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  Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  The goal of this project was to assist illiterate and out-of-school adolescent girls in making informed decisions regarding their reproductive health and rights. The Aamaa Milan Kendra (AMK or Mothers' Club), an NGO set up in 1999 in Nepal, has been supporting activities that help adolescent girls challenge gender inequity and expand their life options.
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  Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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  Making It Work: Linking Youth, Reproductive Work and Livelihoods

  2001

  How can attention to encouraging healthier reproductive and sexual behaviours among young people be linked to support for improving their educational and economic options? The first section of the report is based on an inventory of 'linked' programmes in developing countries and a conceptual framework addressing the complexity of linked interventions.
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  Planning for education in the context of HIV/AIDS

  International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO, 2000

  This booklet is one in a series of educational planning tools published by UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP). The series is edited and authored by professionals from regions around the world, and represents a wide range of perspectives. This booklet may be used in formal training programmes or private education.
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  Mainstreaming Gender Equality: Sida's Support for the Promotion of Gender Equality in Partner Countries

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002

  There is a continuing need to ensure that the goal of gender equality is defined with clarity at the level of policies, strategies and interventions. This clarity needs to be maintained as Sida seeks convergence and complimentarity between gender equality goals and other goals such as poverty reduction.
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  Viet Nam: Children and Women: A Situation Analysis, 2000

  2000

  Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) are mutually reinforcing and mutually dependant.
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  Women in Uzbekistan: Country Briefing Paper

  2001

  The economic transition in Uzbekistan has brought about worrisome trends in women's socio-economic status: the feminization of poverty, including higher levels of women's unemployment, deteriorating health and education status of women due mainly to the increasing cost of social services and other socio- economic factors.
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  Women in Malaysia: Country Briefing Paper

  Asian Development Bank, 1998

  This paper deals with the socioeconomic status of Malaysian women. It provides an analysis of the recent trends of the female labour force participation, the areas where the female labour force is concentrated at present, and gender differentials in wages. It makes recommendations to improve women's status through their participation in economic development.
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  The Challenge of Working with Gender: Experiences from Danish-Ugandan development cooperation

  BRIDGE, 2000

  This study on Danish-Ugandan development co-operation was commissioned by Danida as a contribution to the five-year follow-up of the Fourth Global Conference on Women held in Beijing, 1995.
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  Realizing decent work for older women workers

  Older Workers, 2000

  Over the course of the next 50 years, older age groups will make up an increasingly larger share of the total global population. Policy-makers have primarily responded to the challenges posed by ageing populations by focusing on reforming social security and health care systems to minimise projected public expenditure.

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