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  Guide to Gender Sensitive Indicators

  Canadian International Development Agency, 1997

  Designed to help CIDA staff understand how to use gender-sensitive indicators, this guide reviews techniques for choosing appropriate indicators and discusses specific methodological approaches to using them at the project level. It outlines what gender-sensitive indicators are and discusses why they are useful.
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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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  Engendering Conflict Early Warning: Lessons from UNIFEM's Solomon Islands Gendered Conflict Early Warning Project

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  Conflict early warning is the systematic collection and analysis of information from areas of crisis to anticipate the escalation of armed conflict.
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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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  Uncounted and Discounted: a Secondary Data Research Project on Violence against Women in Afghanistan

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  To date there has been little research regarding the nature and extent of violence against women in Afghanistan. To address this gap, The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Afghanistan analysed data collected by service organisations and agencies working throughout the country.
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  Strategic Impact Inquiry on Women's Empowerment: Report of Year 1

  CARE International, 2005

  This report presents the findings from the first year of CARE's Strategic Impact Inquiry into Women's Empowerment. One striking result of the inquiry was the general lack of attention within CARE to defining what is meant by women's empowerment.
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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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  Measuring Empowerment: A Methodological Approach

  2003

  How do we decide how empowered a woman or group of women are? Do frequently used socio-economic indicators such as education, income, and labour force participation adequately capture women's 'empowerment'? This paper argues that while these quantitative socio-economic measures of empowerment are useful indicators, they are not sensitive enough to capture the nuances of gender power relations.

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