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  Women and ICTs for open and distance learning: some experiences and strategies from the Commonwealth

  Commonwealth of Learning, 2002

  This report aims to provide guidance to those using ICTs for open and distance learning to ensure that women have equal access and are able to contribute to their full potential. It provides a practical tool for those working in the field, highlighting lessons learned from previous the research material and comparing regional differences.
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  Refugees and AIDS: what should the humanitarian community do?

  Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium, 2002

  Sexually transmitted infections and HIV spread fastest where there is poverty, powerlessness and social instability characteristic of refugee and internally displaced populations. This document provides an introduction for humanitarian programme workers to issues of HIV and AIDS.
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  Towards a gender aware energy policy: a case study from South Africa and Uganda

  Women of Uganda Network, 2002

  This report develops and defines the main characteristics of gender-aware national energy policy and analysing under which conditions such a policy can be realised.
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  The role of local authorities in implementing health care with a gender perspective: the case of the Women's Total Health Care Program, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 1999

  In Brazil, relationships developed by public health providers with users are impregnated with a culture based on hierarchy between the genders both at decision-making and service provision levels. This paper discusses the role of local governments in introducing a gender perspective to the implementation of women’s health care policies and programs.
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  Women and health: mainstreaming the gender perspective into the health sector

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 1998

  An Expert Group Meeting on "Women and Health – Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective into the Health Sector" was organised in Tunisia in 1998, in preparation for the forty-third session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1999 which considered "Women and Health" as a priority theme.
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  A new security threat: HIV/AIDS in the military

  Worldwatch Institute, 2003

  This paper describes the possible extent and consequences of HIV/AIDS prevalence among military personnel worldwide.
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  Women and local government

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1996

  Decentralization is connected with the empowerment of local government and democractic governance in the popular imagination.
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  Tunnel vision: women, mining and communities

  Oxfam, 2002

  Provides practical examples of situations where women and children have consistently suffered disproportionately from the negative impacts of mining projects due to the policies and behaviour of the companies involved.The following list represents a consolidation of grievances expressed by women during the research:companies only entering into negotiations with men, making women neither
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  Mobilising Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Resource Guide for Organisations in East and Southern Africa

  Raising Voices, 2010

  What does systematic violence prevention in communities look like? How can an organization do this well? The Resource Guide was Raising Voices’ first methodology and was globally one of the first long-term, documented approaches for community-based domestic violence prevention.
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  Gender equity and peacebuilding: from rhetoric to reality: finding the way

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003

  This paper looks at how gender concerns are being integrated into policies and programs that shape post-conflict societies.Findings indicate a slow but positive shift in international opinion and understanding about the consequences of conflict on women and the importance of their participation in peacebuilding processes and post-conflict social transformation.

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