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  NGOs as Partners on the Way to Accelerate the Implementation of the Platform for Action: Report of the NGO Forum

  2004

  In December 2004 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) held a ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). In preparation for this meeting the NGO Working Group on Women for the UNECE region organised an NGO Forum.
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  Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  Based on the findings of UNRISD's ongoing gender research and over 60 specially commissioned studies, this report analyses the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. Whatever their intentions, these reforms had significant and mixed implications for gender relations and women's well-being. The report is divided into four key sections.
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  The Solidarity Economy: A Way to Reduce Inequalities between Men and Women?

  Genre en Action, 2005

  The market economy is not easy on women trying to reconcile family and work life without access to the same rights as men. A possible alternative is the 'solidarity economy' - economic enterprises undertaken not for profit but for benefit of a collective. These include crafts, small enterprises such as shops, cafes, entertainments or finance services.
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  Globalising Women's Rights: Confronting Unequal Development Between the UN Rights Framework and the WTO Trade Agreements

  BRIDGE, 2004

  In its work on the intersection between development and trade policies, Network Women in Development Europe (WIDE) recognised a growing lack of coherence between on the one hand, the human rights framework adopted by the United Nations (UN) and elaborated in various international conventions and on the other hand the commercial and corporate rights protected in free trade agreements.
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  Strategies for Poverty Alleviation in India: CYSD's Holistic Approach to Empowerment Through the Self-help Group Model

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  Providing credit is the primary goal of microfinance projects. But on its own this can be an ineffective response to chronic poverty. Research from India has shown that projects which take a broader approach can yield surprising results. A report from India's Utkal University describes the model of self-help groups used by the Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD).
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  BRIDGE Report 50: Economic Reform and Poverty: A Gender Analysis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997

  Economic reform in many developing countries is associated with structural adjustment programmes supported by international financial institutions (IFIs). Many countries have experienced increases in poverty or greater inequality. There is increasing evidence of negative effects of structural adjustment on women, particularly on poor women.
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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  Report on Gender Budget Analysis of Taxation in Uganda, Focusing on Central Government Taxation carried out by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA)

  BRIDGE, 2003

  While most work on gender-sensitive budgets focuses on expenditure, this FOWODE study in Uganda demonstrates the importance of a gendered tax policy impact assessment and evaluation. Any examination of government revenue tends to be difficult and often more politically sensitive than a gender analysis of expenditure.
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  Fiscal Policy, Accountability and Voice: the Example of Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives, background paper for the Human Development Report (HDR) 2002

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  Processes to bring broader public accountability for fiscal policy in ways that are sensitive to the needs of poor women and men are still in their infancy. Gender responsive budget initiatives (GRBIs) seek to widen governance and accountability structures by bringing women's voices to discussions on public spending, revenue-raising and debt.

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