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    A guide to civil society organisations working on democratic governance

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2005
    The Guide is provided primarily as a resource for UNDP offices working on democratic governance and seeking to strengthen engagement and further collaboration with civil society. The Guide is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of civil society organisations (CSOs) working on democratic governance. It is meant to indicate the growing breadth and complexity of CSO activity in this area.
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    Microfinance and gender equality: are we getting there?

    Microcredit Summit Campaign, 2006
    Why isn't the microfinance industry doing better at contributing towards gender equality? Some MFIs have not fully integrated gender issues in their practical operations. This tends to be due to pressures to survive as an organisation, the responsibility of women to support their families, their business skills and training, and existing market conditions.
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    United Nations reform: improving peace operations by advancing the role of women

    Stanley Foundation, 2006
    In November 2006, over 75 experts gathered in New York and Washington to discuss barriers to women's advancement and consider concrete ways to improve the recruitment and selection of women for United Nations (UN) peace operations - as heads of mission, military personnel, civilian police, and international and national civilian staff. Their discussions revealed several trends.
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    Women, Microfinance and Savings : Lessons and Proposals

    Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis, 2001
    The recent shift in terms from microcredit to microfinance reflects the acknowledgement that saving services and not only loans can be of great improvement to women. This article argues the importance of designing formal financial services with gender in mind, in order to redress gender imbalances at home, in the market and in the community. It discusses two services in particular.
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    Gender Equality Action Plan 2007-2009. Making Faster Progress to Gender Equality

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    This Gender Equality Action Plan (GEAP) explains how the Department for International Development (DFID) will help developing countries to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment. In 2006, DFID published a White Paper, called 'Eliminating World Poverty: making governance work for the poor' which committed DFID to making its work on gender equality and women's rights more of a priority.
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    Gender Equality: At the Heart of Development. Why the Role of Women is Crucial to Ending World Poverty

    Department for International Development, UK, 2007
    How does the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) plan to ensure that women and girls are at the heart of development? This booklet introduces DFID's 'Gender Equality Action Plan' which sets out how the UK government plans to make faster progress towards gender equality.
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    Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS

    2006
    Around the world, women are facing a catastrophic assault on their bodies, their rights and their health as a result of the prevalence of HIV and the unrelenting levels of violence against women on a global level. Each constitutes a crisis on its own. Yet in the lives of millions of women these crises are not separable; they are fundamentally linked.
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    The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Violence Against the Girl Child - Report of the UN Secretary-General

    2006
    Discrimination and violence against the girl child persist in all parts of the world. This report has been prepared in accordance with the programme of work of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for 2007-2009, which identified ?The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child? as the priority theme for the Commission's fifty-first session.
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    From Microfinance to Macro Change: Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty

    Microcredit Summit Campaign, 2006
    This advocacy booklet calls for integration of reproductive health education with microfinance initiatives (MFIs) in developing countries. It presents individual stories, case studies and findings to show the impact that this combination can have on reducing poverty and improving individual lives, particularly of women who would otherwise not have income-generating opportunities.
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    'Just the facts ma'am' - Gender Stories from Unexpected Sources with Morals for Microfinance

    Microcredit Summit Campaign, 2006
    Is it profitable for microfinance initiatives (MFIs) to target women? This resource presents a series of case studies that describe how targeting women can be profitable for MFIs, why microfinance can be beneficial to women, and why female leadership in planning MFIs is crucial for financial success.

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