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  Women in Malaysia: Country Briefing Paper

  Asian Development Bank, 1998

  This paper deals with the socioeconomic status of Malaysian women. It provides an analysis of the recent trends of the female labour force participation, the areas where the female labour force is concentrated at present, and gender differentials in wages. It makes recommendations to improve women's status through their participation in economic development.
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  Case Studies of two women's health projects in Bolivia

  1999

  Fertility and maternal mortality rates in Bolivia are among the highest in Latin America. Two women-centered health programmes have been developed in Bolivia to respond to women's reproductive health needs in a way that includes all women, especially poor indigenous ones, and that influences changes in policies and practices.
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  Embracing Participation in Development: Worldwide Experience from CARE's Reproductive Health Programs with a Step-by-step Field Guide to Participatory Tools and Techniques

  CARE International, 1999

  What is participation? How can it be embraced and applied in development programmes? CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere) identified the need to use more participatory approaches, but it was equally felt that more guidance was needed to apply participatory methods to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects and programmes.
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  Rethinking Differences and Rights in Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Training Manual for Health Care Providers

  Centre for Information and Development of Women, La Paz, Bolivia, 1999

  The Bolivian government enacted progressive sexual and reproductive health policies and implemented programmes throughout the 1990s. In spite of these efforts, many women and men still do not have access to sufficient sexual and reproductive health information or basic health and social support services.
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  Methodology for Participatory Assessments (MPA) with Communities, Institutions and Policy Makers. Linking Sustainability with Demand, Gender and Poverty

  2000

  Experience has shown that water and sanitation investments, which take local demand into account are more likely to be sustained. This calls for new methods and tools to enable project planners and service providers to engage with all consumers and to ensure that frequently excluded groups are not overlooked.
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  Stepping Stones Training Package

  Strategies for Hope Trust, 1995

  A training package on gender, HIV, communication and relationship skills, for use with whole communities to challenge gender inequalities and inter- generational inequalities, between men and women and between older and younger people. The training programme consists of 18 carefully sequenced sessions over three to four months.
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  'Learning to Relearn Givens', Participatory Learning and Action

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000

  Living for Tomorrow is a development and research HIV prevention project based in Estonia and targeting young people and the difficulties faced by educators in actively involving the youth in safe sexual behaviour. Its approach is to build sexual health awareness while looking at how gender norms in society actually dictate and produce unsafe and damaging sexual relations between men and women.
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  The Challenge of Working with Gender: Experiences from Danish-Ugandan development cooperation

  BRIDGE, 2000

  This study on Danish-Ugandan development co-operation was commissioned by Danida as a contribution to the five-year follow-up of the Fourth Global Conference on Women held in Beijing, 1995.
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  Gender, Health and Health Sector Reform: Guiding Questions Working Paper

  BRIDGE, 1999

  Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) form the main framework for Danida's development assistance and SWAps are increasingly being adopted by donor agencies as an effective and efficient way to ensure that development initiatives have national reach and ownership. Danida has developed a series of guidelines to ensure that sector programming integrates gender equality concerns.
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  Toolkit on Gender in Water and Sanitation

  Gendernet, World Bank, 1998

  Thanks to efforts ranging from the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981-90) to the Fourth World Conference for Women at Beijing in September 1995, women are now recognised as playing a central part in the water and sanitation sector.

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