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  Gender, Citizenship and the Role of NGOs in ESCWA Countries Affected by Conflicts: Lebanon Case Study

  BRIDGE, 2000

  The Lebanese constitution guarantees the equality and human rights of all citizens. Yet laws based on the different confessional communities that exist in Lebanon, such as article 9, give authority to religious courts with regard to personal status issues including marriage, inheritance and divorce.
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  Why eat green cucumbers at the time of dying?: women’s literacy and development in Nepal

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2000

  Why should people take on new literacy practices when they feel they are able to communicate adequately? Is 'traditional' literacy the key to women's empowerment? In Nepal, as elsewhere, there has been an explosion of literacy programmes due to the popular perception that this is the case. This report questions whether such programmes meet women's needs from the point of view of participants.
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  Sisterhood? The Casual Link between Gender-Focused NGOs and the Grassroots Women of Uganda

  2002

  Do advocacy efforts on the part of NGOs actually lead to benefits for women? This study in Uganda looked at why there are gaps between advocacy around policies for women's empowerment and the impact of this advocacy on women's lives.
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  The Municipality. A Challenge for Men's and Women's Equal Opportunities

  Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres, 2003

  This document is the final product of the research project 'Leadership, Women and Local Governments in Mexico'. It synthesises the main challenges that have to be overcome in order to make gender equality a reality.
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  BRIDGE Report 62: India Gender Profile

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2001

  This report provides a contemporary overview of gender and development issues in India and identifies areas for further and more detailed study.
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  Literacy and Social Change: From a Woman's Perspective

  Proceedings of the 1996 World Conference on Literacy, 1996

  How can literacy programmes be implemented which address the real, wider needs of marginalised groups? This paper describes self-generated literacy programmes in two communities in Mumbai, India. The programmes were planned by women in the communities around their actual needs rather than following traditional schooling methods.
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  Open Learning System of Adult Education for Empowering Women in India

  Commonwealth of Learning, 2003

  Although there have been improvements over the past twenty years, there remains a significant gender disparity in literacy in India. The rise in women's employment has largely been made possible by the provision of opportunities such as the distance education system, open universities, women's universities and women's studies centres and non-formal adult education.
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  Women in sync: toolkit for electronic networking

  Women's Networking Support Programme, APC, 2000

  Women in Sync is a collection of stories about the experiences of women and their organisations who have become part of the Association of Progressive Communications" Women's Networking Support Programme, or who have worked closely with the programme. These stories are designed to be a toolkit for women's electronic networking.
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  Developing Gender-sensitive Local Services

  One World Action, 2000

  In many developing countries public services are poor or non-existent for the majority of people, and in others, including European countries, new forms of public service provision, including contracting-out and public-private partnerships are being considered.
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  Gender Makes a Difference: Gender Analysis Workshop Increases Skills of Those Working to Link Agriculture and Nutrition

  Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2003

  Gender analysis is rarely used to improve the effectiveness of nutrition interventions and their links to agriculture to reduce hunger and malnutrition. To address this issue, the third Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project workshop was held for ICRW/IFPRI/USAID country team members from Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda.

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