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  The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The World Bank Track Record

  Gender Action, 2007

  To what extent does the World Bank meets its own promised objective to mainstream gender into its investments in Post-Conflict Reconstruction (PCR)? 97% of World Bank Post Conflict Fund (PCF) grants neglect to identify women as a target population in the title. Those focused on women constitute just under 4% of total funds.
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  Strengthening Women's Rights Organisations through Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Gender, Disability and Development Institute

  2006

  How can women's organisations include women with disabilities in all areas of their work? According to this article, inclusion is easy. Based on information gathered at Mobility International (MI) USA's Gender, Disability and Development Institute (GDDI), this paper recommends that organisations start with MIUSA's 'Checklist for Inclusion' which provides a simple self-assessment guide.
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  Gender and Indicators: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  Gender-sensitive measurements are critical for building the case for taking gender (in)equality seriously, for enabling better planning and actions by gender and non-gender specialists, and for holding institutions accountable to their commitments on gender equality.
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  Gender and Indicators Cutting Edge Pack

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  What does a world without gender inequality look like? Realising this vision requires inspiring and mobilising social change. But what would indicate we are on the right track - and how will we know when we get there?
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  Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women. Task Force on Education and Gender Equality

  2005

  To accelerate progress toward achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Mark Malloch Brown launched the UN Millennium Project, a three-year effort to identify the best strategies for meeting the MDGs.
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  Millennium Development Goals and Gender Equality. The Case of Colombia; Ecuador; Paraguay; Guatemala; Venezuela; Argentina; Bolivia; Nicaragua; and Mexico

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2006

  This series of reports provides a gender analysis of the progress made in reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in certain Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Guatemala, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Each report uses different instruments and methodologies to analyse the data.
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  Socio-economic and Gender Sensitive Indicators in the Management of Natural Resources

  2003

  In spite of the many recent UN system-wide commitments and mandates to evaluate progress made in gender mainstreaming, an assessment of the current status of socio-economic and gender-sensitive indicators in the management of natural resources revealed an almost complete lack of practical experience in this area.
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  "Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals: Innovations in Measuring and Monitoring" in Progress of the World's Women 2002 Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002

  This short section of the Progress of the World's Women takes stock of the MDGs and associated monitoring work to date, including examples of where organisations have identified, constructed and used additional indicators to measure women's status.
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  Accountability Upside Down: Gender Equality in a Partnership for Poverty Eradication

  Social Watch, 2005

  Until recently, projects or programmes were the principal mechanism through which donors provided development assistance to partner countries. Yet, with the introduction of new aid mechanisms, donor funds are increasingly being channelled to partner governments through direct budget support.
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  2007 Federal Budget Overview: Not a Budget for Women

  2007

  Who benefits most from Canada's 2007 Federal Budget? According to this report, it is high earning men with a stay-at-home partner or wife. The report shows how women in Canada are affected differently than men by tax and spending policies of governments as a result of their varying labour market opportunities, family and community responsibilities, and levels of economic security.

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