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  Gender and the Millenium Development Goals

  2005

  Following the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000, 189 governments signed up to adopt eight goals which were seen as crucial to improve the lives of people around the world. To remind governments about their commitment, Oxfam joined other organisations around the world in a campaign called the Global Call to Action Against Poverty.
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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  World Bank, 2005

  The definition of empowerment used in this paper is a person's capacity to make choices and transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes. The extent to which a person is empowered is influenced by personal agency (the capacity to make a purposive choice) and opportunity structure (the institutional context in which choice is made).
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  Advance social watch report 2005: unkept promises

  Social Watch, 2005

  How well are governments progressing towards achieving their promises of eradicating poverty and reaching gender equality as stated in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? According to this report these promises are largely unmet and progress is either very slow or non-existent.
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  Gender and ICTs for development: a global sourcebook

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2005

  Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can have profound implications for women and men in terms of employment, education, health, environmental sustainability, and community development. Because of systemic gender biases in ICTs and their applications, however, women are far more likely than men to experience discrimination in the new information society.
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  Annotated CEDAW bibliography

  International Women's Rights Project, 2004

  This bibliography is a compilation of resources relating to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). The list is organised by Convention article and at the beginning of each section the relevant part of the Convention is cited.
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  Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Phase II Thematic Evaluation: Enabling Environment for Growth and Investment

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  Economic growth does not always reduce poverty. It must be linked to policies which promote equality of opportunities and access to markets. Studies have shown that gender inequality causes poor productivity and slows economic growth.
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  Beijing +10 Resources: Tracking What Has Happened

  2004

  This is an annotated bibliography of resources produced for or relevant to Beijing + 10. The collection begins with materials from United Nations (UN) agencies with a number from the regional Economic Commissions including background papers and reports from regional conferences and review meetings held in preparation for Beijing +10.
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  Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment - DFID's Experience of Gender Mainstreaming 1995-2004

  Department for International Development, UK, 2004

  Overall DFID commitments to gender equality appear to have declined since a peak in 2000 although there are great variations between country programmes. The DFID gender mainstreaming strategies that have been widely admired outside the organisation have not been consistently applied within. In 2005 DFID will undertake a major evaluation of its work on gender equality.
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  Gender and Development Training Manual

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 1996

  This document is a comprehensive five-day, nine-session curriculum for use by trainers of program managers and development workers in the private and public sectors.
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  Towards Gender Equality: Capitalization of SDC Experience in Gender Mainstreaming

  2005

  Based on the SDC gender equality policy, this report brings together some of the knowledge and lessons learned from SDC work on gender since 1998 and is based on the 2003 workshop of the same name. The report is divided into the following chapters: 1) Doing gender aware analysis as the basis for all interventions, 2) Maintaining flexibility in implementation

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