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    The rural-urban divide in health and development

    Population Reference Bureau, 2015
    This data-sheet from the Population Reference Bureau presents data from 2014 to compare rural and urban trends and metrics relevant to human development. The data is drawn from multiple sources, and provides a snapshot of developing countries at a time of rapid urbanisation and social change.
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    Global Gender Gap Report 2015

    World Economic Forum, 2016
    The Global Gender Gap Index 2015, a product of the work of the World Economic Forum, is an interactive, mapped index that ranks 145 economies according to how well they are leveraging their female talent pool, based on economic, educational, health-based and political indicators.
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    Women’s work: mothers, children and the global childcare crisis

    Overseas Development Institute, 2016
    All around the world, mothers are forced to make difficult choices in how to balance work an
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    Walk the talk: gender equality in the African Union

    UN Women, 2015
    As new United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) initiatives and development agendas commence in 2015, women throughout Africa are suffering from a disproportionate lack of resources, access to education, health and legal services, a
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    Preparing teachers to deliver gender-focused sexuality/HIV education: a case study from Nigeria

    Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2015
    Recent evidence has shown that a focus on gender and power in sexuality/HIV e
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    Nigeria MDGs End-point Report 2015

    Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs, 2015
    For 15 years, the global development agenda was defined by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet it wasn’t until 2005, five years into the process, that Nigeria, bolstered by debt relief negotiated with the Paris Club, got moving in trying to achieve these development targets. So how did Nigeria do?
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    Menstrual Hygiene matters

    Wateraid, 2012
    Globally, approximately 52% of the female population (26% of the total population) is of reproductive age. Most of these women and girls will menstruate each month for between two and seven days. Menstruation is an integral and normal part of human life and menstrual hygiene is fundamental to the dignity and wellbeing of women and girls.
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    United Nations global gender statistics programme: minimum set of gender indicators

    United Nations, 2014
    Following the recommendations by the United Nations Statistical Commission, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on Gender Statistics identified a minimum set of gender indicators composed of 52 quantitative indicators, and 11 qualitative indicators covering national norms and laws on gender equality.
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    Gender Inequality Index

    United Nations Development Programme, 2014
    The Gender Inequality Index (GII), produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development: reproductive health, measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates; empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and o
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    The Millennium Development Goals report gender chart 2014

    United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2014
    This special edition of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Gender Chart was produced for the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, March 2014. It presents sex-disaggregated data on each of the MDG goals (not simply that of MDG3 on gender equality) in a clear, concise format using simple data visualisation methods.

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