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  GENIA Toolkit For Promoting Gender Equality in Education

  2004

  How can education in Asia become more gender sensitive? The GENIA toolkit provides a collection of practical resources for gender focal points in Asian Ministries of Education (MoE). It aims to build the technical capacity of gender focal points to mainstream gender at national and regional levels.
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  Gender, Citizenship and Nationality Training Pack

  2003

  This training pack is based on learning from various field training initiatives as well as case studies drawn from CRTD's empirical research. The objectives of the pack are to develop a greater understanding of the concepts and applications of gender, citizenship and nationality; and to generate discussion about how individuals, particularly women, are excluded from citizen rights.
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  Tracking Gender Equity Under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in South Asia

  Kali for Women, 2003

  How can we take account of how changes in economic policy initiatives affect gender relations? This book attempts to establish a new framework for gender analysis to address this question. Existing indicators, including education, employment and health status, are broadened to include gender-related stress, anxiety and violence.
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  Gender, Citizenship and Governance: A Global Sourcebook

  Oxfam, 2004

  This resource book explores some of the experiences of Southern practitioners and experts working in the field of gender, citizenship and governance which have emerged in the context of KIT's 'Gender, Citizenship and Governance' programme. The book begins by giving an overview of the debates within development on citizenship and governance and how they relate to gender equality.
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 15: Gender and ICTs

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Dramatic changes brought about by information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities the world over. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations. This issue of In Brief looks at the relationship between ICTs and gender equality.
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  Gender and ICTs: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Mainstream perceptions of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet, are invariably positive, where barriers are understood to be technical rather than social. The reality is that the use of ICTs is governed by existing power relations, and vast numbers of people are excluded from the benefits of these technologies.
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  Gender and ICTs Cutting Edge Pack

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Who benefits from information and communication technology (ICTs)? ICTs have created new economic and social opportunities the world over. The positive changes brought about by ICTs, however, have not touched all of humanity. Their use continues to be governed by existing power relations where women frequently experience relative disadvantage.
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  CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Nicaragua

  Government of Nicaragua, 1999

  This report is Nicaragua's fifth and most recent report to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It outlines the status of women in Nicaragua and initiatives to address the goals set out by CEDAW, particularly with respect to women's equality within the family.
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  The World Summit on the Information Society: Creating Your Own National Gender Programme - A Practical Guide

  Global Youth Action Network - Taking It Global, 2003

  This guide provides an overview of The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process and detailed information on how to engage as gender advocates in the WSIS process. It begins by outlining the case for gender equality in the Information Society, and provides some background on UN processes.
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  Women and the Politics of the Internet in Latin America and the Caribbean

  2001

  As Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use in Latin America and the Caribbean continues to grow, questions persist as to their gendered impacts. The period following the many world conferences of the 1990s saw women and women's organisations come out in force.

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