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  Worldwide Joint Submission to the Commission for Africa

  United Kingdom Gender and Development Network, 2004

  This short report is a submission to the consultation process of the UK's Commission for Africa. In February 2004 British Prime Minister Tony Blair set up the Commission, aimed at providing a new focus and a comprehensive set of policies for a strong and prosperous Africa.
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  Assessing the Gender Impact of the Community based Animal Health Programme in Southern Sudan

  Veterinaires sans Frontieres, Belgium, 2002

  How does the position of women in the Nuer Community affect the division of labour in livestock activities? In southern Sudan many communities are chronically food insecure with little access to livestock and its products (e.g. milk and blood meat).
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  Gender Strategy and Implementation Plan for Agriculture and Rural Development

  Asian Development Bank, 2004

  While laws and policies in Vietnam guarantee equality between women and men, in practise their implementation is not equal, for example with regard to land use rights, access to credit, and information and technological extension.
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  Sudanese women’s priorities and recommendations to the Oslo Donors’ Conference on Sudan

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  This statement was issued at the Oslo Donor's Conference on Sudan in April 2005. Its authors comprise Sudanese women delegates from all regions, including representatives from the Government of Sudan, the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), civil society and academic institutions.
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  Measures Taken and Progress Achieved in the Follow-up to and Implementation of the FWCW and to the 23rd Special Session of the General Assembly

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2004

  What efforts have been made by the United Nations (UN) system to support the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) at the national level? This review, based on inputs from UN entities, concludes that these entities have made substantial progress in their efforts to support implementation.
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  Review of the Implementation of the BPfA Outcome Documents of the Special Session of the General Assembly: Report of the SG

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2004

  Questionnaire responses from Member States provide the basis for this United Nations ten-year-on review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).
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  Declaration adopted by the Commission on the Status of Women at its Forty-ninth Session

  United Nations, 2005

  To mark the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, Government representatives gathered in New York at the Forty-ninth session of the CSW (28 February - 11 March 2005). This short Declaration was adopted by the Commission. It reaffirms the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (PfA) and welcomes the progress made so far towards achieving gender equality.
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  Gender Equality Policy

  Development Cooperation Ireland, 2004

  Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI) seeks to support the achievement of gender equality as an essential component of sustainable human development. The policy objectives are to: advance equal rights for women and men; eliminate gender inequalities in access to, control of and benefit from resources and services; and to promote gender equality in political and economic power.
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  Combined Third and Fourth CEDAW Periodic Reports of State Parties on Viet Nam

  United Nations, 2000

  Since 1998, Viet Nam has been implementing numerous effective measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls. Laws on economic, educational, scientific, political and social issues were revised to ensure their compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
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  Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines in National Policy Formulation and Implementation

  National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam, 2004

  Women's groups, such as the Viet Nam Women's Union (VWU) and the Committees for the Advancement of Women (CFAW), cannot achieve gender equality alone. Strong leadership from the top is needed and broad commitment and action by all of government at all levels and in all sectors. This guide is a practical tool for government officials in learning how they can work in a more gender-responsive way.

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