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    Bicycle Pilot Projects: Effective Small-Scale Solutions for Poverty Alleviation and Women's Empowerment

    World Bank, 1998
    This World Bank Powerpoint Presentation for Transport Agencies takes the form of twenty-five slides promoting bicycle pilot projects. The reasons given for increasing bicycle use are the fact that it makes good transport policy, alleviates poverty, empowers women and has multiple environmental and social benefits.
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    Navigating Gender: A Framework and a Tool for Participatory Development

    Department for International Development Co-operation, Finland, 1999
    Navigating Gender is an on-line manual aimed at helping development professionals to apply gender theory.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 4: Integrating Gender into Emergency Responses

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1996
    How can constraints to integrating gender in relief be overcome' The 'tyranny of the urgent' in emergencies tends to override longer-term developmental concerns, including gender issues. This issue of 'Development and Gender in Brief' explores the potential for tackling existing constraints, including biases in the distribution of food aid.
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    Gender, Environment and Development Guide

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1998
    Environmental protection is integral to the struggle for survival of millions of women in the developing world. Development projects aimed at improving the lives of women need to also consider what environmental impact the project will have. This guide, aimed at UNIFEM staff and consultants, provides a framework to evaluate projects and programmes from an environmental perspective.
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    Ending Violence against Women

    Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins University, 1999
    Gender-based violence is now recognised as a major public health concern and a violation of human rights. Although healthcare providers are strategically placed to help identify victims of violence and connect them with other community support services, they often fail to recognise problem.
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    Guidelines on the Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation

    BRIDGE, 1996
    It is estimated that between 100 and 114 million girls and women have been submitted to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) throughout the world. Breaking the silence around FGM has been and remains an extremely complex and sensitive task. However multilaterals, bilaterals, national governments, NGOs and women's grassroots organisations have all initiated work on its prevention.
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    Promoting Girls' Education in Africa: The Design and Implementation of Policy Interventions

    BRIDGE, 1998
    The design and implementation of gender policies in Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe are reviewed in this paper, with focus on how gender disparities in education have been incorporated into policy design and other interventions. It assesses the extent to which interventions have been donor driven and affected by political and organisational constraints.
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    Girls and Basic Education: A Cultural Enquiry

    BRIDGE, 1998
    70 percent of girls in Ghana enroll in basic education, as opposed to 84 percent of boys. At higher educational levels, even fewer girls are represented. This gender discrepancy is mirrored in the female to male ratio in the composition of the teaching force.
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    Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) Programme Sector Guide: Irrigation

    1998
    How can socioeconomic and gender issues be integrated into irrigation programmes' Studies have shown that while irrigation has increased agricultural production, marginal farmers have benefited less than large farmers. Irrigation projects also provide some of the most striking examples of project failures caused by mistaken conceptions of the intrahousehold organisation of production.
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    Gender and School Achievement in the Caribbean

    BRIDGE, 1997
    Why do girls in the Caribbean do better at school than boys, when in most other developing countries the reverse is true' This report examines the relationship between pupils' sex and school achievement in Barbados, St Vincent and Trinidad. It argues that variation in school achievement is explained largely by the socio-economic status of parents, but sex of the pupil is a clear secondary factor.

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