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  Gender Budget Initiative: A Commonwealth Initiative to Integrate Gender into National Budgetary Processes

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  It is good economic sense to make national budgets gender-sensitive, as this will enable more effective targeting of government expenditure to specific sectors of the population, and reduce inequitable consequences of previous fiscal policies.
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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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  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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  Filling the Data Gap: Gender-Sensitive Statistics for Agricultural Development

  Women and Population Division, FAO, 1999

  Information on rural women's contribution to agriculture and rural development is far from comprehensive. Even when it is available, it is not not utilised sufficiently as a tool by planners and decision-makers in formulating national development plans.
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  Gender and Poverty

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997

  How do gender issues interact with processes that make people poor' What evidence is there of 'feminisation of poverty'' This report identifies key areas where gender inequality and poverty coincide and argues that the persistence of gender discrimination in various forms makes women more vulnerable to poverty, due to their disadvantages in employment, government institutions, mobility, intrahouse
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  BRIDGE Report 37: Employment and Sustainable Livelihoods: A Gender Perspective

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1996

  How do women stand in employment opportunity' To what extent are they able to create livelihoods on par with men in a changing global economic climate' While standard data shows a rise in female labour participation rates, sometimes referred to as the 'feminisation of the labour force', this has not been matched by qualitative improvements in employment opportunities and conditions for women.
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  BRIDGE Report 46: Health and Poverty: A Gender Analysis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  What is the relationship between being poor, healthy and female' In what ways can poor women's health needs be more effectively served' This report outlines how poverty and gender inequalities intersect to place poor women in a position of double disadvantage with respect to health status and access to health care.
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  BRIDGE Report 6: Gender and Development in Namibia: a country study

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1992

  How is a Namibian woman disadvantaged' How can these inequalities be addressed' This report analyses gender discrimination in agriculture, access to land, urban formal and informal employment, education, and health, with particular focus on the black population.
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  World Bank PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Planning) Sourcebook: Gender Chapter

  World Bank, 2000

  Although poverty is experienced differently by men and women, women's needs are often not fully recognised by conventional methods of poverty analysis and participatory planning.

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