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  Gender, Citizenship and the Role of NGOs in ESCWA Countries Affected by Conflicts: Lebanon Case Study

  BRIDGE, 2000

  The Lebanese constitution guarantees the equality and human rights of all citizens. Yet laws based on the different confessional communities that exist in Lebanon, such as article 9, give authority to religious courts with regard to personal status issues including marriage, inheritance and divorce.
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  Gender mainstreaming in macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction strategy in Kenya

  African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2004

  Economic decline and rising levels of poverty and income inequality are some of the main challenges currently facing the Kenyan economy. More than half the population live below the poverty line, with poor women being generally worse off than poor men.
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  Sisterhood? The Casual Link between Gender-Focused NGOs and the Grassroots Women of Uganda

  2002

  Do advocacy efforts on the part of NGOs actually lead to benefits for women? This study in Uganda looked at why there are gaps between advocacy around policies for women's empowerment and the impact of this advocacy on women's lives.
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  Macro-Economics: Making Gender Matter: Concepts, Policies and Institutional Change in Developing Countries

  Zed Books Limited, 2003

  Increasingly over the past decade macro-economic theories and policies have begun to be considered with respect to their varying impacts on men and women. Gendered economic analysis has highlighted the existence of gender biases in institutions, markets and the household and introduced alternative frameworks into existing macro-economic agendas at many levels.
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  CEDAW Combined Second and Third Periodic Reports of States Parties: Indonesia

  United Nations, 1997

  This report outlines the status of women in Indonesia as of 1997, the last time Indonesia made a submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of CEDAW. Indonesia has had a Minister of State for the Role of Women since 1978. In the years leading up to 1997, the country experienced rapid economic growth that substantially changed the status of women.
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  Women's Human Rights Situation in Indonesia

  Online Women in Politics, 2002

  Under the Indonesian Constitution women have the same rights as men. What happens in practice?
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  The Municipality. A Challenge for Men's and Women's Equal Opportunities

  Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres, 2003

  This document is the final product of the research project 'Leadership, Women and Local Governments in Mexico'. It synthesises the main challenges that have to be overcome in order to make gender equality a reality.
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  A Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Integrated Literacy and Basic Education Programs on Women's Participation in Social and Economic Development in Nepal

  2002

  Do women's literacy programmes have a significant impact on women's social and economic development? This study looks at two literacy programmes in Nepal: the Basic Primary Education Program (BPEP) and the Health Education and Adult Literacy Program (HEAL). It is aimed at policy-makers (national and donor) and practitioners to enable better programme planning.
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  Literacy and Social Change: From a Woman's Perspective

  Proceedings of the 1996 World Conference on Literacy, 1996

  How can literacy programmes be implemented which address the real, wider needs of marginalised groups? This paper describes self-generated literacy programmes in two communities in Mumbai, India. The programmes were planned by women in the communities around their actual needs rather than following traditional schooling methods.
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  Developing Gender-sensitive Local Services

  One World Action, 2000

  In many developing countries public services are poor or non-existent for the majority of people, and in others, including European countries, new forms of public service provision, including contracting-out and public-private partnerships are being considered.

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