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    The Noel Kempff Project in Bolivia: Gender, Power and Decision-making in Climate Mitigation

    Routledge, 2002
    Since the United Nations Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997 and set legally-binding targets for signatories to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions; forest cultivation has been promoted as an important means to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. There has, however, been limited success.
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    Bangladesh: Gender Mainstreaming Processes in Community-based Flood Risk Management, a Case Study from the Gender and IWRM Resource Guide

    Gender and Water Alliance, 2005
    In 2004 the Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) in Bangladesh designed and implemented a project on flood vulnerability, risk reduction and improved preparedness through community-based information. Household and community responses to events such as floods are an indicator of vulnerability and of people's ability to cope with hazards.
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    Shadow Report to the Fifth Periodic Report of the Government of Bangladesh

    Steps Towards Development, 2004
    Has the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh delivered on their promises as a signatory of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
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    Position statement: injecting drug users and access to HIV treatment

    International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2005
    In 2005, there were an estimated 13.2 million injecting drug users worldwide, 80% of whom live in developing and transitional countries.
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    Gender and desertification: expanding roles for women to restore drylands

    Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau, 2006
    In many of the world's drylands, women's traditional knowledge of and roles in natural resource management and food security are crucial. Women across the developing world spend considerable proportions of their time using and preserving land for food and fuel production, and for generating income for their families and communities.
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    HIV/AIDS-stigma and violence reduction intervention manual

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2006
    This manual, developed in India, discusses how participatory learning and action (PLA) can be applied to combatting violence and stigma around HIV/AIDS. Two new tools are developed for this purpose, building on PLA: community-led action research, and transformatory workshops.
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    Risk, Morality and Blame: A Critical Analysis of Government and US Donor Responses to HIV infections Among Sex Workers in India

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2004
    This paper is one of a series on gender and HIV in India, which since 1995 has received 67 million US dollars for its AIDS control program. It examines the effectiveness of strategies by the Government of India, with this assistance from the US, to address the vulnerabilities of adult female sex workers.
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    WAWI Gender Mainstreaming Workshops: Ghana, Mali and Niger, 2005 (Summary report and country reports)

    2005
    In 2005 three gender mainstreaming workshops, supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) were undertaken in Ghana, Mali and Niger. The purpose was to help mainstream gender into the West Africa Water Initiative (WAWI) practice and in their partner organisations.
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    Gender in Niger

    United Nations Population Fund, 2002
    This United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) web guide to gender in Niger explains that women are disadvantaged economically, politically, socially and culturally. However, with the support of organisations such as UNFPA women are mobilising against their disadvantage in numerous areas including HIV/AIDS, fistula (i.e.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Niger

    Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Sante et Developpement Quebec, Canada, 2002
    The overall prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Niger is estimated at between 3 to 5 per cent in 2001. Women in Niger are particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS due to: their low levels of literacy (8 per cent among women, and 24 per cent among men); popular perceptions that men should be dominant in sexual relations; involvement in sex work; early marriage and polygamy; and female genital mutilation.

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