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  Investing in people: national progress in implementing the ICPD programme of action 1994-2004

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Almost all countries report having taken at least one policy, legislative or administrative action to protect the rights of girls and women and promote women's empowerment since the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994.
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  GENIA Toolkit For Promoting Gender Equality in Education

  2004

  How can education in Asia become more gender sensitive? The GENIA toolkit provides a collection of practical resources for gender focal points in Asian Ministries of Education (MoE). It aims to build the technical capacity of gender focal points to mainstream gender at national and regional levels.
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  Why eat green cucumbers at the time of dying?: women’s literacy and development in Nepal

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2000

  Why should people take on new literacy practices when they feel they are able to communicate adequately? Is 'traditional' literacy the key to women's empowerment? In Nepal, as elsewhere, there has been an explosion of literacy programmes due to the popular perception that this is the case. This report questions whether such programmes meet women's needs from the point of view of participants.
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  Literacy and Social Change: From a Woman's Perspective

  Proceedings of the 1996 World Conference on Literacy, 1996

  How can literacy programmes be implemented which address the real, wider needs of marginalised groups? This paper describes self-generated literacy programmes in two communities in Mumbai, India. The programmes were planned by women in the communities around their actual needs rather than following traditional schooling methods.
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  Open Learning System of Adult Education for Empowering Women in India

  Commonwealth of Learning, 2003

  Although there have been improvements over the past twenty years, there remains a significant gender disparity in literacy in India. The rise in women's employment has largely been made possible by the provision of opportunities such as the distance education system, open universities, women's universities and women's studies centres and non-formal adult education.
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  Gender Makes a Difference: Gender Analysis Workshop Increases Skills of Those Working to Link Agriculture and Nutrition

  Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2003

  Gender analysis is rarely used to improve the effectiveness of nutrition interventions and their links to agriculture to reduce hunger and malnutrition. To address this issue, the third Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project workshop was held for ICRW/IFPRI/USAID country team members from Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda.
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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  Report on Gender Budget Analysis of Taxation in Uganda, Focusing on Central Government Taxation carried out by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)

  BRIDGE, 2003

  While most work on gender-sensitive budgets focuses on expenditure, this FOWODE study in Uganda demonstrates the importance of a gendered tax policy impact assessment and evaluation. Any examination of government revenue tends to be difficult and often more politically sensitive than a gender analysis of expenditure.
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  Fiscal Policy, Accountability and Voice: the Example of Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives, background paper for the Human Development Report (HDR) 2002

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  Processes to bring broader public accountability for fiscal policy in ways that are sensitive to the needs of poor women and men are still in their infancy. Gender responsive budget initiatives (GRBIs) seek to widen governance and accountability structures by bringing women's voices to discussions on public spending, revenue-raising and debt.

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