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    Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy

    Routledge, 2006
    The Human Development Report Office has used both the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) as a means of monitoring international progress in the development of women's capabilities. This paper makes a case for the development of additional indices focused on burdens of financial and temporal responsibility for the care of dependents.
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    Special Issue: Revisiting the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)

    Routledge, 2006
    After 10 years of using the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) it is appropriate to take stock, evaluate the impact the measures have had, and, if appropriate, suggest changes to the measures or even propose new measures.
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    Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women. Task Force on Education and Gender Equality

    2005
    To accelerate progress toward achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Mark Malloch Brown launched the UN Millennium Project, a three-year effort to identify the best strategies for meeting the MDGs.
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    Millennium Development Goals and Gender Equality. The Case of Colombia; Ecuador; Paraguay; Guatemala; Venezuela; Argentina; Bolivia; Nicaragua; and Mexico

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2006
    This series of reports provides a gender analysis of the progress made in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in certain Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Guatemala, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Each report uses different instruments and methodologies to analyse the data.
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    En Route to Equality: A Gender Review of National MDG Reports 2005

    United Nations Development Programme, 2005
    The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with other partners, has been assisting partner countries in the South to prepare national Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Reports. These reports are important instruments for monitoring progress on the achievement of the MDGs and have enabled countries to take ownership of the goals.
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    Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: A Critical Analysis of the Third Millennium Development Goal

    Oxfam, 2005
    While each of the three indicators used to measure progress towards the Third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) has the potential to bring about positive changes in women's lives, they also have limits as pathways to women's empowerment.
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    Socio-economic and Gender Sensitive Indicators in the Management of Natural Resources

    2003
    In spite of the many recent UN system-wide commitments and mandates to evaluate progress made in gender mainstreaming, an assessment of the current status of socio-economic and gender-sensitive indicators in the management of natural resources revealed an almost complete lack of practical experience in this area.
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    Conceptual and Methodological Guidelines to Design and Use Gender Indicators in IFAD Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2004
    The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) sees the elimination of gender inequalities as strategically fundamental to the effectiveness of its programmes. This document provides a guide to the design and use of gender-sensitive indicators for monitoring and evaluating IFAD programmes.
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    Gender Indicators

    World Conservation Union, 2004
    Gender equity indicators measure conditions or situations that affect men and women differently; signal changes in power relations between women and men over time; determine access, use and control of resources and distribution of costs and benefits; and point out changes in living conditions and in the roles of women and men over time.
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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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