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  Disentangling The Web of Women's Poverty and Exclusion

  Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006

  The Canadian Government boasts eight years of budget surpluses but still there are increasing numbers of people living in poverty.
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  Gender Equality Now or Never: A New UN Agency for Women

  Office of the UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, 2006

  How must the United Nations (UN) change in order to deliver better outcomes for women? The UN's current mix of low-level departments, divisions and committees working on gender has been inadequate in pushing the gender equality agenda forward.
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  Recommendations Contained in the Report of the High-level Panel on United Nations System-Wide Coherence in the Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance and Environment

  United Nations, 2007

  In November 2006, the United Nations (UN) published 'Delivering As One', a report examining how the UN can achieve greater coherence through changes in the its structures and systems. In this six-page document, the new UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, responds to the report's suggestions. He states his full agreement with the need for a stronger and more dynamic gender architecture.
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  Gender Equality: At the Heart of Development. Why the Role of Women is Crucial to Ending World Poverty

  Department for International Development, UK, 2007

  How does the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) plan to ensure that women and girls are at the heart of development? This booklet introduces DFID's 'Gender Equality Action Plan' which sets out how the UK government plans to make faster progress towards gender equality.
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  Financial Law Project 2006. Gender Report

  Ministry of Finance and Privatization, Morocco, 2005

  In Morocco, the introduction of a Gender Report annexed to the 2006 Economic and Financial Report is one of the outcomes of the budget reform, which is moving towards a results-oriented and gender-sensitive management of public funds.
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  Moving Ahead: Gender budgeting in Sweden

  Ministry of Industry Employment and Communications, Sweden, 2006

  In 2004, the Swedish government launched a five-year Plan for Gender Mainstreaming in government offices, setting objectives in four main areas: management and control, methods and procedures, training, and co-ordination.
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  Delivering as one: report of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel

  United Nations General Assembly, 2006

  In February 2006, the former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, established a High-Level Panel consisting of fifteen members to examine how to strengthen the UN system in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment.
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  Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  As efforts intensify to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, developed and developing countries have committed themselves to new partnerships and aid modalities.
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  Meeting with the Danish Resource Base on the New Strategy for Gender Equality in Danish Development Cooperation on November 2, 2004 - Executive Summary

  Konsnet, 2004

  This paper documents a meeting held in November 2004 between representatives from the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and the Danish Resource Base on the new strategy for Gender Equality in Danish development cooperation.
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  Promoting Gender Equality in Development Cooperation

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2005

  Gender equality is at the centre of Sida's mission to promote and create conditions for poverty reduction in partner countries. One of their strategies for poverty reduction is mainstreaming gender equality to achieve sustainable development for all.

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