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  Sudan Gender Profile

  United Nations Joint Assessment Mission, 2004

  This factsheet provides an overview of gender concerns and the status of women in Sudan.
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  Gender Strategy and Implementation Plan for Agriculture and Rural Development

  Asian Development Bank, 2004

  While laws and policies in Vietnam guarantee equality between women and men, in practise their implementation is not equal, for example with regard to land use rights, access to credit, and information and technological extension.
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  Rotten fruit: Tesco profits as women workers pay a high price

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Tesco recently announced record profits of ?2 billion. But according to this study by ActionAid in South Africa, thousands of women casual workers growing fruit on farms accredited by Tesco are being exploited. Findings showed that farm workers are paid below the minimum wage, are exposed to pesticides, suffer food insecurity, and have poor quality housing.
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  Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines in National Policy Formulation and Implementation

  National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam, 2004

  Women's groups, such as the Viet Nam Women's Union (VWU) and the Committees for the Advancement of Women (CFAW), cannot achieve gender equality alone. Strong leadership from the top is needed and broad commitment and action by all of government at all levels and in all sectors. This guide is a practical tool for government officials in learning how they can work in a more gender-responsive way.
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  Decision of the Prime Minister of the Government on the Approval of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam by 2010

  Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 2002

  This is the official approval by the Prime Minister of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women. This document reiterates the overall and specific objectives of the strategy and lays out the main measure for implementation.
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  Plan of Action for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women by 2005

  National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam, 2002

  The National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam (NCFAW) developed this Plan of Action to guide implementation of the first five years of the ?National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam by 2010?. It follows the format of the strategy - with coverage of the overall objective and its five specific objectives, including implementation arrangements.
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  Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers

  Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003

  For some years, awareness about the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women in situations of war and armed conflict has been growing. As a result, humanitarian aid programmes are paying more and more attention to the provision of SRH services in the field, but a more holistic and integrated approach to SRH is often still lacking.
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  Gender and Sustainable Development, USAID/Morocco: Report of Two Gender Training Workshops

  2002

  In 2002 the Women in Development Technical Assistance (WIDTECH) provided a two-step gender training programme to build competence in the USAID/Morocco Mission. The first step was a training of trainers (TOT) workshop on gender analysis and facilitation skills for four USAID/Morocco project officers.
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  Gender Assessment for USAID/Morocco

  2003

  The new Country Strategy Plan (CSP) 2004-8 for USAID/Morocco has one strategic objective - to increase economic opportunities. This gender assessment provides an overview of the key gender issues in the CSP target sectors and sub-sectors.
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  NGOs? Report on the Implementation of the CEDAW Convention: A Parallel Report to the Periodic Report

  2003

  This report parallels the government's second periodic report of 1999. It finds that women's struggle to reform their status has not yet yielded results. The mobilisation to reform the Code for Personal Status and to establish a code for the family which is based on more egalitarian conjugal and family relations, has been slow and faced much resistance.

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