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    Do Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) address gender? A gender audit of 2002 PRSPs

    Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003
    Can progress be seen on gender in the 13 Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) produced in 2002? Yes - but there is a long way to go before gender issues are thoroughly integrated. Encouragingly, the PRSPs from Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia 'almost' mainstream gender. The majority, however, confine consideration of gender issues to, typically, maternal health and girls' education.
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    March 8th, Women's Day, Eight Goals to Shine a Little Brighter

    Sud Quotidien, 2003
    In 2003 UNIFEM Senegal celebrated International Women's Day on the theme of "Gender and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)". The MDGs are eight goals which governments committed themselves to at the millennium summit in September 2000.
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    Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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    The Gender - Energy - Poverty Nexus

    Department for International Development, UK, 2003
    What are the links between gender, energy, and poverty? This paper, commissioned by DFID, explores current thinking on this issue. Women and men have different energy needs and different ideas about sustainable livelihoods, however women's lesser decision making in the household and community means their influence on this issue is limited.
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    "Fifty Voices are Better than One": Combating Social Exclusion and Gender Stereotyping in Gellideg, in the South Wales Valleys

    Oxfam, 2003
    This report tells the story of how the people of Gellideg - a housing estate in Wales - came together to take steps to combat social exclusion and gender stereotyping. Frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to their children, six local women formed the Gellideg Foundation Group.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2003
    At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 governments pledged collective responsibility to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first being to halve world poverty by 2015, and the third to "Promote gender equality and empower women". This book provides evidence as to why promoting gender equality is essential for halving world poverty and realising all eight MDGs.
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    Failing Women, Sustaining Poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Why have so few Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) taken women's poverty seriously? To answer the question, this paper draws on PRSP processes from Tanzania, Bolivia, Malawi and Yemen. As elsewhere, the PRSPs fail to address gender in a coherent and consistent way. If addressed, gender issues feature only under sections on health and education rather than being mainstreamed.
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    Gender in the PRSPs: A Stocktaking

    World Bank, 2001
    Opportunities for poverty reduction have been missed through neglect of gender issues. This is the conclusion of a review by the Gender and Development Group of the World Bank of 19 Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), four full PRSPs, and the accompanying Joint Bank and Fund Staff Assessments (JSAs). An examination of these reveals that overall attention to gender is minimal.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 12: Gender and Budgets

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    Why is progress towards gender equality so slow? In part, this is a failure to attach money to policy commitments. While government budgets allocate resources in ways that perpetuate gender biases, budgets also offer the potential to transform gender inequalities. The first article of this issue of In Brief shows how in recent years gender budget initiatives (GBI) have risen to this challenge.
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    Gender and Budgets: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    What lessons can be learned from the implementation of gender budget initiatives (GBIs) across the world? What tools are available to support successful implementation? This collection of resources on gender and budgets seeks to answer these questions.

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