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  Developing Gender Statistics in the UK

  Radical Statistics Group, 2000

  This article provides an overview of the concept of gender statistics and innovations in compilation. It begins with a definition of the term 'gender statistics', understood not only as a shorthand to refer to statistics relating to people or activities with a significant gender dimension, but to cover those areas where the gender dimension may be hidden, such as unpaid cleaning or care work.
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  Gender Mainstreaming in UK Development Cooperation

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2004

  This briefing note provides an overview and critique of gender mainstreaming policy and practice within the Department for International Development, UK (DFID), focusing specifically on gender mainstreaming in trade policy.
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  CEDAW Fourth Periodic Report of States Parties: United Kingdom

  1999

  This is the UK's fourth report to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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  Aruna Roy of MKSS on Demanding Accountability through the Right to Information in India

  2004

  The NGO Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS - the Workers' and Farmers' Power Association) in Rajasthan, India, has sparked off a nation-wide right-to-information campaign. This interview with Aruna Roy, one of its founding activists, explores how MKSS demands accountability through the right to information, serving both the needs of lower caste and class women and men.
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  Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Voice and Accountability

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  The concepts of voice and accountability form the core values of good governance - of ensuring that citizens have a voice in decisions made about their lives and that states and other actors hear those voices and respond to them.
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  Gender Equality and Good Governance Training Manual

  Coptic Evangelical Organisation For Social Services of Egypt, 2005

  The training manual addresses the concepts of good governance and gender equality and looks at ways of promoting good governance from a gender perspective. It consists of background information and a number of assignments and handouts. It is written for trainers who work with local level organisations and women leaders.
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  Gender-Sensitive Local Auditing: Initiatives from India to Build Accountability to Women

  World Bank Institute, World Bank, 2001

  Are public auditing mechanisms of local governments' spending enhancing accountability to women? What lessons can be learnt from India? Participatory planning and budgeting are now at the centre of progressive decentralisation programmes.
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  Institutional Change and Accountability: Notes on a Strategy

  2003

  Why is accountability to women important in relation to human security? In order for organisations to achieve true human security they need to redress gender inequity and support women's rights. To realise women's rights, they must ensure the active participation of women and also work on changing institutions (i.e. families, communities, markets and the state).
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  The economic advancement of women in Jordan: a country gender assessment

  World Bank, 2005

  Over the past decades, Jordan has achieved impressive results on a host of social indicators, including the bridging of gender gaps in education. Yet, women's participation in the economic sphere has not kept pace with these impressive gains, mainly due to a host of barriers that women face in accessing opportunities in the public sphere.
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  Our Common Interest, Report of the Commission for Africa

  Commission for Africa, 2005

  This year promises to be a decisive one for Africa. In 2005, the United Nations (UN) will conduct a five-year review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to halve world poverty (most of which is in Africa) by 2015.

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