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    In-depth Study on All Forms of Violence Against Women: Report of the Secretary General

    United Nations, 2006
    In 2003, the General Assembly mandated - for the first time - the preparation of an in-depth study on all forms of violence against women (VAW).
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    Gender-based Violence Legal Aid: A Participatory Toolkit - ARC GBV in Conflict-affected Settings

    Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2005
    This toolkit provides three tools and a step-by-step process to support field staff in the design of gender-based violence (GBV) services in conflict-affected settings that incorporate adequate, appropriate, and comprehensive prevention and response strategies with a multisectoral approach.
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    Participatory Research and Development in Natural Resource Management: Towards Social and Gender Equity

    2005
    Meaningful participatory research in agriculture and natural resource management can help communities, governments, donors and the diverse social actors to engender a process of transformative approaches whereby marginalised groups can become empowered, negotiate space to improve their well-being and livelihoods, and manage the resources they depend on in a sustainable way.
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    Reflections on Gender and Participatory Development.

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    Gender advocates have sometimes underestimated the importance of participatory approaches as a means to understand power dynamics in the community and the household. At the same time, many critiques of participatory methods have highlighted a lack of awareness about the implications of gender issues.
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    Show us the money: is violence againts women on the HIV&AIDS donor agenda?

    Women Won't Wait, 2007
    Two pandemics threaten the health, lives and rights of women throughout the world: one is HIV and AIDS and the other is gender-based violence. Research confirms that intimate partner violence is a leading factor in the increasing ?feminization? of the global AIDS pandemic, resulting in disproportionately higher rates of HIV infection among women and girls.
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    Gender Equality and Child Labour: A Participatory Tool for Facilitators

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    Conventional gender roles place various constraints and opportunities on what women and men are expected to be and do, and this is reflected in the types of child labour that boys and girls take part in.
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    Participatory Action Learning in Practice: Experience of a Rapid Participatory Review of ANANDI, India

    ANANDI Participatory Review, 2003
    How can a Participatory Action Learning System (PALS) help to empower women? ANANDI, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Gujarat, India, successfully used PALS to support women from poor and marginalised groups to identify, analyse and solve their own problems.
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    Participation in Sexual and Reproductive Well-being and Rights

    2004
    One of the main aims of participatory development work is to facilitate the expression of people's perspectives, to listen and support the giving of ideas, and to allow participants to grow. In the area of sexual and reproductive well-being and rights, however, participatory approaches are falling short.
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    Mind the Gap: Mainstreaming Gender and Participation in Development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    Lessons can be drawn from experiences of gender mainstreaming for those wishing to institutionalise participatory approaches in their work, according to this paper. It argues that the shift in focus from Women in Development (WID) to Gender and Development (GAD) is mirrored by changes in the participation debate which now puts more stress on issues of governance.
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    Gender, Participation, Health and Positive Thinking: A Personal Perspective

    2004
    As an HIV positive activist herself, and from personal experience of donors and development organisations, Welbourn highlights the importance of understanding the widespread impact of HIV/AIDS on positive people, women in particular, and of involving them, in finding solutions to HIV-related problems.

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