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    Rethinking Development in Africa: Imagine if Women Counted!

    BRIDGE, 2003
    "The process of globalisation requires that we no longer confine ourselves to just demanding poverty reduction, but that we recognise the proactive role that women play, particularly in African society.
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    The Social Construction of Masculinity in Mexico

    Nouvelles Questions Féministes, 2002
    "Following a survey done among young men in Mexico city, it was observed that the dominant form of masculinity in deprived districts of the city is based on two main characteristics: displaying an active heterosexuality and taking socio-economic responsibility for family members. The image that people have of men seems immutable and is not likely to change.
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    Breaking the Shackles: Women's Empowerment in Oxfam Australia's Sri Lanka Program

    Oxfam Australia, 2009
    Oxfam Australia’s Sri Lanka programme decided in the early 1990s to focus on the poorest of the poor, which included making a conscious effort to empower women and promote gender equality, as well as working closely with community-based organisations (CBOs).
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    The Status of Gender Based Violence and Related Services in Four Woredas (Woredas surrounding Bahir Dar town, Burayu woreda, Bako woreda and Gulele Sub-city of Addis Ababa)

    CARE Ethiopia, 2008
    Gender based violence continues to be a significant and serious human rights and public health issue in Ethiopia.
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    Gender and Rape Survivors' Access to Legal Justice in South Africa

    Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, 2010
    How does gender inequality within the South African justice system affect rape survivors’ access to legal justice? Is the law able to protect women and bring perpetrators to justice? Rape is widespread in South Africa where gender inequality is rife.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 9: Gender and Participation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
    This issue of in brief traces synergies and tensions between gender and participation in development practice. The lead article reminds development practitioners that institutions need to mainstream gender-aware and participatory approaches into their own work to ensure that development is truly equitable.
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    Gender and Participation: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001
    By directing practitioners to useful information sources and examples on gender and participatory approaches, the Supporting Resources Collection seeks to contribute to a better understanding of how gender sensitive, participatory development has been and can be achieved.
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    Gender and Participation: Overview Report

    2010
    This Overview Report looks at convergences between approaches to gender and to participation, how these have been played out, and how they have been or could be constructively integrated into projects, programmes, policies, and institutions.
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    Conditional cash transfers: a ‘pathway to women’s empowerment’?

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2008
    This paper critically examines Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs), a development intervention which provides mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school and health clinics. The paper uses evaluations of CCTs in order to assess the evidence for their claim to empower women.
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    Information and communication technologies for women’s socio-economic empowerment

    World Bank, 2009
    The advancement of ICTs has brought new opportunities for both knowledge sharing and knowledge gathering for both women and men. This report provides an overview of some of the issues relating to women and Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) in the developing world in contrast to the developed world.

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