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    Getting Smart: Strategic Communications for Gender Activists

    Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2003
    This manual aims to build the strategic communications capacity of gender activists in the Southern African region. It targets communications trainers and facilitators, and could be used as part of a training course on developing a communications strategy.
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    Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality and the MDGs: A WEDO Information and Action Guide

    2005
    How have women responded to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? Gender equality and women's rights advocates are using the MDGs as another avenue of engagement for monitoring the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and other key international policy agreements.
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    Leading to change: eliminating violence against women in Muslim societies

    Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace, 2005
    In March 2005, an international symposium entitled 'Leading to Change: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies' was convened by the Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace (WLP), a non-governmental organisation (NGO). This report is a compilation of the papers presented at the symposium.
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    Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

    World Bank, 2005
    The definition of empowerment used in this paper is a person's capacity to make choices and transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes. The extent to which a person is empowered is influenced by personal agency (the capacity to make a purposive choice) and opportunity structure (the institutional context in which choice is made).
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    Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment - DFID's Experience of Gender Mainstreaming 1995-2004

    Department for International Development, UK, 2004
    Overall DFID commitments to gender equality appear to have declined since a peak in 2000 although there are great variations between country programmes. The DFID gender mainstreaming strategies that have been widely admired outside the organisation have not been consistently applied within. In 2005 DFID will undertake a major evaluation of its work on gender equality.
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    The Status of Women in India, Kenya, Sudan and Tunisia

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004
    The institutional framework of a country plays a determining role in the well-being of the women who live in it. This paper examines the status of women in four countries: India, Kenya, Sudan and Tunisia.
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    Towards Gender Equality: Capitalization of SDC Experience in Gender Mainstreaming

    2005
    Based on the SDC gender equality policy, this report brings together some of the knowledge and lessons learned from SDC work on gender since 1998 and is based on the 2003 workshop of the same name. The report is divided into the following chapters: 1) Doing gender aware analysis as the basis for all interventions, 2) Maintaining flexibility in implementation
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    Developing Gender Statistics in the UK

    Radical Statistics Group, 2000
    This article provides an overview of the concept of gender statistics and innovations in compilation. It begins with a definition of the term 'gender statistics', understood not only as a shorthand to refer to statistics relating to people or activities with a significant gender dimension, but to cover those areas where the gender dimension may be hidden, such as unpaid cleaning or care work.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in UK Development Cooperation

    Network Women in Development Europe, 2004
    This briefing note provides an overview and critique of gender mainstreaming policy and practice within the Department for International Development, UK (DFID), focusing specifically on gender mainstreaming in trade policy.
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    CEDAW Fourth Periodic Report of States Parties: United Kingdom

    1999
    This is the UK's fourth report to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

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