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    Partnerships for girls’ education

    Oxfam, 2005
    The idea of partnerships - involving multinational donors, governments, international non-government organisations, the private sector, civil society, and local communities - is increasingly current in debates about development. They are widely seen as the most effective way to achieve sustainable economic and social benefits for the poorest people.
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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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    Regulation of Disabled Women's Sexuality

    2004
    Sexuality is treated as either irrelevant or problematic in relation to disability. Issues such as sexual information, sexual relationships, sexual activity and sexual abuse are often excluded from disability theories, rights movements and development policies. Perhaps as a result, society also tends to expect disabled people, particularly women, to act as asexual beings.
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    Local to Local Dialogue: A Grassroots Women's Perspective on Good Governance

    United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2004
    Despite their contributions to the survival of their households and the well-being of their communities, low-income women are often excluded from planning and decision-making processes. These women are instead perceived as either 'beneficiaries' or 'clients'. In either case, poor women are not seen as citizens who can play an important role in transforming governance.
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    Guide for gender-disaggregated data in agriculture and rural development

    Socioeconomic And Gender Analysis Programme, FAO, 2003
    International conferences - from the First World Conference in Mexico in 1975 to the Fourth World Conference in Beijing in 1995 - have highlighted the need for accessible information and data as a starting point for any programme for the advancement of women.
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    Women's political participation and good governance: 21st century challenges

    United Nations Development Programme, 2000
    Women's entry into the realms of governance and their presence and voices in political structures are central to the exercise of citizenship. Influence over policies which affect their lives is hindered by women's primary location in the private and non-political areas of family and community.
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    Briefing paper on the "feminisation of poverty"

    BRIDGE, 2001
    The term 'feminisation of poverty' is used to mean three distinct things: that women have a higher incidence of poverty than men; that their poverty is more severe than that of men and that there is a trend to greater poverty among women, this is particularly associated with rising rates of female-headed households (FHHs).
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    Gender and Natural Disasters

    International Labour Organization, 2000
    This report identifies the complex ways gender relations shape human experiences before, during, and after natural disasters, particularly in relation to employment.
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    Agreed Conclusions on Environmental Management and the Mitigation of Natural Disasters

    United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., 2002
    The 46th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded that a gender perspective must be incorporated into the development and implementation of disaster prevention, mitigation and recovery strategies. This report briefly outlines why.
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    Environmental Management and the Mitigation of Natural Disasters: A Gender Perspective. Report of the Expert Group Meeting, Ankara

    United Nations, 2001
    How gender matters in environmental and disaster risk management is not yet well understood. The United Nations (UN) Inter-Agency Secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) has worked with the Division for the Advancement of Women to bring together worldwide expertise on gender-sensitive approaches to sustainable development and natural disaster reduction.

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