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  "Fifty Voices are Better than One": Combating Social Exclusion and Gender Stereotyping in Gellideg, in the South Wales Valleys

  Oxfam, 2003

  This report tells the story of how the people of Gellideg - a housing estate in Wales - came together to take steps to combat social exclusion and gender stereotyping. Frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to their children, six local women formed the Gellideg Foundation Group.
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  Gender Mainstreaming Action Plan

  United Nations, 2003

  How can incorporation of a gender perspective strengthen processes of disarmament? We can think about disarmament as having the objective of security. A gender perspective can give a concept of security that focuses on people and their lives, rather than on political/national considerations; and can therefore raise questions of whose viewpoint do we see and who is involved in decision-making.
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  Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2003

  At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 governments pledged collective responsibility to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first being to halve world poverty by 2015, and the third to "Promote gender equality and empower women". This book provides evidence as to why promoting gender equality is essential for halving world poverty and realising all eight MDGs.
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  Failing Women, Sustaining Poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)

  BRIDGE, 2003

  Why have so few Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) taken women's poverty seriously? To answer the question, this paper draws on PRSP processes from Tanzania, Bolivia, Malawi and Yemen. As elsewhere, the PRSPs fail to address gender in a coherent and consistent way. If addressed, gender issues feature only under sections on health and education rather than being mainstreamed.
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  Gender in the PRSPs: A Stocktaking

  World Bank, 2001

  Opportunities for poverty reduction have been missed through neglect of gender issues. This is the conclusion of a review by the Gender and Development Group of the World Bank of 19 Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), four full PRSPs, and the accompanying Joint Bank and Fund Staff Assessments (JSAs). An examination of these reveals that overall attention to gender is minimal.
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  Gender-responsive government budgeting

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This paper examines the concept of gender-responsive government budgeting (GRGB) and the extent of its implementation by national governments in both advanced and developing countries.The paper argues that in order for GRGB to be fully effective, obstacles such as gender-biased culture, the lack of appropriate budget classifications, and the lack of gender analysis expertise and gender-disaggre
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  Muslim Feminism and Feminist Movement: Central Asia

  Global Vision Publishing House, 2002

  The aim of this book is to explore the origin and development of Muslim feminism and feminist movements in Central Asian countries - Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Soviet Central Asia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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  Gender and Citizenship: Considerations on the Turkish Experience

  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001

  The way in which women are able to exercise and experience their citizenship in Turkey depends on their class, religion and the extent of their religious devotion. Citizenship in Turkey has inherent gender biases. Women, who bear the brunt of parenting responsibilities and domestic chores cannot take full advantage of the rights citizenship brings, even if they have them.
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  Gender, Islam, Nationalism and the State in Aceh: the Paradox of Power, Co-optation and Resistance

  Routledge, 2002

  Aceh is now in a state of armed rebellion against the Indonesian government. The book analyses how female agency is constituted in Aceh, in a complex interplay of indigenous female power, Islamic belief and practices, state terror, and political violence.
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  Muslim Feminism and Feminist Movement: Middle-East Asia-Two Volumes

  Global Vision Publishing House, 2002

  The aim of these volumes is to study the development of Muslim feminism and the impact of the feminist movements in Middle-East Asian countries. The first two articles of the first volume focus on the development of feminist culture and fundamentalists' resistance in Middle-East Asian countries. The rest of the articles deal with Iranian feminism and the Iranian feminist movement.

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