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    Manual for the Gender Self-Assessment

    Stichting Nederlandse Vrijwilligers, 2003
    What contribution do you think SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation) makes to equal gender relations? This is just one of the many questions used to encourage SNV staff and partners to assess their own performance on gender. The questions are designed to enhance self-reflection and staff ownership of efforts to promote women's empowerment and gender equality.
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    An introduction to gender audit methodology: its design and implementation in DFID Malawi

    Overseas Development Institute, 2005
    This background paper outlines the methodology used during an audit of the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) gender equality and mainstreaming work in Malawi. The audit comprised both an internal organisational assessment and an external assessment of development objectives.
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    Why the Development Industry Should Get Over its Obsession with Bad Sex and Start to Think About Pleasure

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    The development industry has emphasised the dangers of sex and sexuality - in relation to population control, disease and violence. This negative approach to sex has been filtered through a view of gender which stereotypes men as predators, women as victims, and fails to recognise the existence of transgender people.
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    Statement of the African Feminist Forum on the New UN Entity for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

    Choike, 2006
    This statement by the African Feminist Forum welcomes the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General's High Level Panel's recommendations on strengthening the UN's institutional gender equality architecture. The African Feminist Forum states their support for a new agency led by an Under Secretary-General with an ambitious country presence and substantially increased financial and human resources.
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    Involving Men in Gender Policy and Practice

    Women for Women International, 2007
    The rationale for engaging men to positively transform gender relations is compelling. This paper outlines the arguments for male inclusion, both for gender equality and for men themselves, the principles that should underpin their involvement, and some notes of caution about the process. Men have traditionally been treated as generic and ungendered representatives of humanity.
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    Revisiting Gender Training - the Making and Remaking of Gender Knowledge: A Global Sourcebook

    Oxfam, 2007
    This book relates the thinking and practice of gender training and its feminist 'roots' to the context in which gender training takes place i.e. mainstream international development.
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    Good Choice: the Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health

    Panos Institute, London, 2007
    This is the fourth document in a series of briefings for the media from the Panos RELAY programme, which works with Southern print and broadcast journalists to communicate the findings of academic research in an accessible way. Journalists can play a key role in getting important sexual and reproductive issues debated publicly.
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    UN Reform from a Gender Perspective

    Global Centre for Women's Politics, 2006
    What is the United Nations (UN) reform process all about? And what does it imply for women? This webpage, hosted by the Heinrich B?ll Foundation, provides an overview of UN reform from a gender perspective, presenting some history of the process, links to many initiatives and proposals from within the UN, and statements, studies and interviews from the women's movement around the world.
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    UN Reform and the Gender Equality Recommendations

    Women's UN Report Network, 2006
    The recommendations from the Coherence Panel on reforming the gender equality architecture of the United Nations (UN) incorporate many suggestions made by women's organisations and networks. Now the difficult work of implementation begins - including promoting their adoption during the inter-governmental processes at the UN without having them weakened.
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    An Open Letter on Women and UN Reform to the Secretary General and Member States from NGOs Present at the 50th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

    Choike, 2006
    In this statement, representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who attended the 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women address the UN Secretary General and member states and express their position on the reform of the United Nations (UN). Outraged by the lack of prominence that gender equality has had on the UN reform agenda, they demand that:

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