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    Gender-focused, community-led development in rural Africa: The Hunger Project’s Epicenter Strategy

    2015
    The Hunger Project is a global, non-profit organisation committed to the sustainable end to world hunger.
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    Empowering drylands women

    Drylands Development Centre, UNDP, 2014
    The Integrated Drylands Development Programme (IDDP) is a global UNDP initiative to promote sustainable development in the drylands, and advance the implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. This topic brief highlights the important role that gender plays in this context of sustainable development, in particular the role of women in the Arab States and Africa.
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    Women as agents of change in water: reflections on experiences from the field

    UN Women, 2015
    The Women for Water Partnership (WfWP) currently includes 26 women’s networks covering around 100 countries, predominantly in the developing world.
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    Mutual benefits of emPOWERing women for sustainable and inclusive development

    United Nations [UN] Industrial Development Organization, 2015
    The energy and gender nexus is based on the recognition that men and women have different needs and priorities with regard to energy, stemming from gendered societal and cultural roles. Without access to energy, women often face especially exhausting and time-consuming work when undertaking basic subsistence tasks.
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    Gender & climate change adaptation: empowering women in agriculture and forestry

    Rainforest Alliance, 2014
    In every region of the world, women are engaged in sectors that are directly affected by climate change. In agriculture, forestry, and other livelihood activities, these women are already feeling the impact of climate change; and generally experience greater vulnerability and risk than men.
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    Women's empowerment revisited : from individual to collective power among the export sector workers of Bangladesh

    2012
    Bangladesh has become known as something of a success in advancing gender equality since the 1990s. There have been rapid gains in a number of social and economic domains, yet by most objective standards the current condition and status of women and girls within Bangladeshi society remain low.
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    Gender Equality briefing kit

    United Nations, 2013
    This toolkit is designed to support the commitment of the UN System in Nigeria to gender equality mainstreaming. It is developed as a basic reference document/kit for the UN and her partners. 
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    The role of discriminatory social institutions in female South-South migration

    OECD Development Centre, 2014
    Migration patterns, choices and outcomes are not gender neutral. Women account for almost half of all global migration, and within that are a number of important gendered differences and considerations that must be explored and accounted for.
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    Empowered and safe: economic strengthening for girls in emergencies

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2014
    Even in times of peace and stability, adolescent girls are among the most vulnerable members of society in low-income countries. In times of emergency, this vulnerability is multiplied, with girls facing various rights violations, including high rates of gender-based violence (GBV).
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    Predator and prey: Islamic feminism and the discourse of female-authored novels in northern Nigeria

    The African Symposium, 2014
    NIgeria has a rich history of women writers who have used literature to challenge societal contradictions and discrimination. Now a new generation of writers is emerging. Muslim women’s writing from northern Nigeria has attracted feminist critical attention, but the exploration of this tradition through a blend of feminism and critical discourse analysis has not been explored.

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