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    Failing Women, Sustaining Poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Why have so few Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) taken women's poverty seriously? To answer the question, this paper draws on PRSP processes from Tanzania, Bolivia, Malawi and Yemen. As elsewhere, the PRSPs fail to address gender in a coherent and consistent way. If addressed, gender issues feature only under sections on health and education rather than being mainstreamed.
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    Gender in the PRSPs: A Stocktaking

    World Bank, 2001
    Opportunities for poverty reduction have been missed through neglect of gender issues. This is the conclusion of a review by the Gender and Development Group of the World Bank of 19 Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), four full PRSPs, and the accompanying Joint Bank and Fund Staff Assessments (JSAs). An examination of these reveals that overall attention to gender is minimal.
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    My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real you, or Something else Entirely

    Routledge, 1998
    My Gender Workbook is full of fun exercises to help you unpack your own gender. While it does have some group exercises, it is largely aimed at individuals who want to look at how their gender has been constructed, including influences from parents, teachers, the media, and the law, and take action in challenging the gender norms they experience as constraining.
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    Money Matters Three: women and government revenue

    2001
    What support can be given to those advocating for gender-sensitive budget analysis? This is the third of three Money Matters books which are popular versions of the five South African Women's Budget analyses. The books are tools for lobbying and advocacy and are targeted at non-gender specialists who may be second-language English speakers.
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    Money Matters Two: women and the local government budget

    2000
    What support can be given to those advocating for gender-sensitive budget analysis in local government? This is the second of three 'Money Matters' books which are popular versions of the five South African Women's Budget analyses. The books are tools for lobbying and advocacy and are targeted at second- language English speakers with ten years of education.
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    Money Matters [One]: women and the government budget

    1998
    How do you make gender budget research and analysis accessible to non- specialists? What support can be given to those advocating for gender- sensitive budget analysis? This is the first of three Money Matters books which are popular versions of the five South African Women's Budget analyses.
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    Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, Concepts and Experiences

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002
    This publication contains papers from a high level international conference 'Strengthening Economic and Financial Governance through Gender Responsive Budgeting' held in Brussels in October 2001.
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    Mobilising Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Resource Guide for Organisations in East and Southern Africa

    Raising Voices, 2010
    The resource guide is a tool for community-based organisations working to prevent domestic violence. It aims to assist organisations in designing and implementing a sustained community mobilization project to prevent domestic violence through creative, participatory and systematic efforts.
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    Budgeting with a Gender Focus

    1999
    The Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), an NGO committed to women's empowerment, spent nearly three years tracing the process of national planning and resource allocation, noting how it impacts on women and men, youth and the elderly.
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    Checklist for Mainstreaming Gender into the Government Budget

    2000
    How can a gender analysis be conducted of broad macro-economic models? This checklist outlines a step-by-step process to introduce ideas of gender into the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF). It is a tool aimed at all government officials in MDAs (ministries, departments and agencies) dealing with planning and budgets, primarily those who already have basic understanding of gender concepts.

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