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  ILO Participatory Gender Audit

  International Labour Organization, 2007

  A Participatory Gender Audit is a tool and a process, based on participatory approaches, which assesses whether internal practices and systems for gender mainstreaming are effective and whether they are being followed. Participatory gender audits are used at an individual, team and organisational level to promote learning on how to integrate gender concerns throughout an institution.
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  A Quick Guide to Using Gender Sensitive Indicators: A Reference Manual for Governments and Other Stakeholders

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  This guide aims to assist governments in the selection, use and dissemination of gender-sensitive indicators at the national level. It is also relevant to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), women's groups, professional associations, academics and others committed to promoting gender equality.
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  "Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals: Innovations in Measuring and Monitoring" in Progress of the World's Women 2002 Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002

  This short section of the Progress of the World's Women takes stock of the MDGs and associated monitoring work to date, including examples of where organisations have identified, constructed and used additional indicators to measure women's status.
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  Gender and Conflict Early Warning: a Framework for Action

  Swiss Peace Foundation, 2002

  Early warning systems are playing an ever more crucial role in identifying areas at risk of violent conflict. This paper presents an initial framework on how to engender early warning systems and proposes a list of gender-sensitive early warning indicators to better ensure that previously overlooked signs of instability are taken into account.
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  Chapter 7: Monitoring and Evaluation, in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2003

  This chapter discusses monitoring and evaluation of actions designed to protect against sexual and gender-based violence against refugees and internally displaced persons. It outlines six actions that should guide the development of a monitoring or evaluation system. One step is to establish coordinated and common reporting tools.
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  Women's Empowerment as a Variable in International Development

  2002

  Measuring 'empowerment' depends on the establishment of universal standards (such as human rights), but at the same time it must allow for indicators which are sensitive to context. Further difficulties arise from the need to measure empowerment as a process as opposed to a fixed condition or outcome.
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  Integration of The Human Rights of Women and The Gender Perspective: Violence Against Women - Mission to Occupied Palestinian Territory

  2005

  How does conflict and occupation affect Palestinian women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories? According to this report, Israeli security measures intersect with gender inequality to produce multiple forms of violence against Palestinian women.
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  Focus. Empowering Women

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) supports Palestinian women through a wide range of initiatives - reviewed in this magazine. Training on gender and women's rights and assistance in gender mainstreaming is provided by UNDP to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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  The Model Parliament for Family Law Reform: A Significant Step towards Linking Women's Issues with National Concerns

  Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2004

  The 1993 Oslo agreement resulted in the forming of the Palestinian Authority but it did not create a separate Palestinian state. This deprived many Palestinians of their fundamental right to self-determination and in the years that followed Palestinians passionately discussed every new law that was proposed.
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  Palestinian Women in Israel

  Coalition of Women for Peace, 2004

  Palestinian women living in Israel experience overlapping spheres of discrimination - politically, economically, and socially. Politically, Israel is dominated by men particularly those from the military. Although many women are dissatisfied with how political parties address women's concerns, fewer and fewer women are entering politics.

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