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  Advance social watch report 2005: unkept promises

  Social Watch, 2005

  How well are governments progressing towards achieving their promises of eradicating poverty and reaching gender equality as stated in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? According to this report these promises are largely unmet and progress is either very slow or non-existent.
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  Toolkit on Gender, Transport and Maternal Mortality in Africa

  Napier University, 2005

  Maternal mortality is not simply fatal, but is often a cruel and harsh lived experience for African women. Constraints on mobility and on the resources for mobility (e.g., transport facilities and hostel provision for those in need of, or likely to need, emergency obstetric care) have devastating consequences for women's health, particularly maternal mortality, on the African continent.
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  Gendered Analysis of the Working for Water Programme: A Case Study of the Tsitsikama Working for Water Programme

  2005

  The Working for Water (WfW) programme is one of the Expanded Public Works Programmes (EPWP) housed within the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. As both the EPWP and WfW programme focus strongly on the employment of women, this paper conducts a gender analysis of the WfW project.
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  Programme planning materials and training resources: a compendium

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This compendium of materials is intended as a tool for programme planners and health workers interested in improving their youth-focused HIV prevention programmes. Documents summarised in the compendium are drawn from a variety of organisations and institutions, and address global issues, rather than region-specific topics.
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  Preventing and coping with HIV/AIDS in post conflict situations: gender-based lessons

  Linking Complex Emergency Response and Transition Initiative, 2000

  The number and nature of violent conflicts in Africa, coupled with the HIV/AIDS pandemic, are negating many of the development gains achieved in Africa over the last 50 years. This briefing note summarises the rationale behind a symposium held in Pretoria, South Africa, on March 27-29 2001 on 'Preventing and coping with HIV/AIDS in post conflict situations: gender-based lessons'.
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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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  Women, Income-generating Activities and the Conservation of Natural Resources: Medicinal, Culinary and Aromatic Plants in the Sudan

  United Nations, 2002

  This paper presents information on the role of Sudanese medicinal, culinary and aromatic plants in the conservation of natural resources and in the generation of income for rural women. In most parts of the Sudan women constitute the principal labor force for both cash crops and food production.
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  Statistics on Women and Men in Viet Nam

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  This brochure provides statistics for differences between women and men in areas of: health and population; education and literacy; household composition; political representation; and labour and economic activity. Women in Vietnam suffer from inequalities in many ways.
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  Men Who Have Sex with Men and HIV in Vietnam: A Review

  Guilford Publications, New York, 2004

  Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam's urban centres are increasing in numbers and visibility. Although limited to a few surveys, the available data on MSM in Vietnam show that they are at increased risk of HIV infection due to high numbers of sexual partners, high rates of unsafe sex, and inconsistent condom use.
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  Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to the Year 2010

  Asian Development Bank, 2003

  The renovation process in Vietnam in the past decade has enabled significant economic growth as well as and greater rights and more important economic roles of farming households. However, much of this reform has focussed on men as head of households, meaning men have benefited more from economic reform, both economically and in terms of their power within the household.

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