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    Grandmothers: a Learning Institution

    2005
    To what extent are development programmes overlooking the potential role of older women, or 'grandmothers', as valuable resources in children's education? This paper examines evidence regarding the role of grandmothers in children's development, particularly in terms of education, in Africa, Asia, Latin America,the Pacific, Aboriginal Australia, and Native North America.
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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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    Women Hold Up Half the Sky

    2003
    This series of eight training videos which accompanies the above workbook is for learning about the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its relevance to women's daily lives. These short narrative dramas showing the effects of patriarchy on women and girls are based on real life stories.
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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.