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  Good Governance from the Ground Up: Women's Roles in Post-conflict Cambodia

  Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2004

  Women had unique and important experiences and roles in the Cambodian conflict. For example, some used their traditionally accepted identities as mothers to place themselves at the front of public protests and engage police or army personnel verbally - resulting in reduced violent responses.
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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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  Women as Managers of the Public Space: a Participatory Experience in Gender and Water in El Hormiguero, Colombia

  Universidad del Valle, 2003

  The dynamics of participation that develop in water projects to defend the collective interest are deeply affected by unequal gender relations. In the case of El Hormiguero, a rural area of Santiago de Cali, Colombia, the approach to participation highlighted the importance of the role played by women in creating and building up public spaces.
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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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  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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  Gender Equality Results in ADB Projects: Cambodia Country Report

  Asian Development Bank, 2006

  In 2001/2, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) gave loans to Cambodia for projects in rural development, health and Commune Council development. The first two programmes had forms of Gender Action Plans (GAPs), and the third did not. This report assesses how the incorporation or non-inclusion of GAPs in programmes affected outcomes for women.
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  Combined Initial, Second and Third CEDAW Periodic Reports: Cambodia

  2004

  What steps has Cambodia's government taken to achieve gender equality since ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in October 2002? In this first report to the CEDAW Committee, the government outlines progress in a range of areas.
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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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  Gender, Human Trafficking and the Criminal Justice System in Cambodia

  Asia Regional Cooperation to Prevent People Trafficking, 2003

  Human trafficking is a relatively new phenomenon in Cambodia, exacerbated among other factors by limited political will and a weak legal system. Women and girls' low status in Cambodian society make them particularly vulnerable to trafficking and inequalities across a range of political, administrative, judicial, social and economic areas combine to reduce the likelihood of criminal prosecution.

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