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    Mainstreaming Human Rights and Gender into European Security and Defence Policy

    Commission of the European Communities, 2008
    The European Union (EU) launched its first crisis management operation in 2003. Since then it has deployed over 20 military, police and rule of law operations on three continents. This handbook gathers together the documents that comprise the guiding principles for those responsible for planning and implementing European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) operations.
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    Gender and Governance: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    This Supporting Resources Collection - part of the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Governance - showcases existing work on gender and governance. It presents summaries of a mix of conceptual and research papers, policy briefings, advocacy documents, case study material, and practical tools from diverse regions and disciplines.
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    Gender and Governance: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    With their focus on democracy, transparency, accountability, inclusive citizenship and participatory processes there is huge potential in the ideas and practices of governance to catalyse real change in terms of gender equality. However, this potential remains largely untapped.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 21: Gender and Governance

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Governance processes - with their emphasis on principles of accountability, transparency, responsiveness and inclusiveness - should be a means to social transformation. But despite this potential, they are failing to deliver on gender equality.
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    Gender and Governance Cutting Edge Pack

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    Put simply, governance refers to decision-making by a range of interested people (or 'stakeholders') including those in formal positions of power and 'ordinary' citizens. These decisions have a huge impact on the ways in which women and men lead their lives, on the rules they are expected to abide by, and on the structures that determine where and how they work and live.
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    UNDP Gender Mainstreaming Scorecard

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    UNDP has opted for mainstreaming gender as its main strategy to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment. To this end, it has developed a Gender Mainstreaming Scorecard - a tool which combines the measurement of institutional and programmatic performance on gender mainstreaming.
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    Producing Shadow Reports to the CEDAW Committee: A Procedural Guide

    International Women's Rights Action Watch, 2009
    How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) ensure governments are implementing international law to protect women's rights? This is a practical guide for NGOs who wish to use the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to hold their governments accountable for upholding and enforcing women's rights.
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    Urban Governance: Why Gender Matters

    Global Development Research Centre, 1996
    Women's views are rarely taken into account in urban planning processes. Yet women's needs and interests differ from men's in relation to services such as transport and health, and infrastructure. Policymakers and planners, therefore, need to take a more gender-sensitive approach so that women's needs and interests are addressed and women are included in these decision-making processes.
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    Political Reform to Increase Quotas for Women in Parliament: The Use of Electoral Gender Quotas in Rwanda

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2007
    Electoral gender quotas accelerated greater representation of women in the Rwandan Parliament, with 48.8 per cent of parliamentary seats, the highest in the world after the first ever multiparty elections. While the use of electoral gender quotas is a useful and important mechanism, multiple factors produced the Rwandan success.
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    Women's Right to Land: Voices from Grassroots Movement and Working Women's Alliance from Gujarat

    BRIDGE, 2008
    Studies have shown that a key factor associated with rural poverty is access to land. Yet in many parts of India there remains a huge gender gap in land ownership and control - with significant implications for women's economic and social status.

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