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  Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Voice and Accountability

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  The concepts of voice and accountability form the core values of good governance - of ensuring that citizens have a voice in decisions made about their lives and that states and other actors hear those voices and respond to them.
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  Gender Equality and Good Governance Training Manual

  Coptic Evangelical Organisation For Social Services of Egypt, 2005

  The training manual addresses the concepts of good governance and gender equality and looks at ways of promoting good governance from a gender perspective. It consists of background information and a number of assignments and handouts. It is written for trainers who work with local level organisations and women leaders.
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  Gender and Organisational Change Training Manual

  2001

  This training manual aims to assist facilitators and trainers with conducting holistic and participatory processes to help development organisations integrate gender concerns into their workplace and their training, extension and research programmes. It can be used as a guide and a source of resource materials for training programmes in gender and organisational change.
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  Institutional Change and Accountability: Notes on a Strategy

  2003

  Why is accountability to women important in relation to human security? In order for organisations to achieve true human security they need to redress gender inequity and support women's rights. To realise women's rights, they must ensure the active participation of women and also work on changing institutions (i.e. families, communities, markets and the state).
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  What's Beijing got to do with me? Women 2000: Women & Equality

  2001

  What is the United Nations doing for women in the UK? Is the Beijing Platform for Action relevant to UK women? The Platform for Action is a set of promises made during the 1995 United Nations Women's Conference by governments all over the world in an effort to improve women's status.
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  Programme planning materials and training resources: a compendium

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This compendium of materials is intended as a tool for programme planners and health workers interested in improving their youth-focused HIV prevention programmes. Documents summarised in the compendium are drawn from a variety of organisations and institutions, and address global issues, rather than region-specific topics.
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  The economic advancement of women in Jordan: a country gender assessment

  World Bank, 2005

  Over the past decades, Jordan has achieved impressive results on a host of social indicators, including the bridging of gender gaps in education. Yet, women's participation in the economic sphere has not kept pace with these impressive gains, mainly due to a host of barriers that women face in accessing opportunities in the public sphere.
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  Focus on Human Rights and Gender Justice: Linking the Millennium Development Goals with the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Beijing Platform for Action

  2005

  Three principle frameworks guide international work on gender equality and women's empowerment: the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) outlines legal commitments for the constitutional guarantee of women's rights; the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) complements CEDAW, providing an analysis of the issues and presenting an agenda of policy commitmen
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  Men Who Have Sex with Men and HIV in Vietnam: A Review

  Guilford Publications, New York, 2004

  Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam's urban centres are increasing in numbers and visibility. Although limited to a few surveys, the available data on MSM in Vietnam show that they are at increased risk of HIV infection due to high numbers of sexual partners, high rates of unsafe sex, and inconsistent condom use.
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  Analysis of the Commission for Africa Report

  BRIDGE, 2005

  This follow-up to the United Kingdom (UK) Gender and Development Network's (GADN) submission to the Commission for Africa consultation process reviews and critiques the extent to which gender concerns are reflected in the final report of the Commission. Although the Commission's report recognises that women are a key part of the solution to Africa's problems, significant gaps remain.

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