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  Are rural women disadvantaged in asset ownership and business relations in the Kyrgyz Republic?

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper examines how, over the past 10 years, Kyrgyzstan has privatised most of its agricultural land and distributed it to individual households. These households either farm alone or join together and farm cooperatively. This research seeks to examine whether women have been adversely affected in the process of privatisation, asset ownership, or business development.
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  Toolkit for mainstreaming gender, environment, poverty reduction, peace and unity and participatory governance

  Philippines-Canada Local Government Support Program, 2003

  This toolkit is designed as a guide to help local government support programmes (LGSP) and their local resource partners representatives to integrate LGSP's four cross-cutting themes into LGSP projects and to build the capacity of local government units (LGUs) to mainstream the cross-cutting themes into their policies, plans and programs.
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  Governing for equity: gender, citizenship and governance

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2003

  This paper summarises the findings of a three year research programme conducted by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam, entitled "Gender, Citizenship and Governance." The programme aimed to develop a range of good practices to effect changes in institutional rules and practices to promote gender equality and enhance citizen participation.
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  The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  This paper recognises that attention to the critical role men and boys can play in the achievement of gender equality is relatively recent within the United Nations, and seeks to expand on this topic. The role of men and boys in challenging and changing unequal power relations is critical.
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  Gender, minorities, and indigenous peoples

  Minority Rights Group International, 2004

  The aim of this report is to encourage those working on minority and indigenous peoples’ rights to consider the issues from a gender perspective, and to encourage those working on gender equality and women’s rights to include minorities and indigenous peoples within their remit.
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  Report on the technical meeting on the mainstreaming of the gender perspective in poverty measurement

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2003

  This paper reports on the findings of an ECLAC conference held in La Paz, Bolivia, in September 2003, covering topics including:poverty reduction strategies and policies in the regionconceptual and methodological challenges for the mainstreaming of the gender perspective in the conceptualization and measurement of povertynational experiences in poverty measurementThe confer
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  Building a new Iraq: women’s role in reconstruction women’s role in strengthening civil society

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2003

  This paper summarises the conclusions of a forum on women’s roles in post-conflict Iraq, particularly focusing on women’s roles in civil society, government, economic growth, and security. The authors state that a number of factors will be essential to maximising women’s rights and roles in post-conflict Iraq.
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  Democratic governance and gender: possible linkages

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004

  This paper presents an overview of the social and institutional changes unfolding in the Latin American and Caribbean region and the relationships that exist between democratic governance and the reform of societal gender-based practices.The author finds that:new modes of democratic governance take the form of institutional changes, i.e.
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  Strengthening governance: the role of women in Rwanda's transition

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2003

  This paper examines the role and inclusion of women into the transition and post-transition Rwandan governments, following the genocide of the early 1990s.
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  Population, reproductive health and the Millennium Development Goals: how the ICPD Programme of Action promotes poverty alleviation and human rights

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  In the year 2000, a set of goals to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world (afterwards called the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs) were adopted at the historic Millennium Summit at the United Nations.

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