference guide

  OECD Development Centre, 2002

  This guide presents a series of case studies examining the experience of sector wide programs in education, health and agriculture.It offers advice on how to ensure that a sector wide approach:contributes to overall sustainability and effectivenessis fully responsive to the needs and interests of both women and men and helps to promote gender equalityThe case studies identif
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  The informal sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report attempts to provide an analysis of available secondary data on the informal sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Gender-based violence: emerging issues in programs serving displaced populations

  Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium, 2002

  This book is a compendium of key lessons learned during the author's five years working with gender-based violence (GBV) programs in 12 countries, in particular Angola, Eritrea, Guinea, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Thailand and Zambia.The book describes the evolution of GBV programs serving populations affected by armed conflict.
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  Understanding HIV-related stigma and resulting discrimination in Sub-Saharan Africa: emerging themes from early data collection in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2002

  Describes research that is underway in three African countries and Vietnam to investigate the causes, manifestations, and consequences of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and subsequent discriminatory acts. The basis for analysis is the community and its institutions (health facilities, the workplace, schools, and religious group)s.
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  Suffering in silence: the links between human rights abuses and HIV transmission to girls in Zambia

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This document reports on high rates of sexual violence and coercion against girls in Zambia as a significant causal factor in the extremely high rates of HIV infection among that group.The report documents girls' testimonies of several categories of abuse that heighten girls’ risk of HIV infection, includingsexual assault of girls by family members, particularly the shocking and all too
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  Women connect! The power of communications to improve women’s lives

  Pacific Institute for Women's Health, 2002

  This document reports on the findings of a 3 year program designed to strengthen the ability of women’s NGOs in Africa to communicate more effectively.
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  Modelling the effects of trade on women: the case of Zambia

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002

  The effects of trade on women varies depending on their educational level, their family circumstances and their tasks within households. What is the gender impact of promotion of non-traditional agricultural exports in Zambia? And that of tariff reduction?

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