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    Who's got the Power? Transforming Health Systems for Women and Children

    Millennium Project, 2005
    The Millennium Project Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health is assessing progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 on child mortality and MDG 5 on maternal health. Their report argues that Goals 4 and 5 are attainable - but not without extraordinary effort. Currently 10.8 million children under age five die each year and 530,000 women die from maternal-related illness each year.
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    Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment. Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Maternal Mortality

    Department for International Development, UK, 2005
    Every year over half a million women die as a result of complications in pregnancy and childbirth, and unsafe abortions. This evaluation report reviews the extent to which key objectives of DFID's gender policy commitments are incorporated in the design, implementation and monitoring of DFID's maternal health investments.
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    Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality and the MDGs: A WEDO Information and Action Guide

    2005
    How have women responded to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? Gender equality and women's rights advocates are using the MDGs as another avenue of engagement for monitoring the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and other key international policy agreements.
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    Gender and the Millennium Development Goals

    Oxfam, 2005
    What are the strengths and weaknesses, from a gender perspective, of using the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to understand and address poverty? Contributors to this collection come from both sides of the debate, yet all seek to inspire readers to action.
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    Leading to change: eliminating violence against women in Muslim societies

    Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace, 2005
    In March 2005, an international symposium entitled 'Leading to Change: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies' was convened by the Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace (WLP), a non-governmental organisation (NGO). This report is a compilation of the papers presented at the symposium.
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    Summary of E-discussion on Gender Equality MDG and Task Force Report

    D Groups Website, 2004
    What do civil society organisations think about the progress on achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal primary education? This document summarises an electronic discussion of 1200 participants from among NGOs and civil society groups on the interim report prepared in early 2004 by the Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality.
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    Towards Universal Primary Education: Investments, Incentives, and Institutions

    Millennium Project, 2005
    The reality is that many countries will miss the 2005 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of gender parity in primary education. What could improve the chance of meeting the 2015 Goals? This report from the Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality offers a set of interventions that countries can choose from to help provide universal access to high-quality education.
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    Consultation with Women's Rights Groups on the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration

    Choike, 2004
    How can organisations working on gender coordinate their efforts and learn from each other? In December 2004 the Millennium Campaign , the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Heinrich B?ll Foundation organised a three-day consultation.
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    Resource Guide for Gender Theme Groups

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005
    How can United Nations (UN) teams working on gender issues coordinate what they do to maximise their impact? This resource guide, developed by the Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE), is a tool for Gender Theme Groups to strengthen a collective UN response at the country level to support gender equality in coordination processes.
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    Expectations versus realities in gender-responsive budget initiatives

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
    This paper addresses the question of how well gender-responsive budget (GRB) initiatives have done in practice compared with the claims and expectations about what they can achieve?

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