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  Sexuality - a Super Force: Young People, Sexuality and Rights in the era of HIV/AIDS

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002

  "Sex is Good - Sex is Joy - Sex is Fun - Sex is Love - Sex is Power - Protected Sex is Life!" This is the message of this booklet, which argues that sexuality is natural and needed for procreation, and sexual drive is important for intimacy and pleasure. Many young people have sex during their teens, whether their parents know this or not.
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  Luchando por la Justicia: las Mujeres Peruanas en la B£squeda de Los desaparecidos [Fighting forJustice: Peruvian Women in the Search for the Disappeared]

  BRIDGE, 2003

  How has a gender analysis been used in areas of post-conflict? In Peru, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) was set up following two decades of political violence spanning the period from 1980 to 2000.
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  Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect: Women Speak out about Conflict

  Panos Institute, London, 1995

  The survival struggles of ordinary women - whether as fighters, rape survivors, camp inhabitants, mothers or peacemakers - are highlighted in the accounts of conflict situations covered in this report. As part of the process of compiling testimonies, the authors set up partnerships with interested women's groups in different countries.
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  The Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a Tool to Bridge the Gender Digital Gap: A Case on the Use of a Locally-Developed CD-ROM by Rural Women in Uganda

  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2002

  The majority of rural women in Africa have limited or no schooling and usually only speak their local languages. This constrains their capacity to benefit from ICT initiatives which require computer and educational literacy and the ability to understand English. Therefore, ICT projects targeting rural communities in Africa need to address this issue through use of appropriate technologies.
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  Gender, ICTs and Agriculture: A Situation Analysis for the 5th Consultative Expert Meeting of CTA's ICT Observatory meeting on Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society

  2002

  How can resource-poor rural women in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve their agricultural production, food processing and food provision? This paper analyses the situation of gender, ICTs and agriculture in ACP nations, through identifying opportunities and challenges to rural women's effective use of these technologies.
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  The Construction of the Myth of Survival

  BRIDGE, 2003

  A myth has been fostered that the survival of the poor household is possible in spite of their lack of resources, and of macro economic policies that cause unemployment and poverty. The following assumptions underlie this myth: however violent economic changes may be, the poor have an endless capacity to work, to consume less and to create mutual help networks.
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  With the People, For the People: Gonoshasthaya Kendra Bangladesh (The People's Health Centre)

  One World Action, 2003

  At a time when the benefits of development policies often only reach small, urban elites, how can development organisations better help with the problems faced by excluded and vulnerable populations such as women and children? This report outlines the work of Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), or The People's Health Centre, in Bangladesh.
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  Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002

  This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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  BRIDGE Report 67: Gender and PRSPs - with Experiences from Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  How gender-sensitive were the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) processes in Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique? This report finds that the poverty assessments did not provide sufficient gendered information to ensure that the PRSPs were based on a thorough understanding of what drives poverty. The collection and analysis of sex-disaggregated data needs to be prioritised.
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  United Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM) contribution to the World Bank and IMF PRSP preview

  World Bank, 2001

  The following feedback from UNIFEM on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) review is based on assessments done by non-governmental organisations, consultants and national women’s machineries in countries with both interim and full PRSPs.Areas of concern include:one of the key areas where there is a singular lack of gender dimension in the PRSPs is that of data collection to infor

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