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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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    Open Working Group proposal for Sustainable Development Goals

    2014
    The outcome document of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO+20) set out a mandate to establish an open working group to develop a set of sustainable development goals that should be coherent with, and integrated into, the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015.
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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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    Podcast: Tackling Youth Unemployment in Africa

    International Monetary Fund, 2014
    In this IMF-produced podcast, Nigerian Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi gives his perspectives on youth unemployment across Africa, including his recommendations on how to solve this growing issue.
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    Gender budgeting as an instrument for educational attainment in Kenya

    2011
    Gender issues have continued to play a key role in the formulation of public policy across sectors worldwide. It is notable that gender gaps in many developing countries remain a challenge in the education sector. The purpose of policies is to guide action towards some identified practical goals; policies lose meaning when they remain unimplemented.
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    Guideline for gender sensitive budgeting on girls education in Ethiopia

    2009
    Development partners, including UNICEF, have been supporting the Ethiopian Government so that the country could achieve universal access to education by 2015.
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    Budgeting to end gender inequalities in the education sector

    UN Women, 2011
    This paper explains how gender responsive budgeting tools can help address persistent gender inequalities in the education sector.
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    A bright future in ICTs opportunities for a new generation of women

    International Telecommunication Union, 2012
    What opportunities does the ICT sector offer for women and how can current gender inequalities in the sector be addressed?
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    BRIDGE Report 20: What about women: why we need a gender perspective in development policy

    BRIDGE, 1993
    Since the first UN Decade for Women (1975-85), considerable progress has been made in redressing gender inequalities in developing countries. There is now wider understanding of the importance of gender in development policy and practice. However, stark disparities persist - between men's and women's relative status, access to resources, control of assets and decision
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    Focusing on Latin America

    Focusing on Latin America, 2010
    How have Latin American women been affected by the global economic crisis, and how are they faring in recovery? Focusing on Latin America (a project of Economica: Women and the Global Economy) attempts to answer this question through the creativity and vision of women artists, activists and thought leaders from Argentina, Costa Rica and Mexico.

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