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1. World Water Day 2007: IFC and the World Bank run an online dialogue on water
2. Managing the Exchange Rate Consequences of an MDG-Related Scale-Up in HIV/AIDS Financing
3. Why 60 Million Girls still aren't in School and what to do about it
4. EDUCATED GIRLS: A Cornerstone of Healthy Families and Societies
5. The Social Watch 2007: Gender Equity Index (GEI)
6. UNFPA Online Video Channel
7. EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007 - Strong Foundations: Early childhood care and education
8. Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI)
9. Unidad Mujer y Desarrollo
10. DÃa de la Mujer, Sara Sefchovich
11. IFAD - Programme support for policy analysis, advocacy and networking to address gender inequalities and the vulnerability of women
12. Survival, Change and Decision-Making in Rural Households: Three Village Case Studies from Eastern Morocco
13. IFAD in Morocco
14. Rural Development Project in the Eastern Middle Atlas Mountains
15. Global Donor Platform on Rural Development
16. Harmonisation & Alignment - Global Donor Platform
17. Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
18. UNESCAP and Gender
19. Women and Mental Health - WHO
20. WHO - Gender equality, work and health: A review of the evidence, 2006
21. Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS: Critical Intersections - Violence against sex workers and HIV prevention
22. Integrating gender analysis and actions into the work of WHO
23. WHO - Millenium Development Goal "Storyline" Additions
24. SEARO High-Level Consultation on Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use
25. Major Issues and Challenges for Tobacco Control in South-East Asia
26. Changing Lives, One Woman At A Time.
27. August 12, 2006 - Talk by Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women
28. Global Fund for Women Impact Report - Caught in the Storm - The Impact of Natural Disasters
29. Global Fund for Women - 2004-2005 Annual Report. Investing in Women, Beyond the Rhetoric
30. Global Fund for Women Impact Report. More Than Money: Strategies to Build Women's Economic Power
31. Women’s equal rights to housing, land and property in international law.
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1. World Water Day 2007: IFC and the World Bank run an online dialogue on water
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094329In occasion of World Water Day 2007, and as a follow up to the World Bank's Water week, the Private Sector Development blog is running an online dialogue on water issues. Corinne Figueredo, Manager of the IFC's Cleaner Techologies practice area, is...
Contribuido por giulio quaggiotto el 19 Mar , 2007
2. Managing the Exchange Rate Consequences of an MDG-Related Scale-Up in HIV/AIDS Financing
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094140"The prospect of scaling-up aid inflows to address the challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is looked on with some trepidation by many policy makers who dread potential Dutch disease effects. This paper argues that, given the effect of the epidemic on...
Contribuido por Emmanuel Asomba el 19 Mar , 2007
3. Why 60 Million Girls still aren't in School and what to do about it
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094089Remarkable progress has been made to educate girls across the world, yet much remains to be done. The book “Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't in School and What to do About It†explains that about 60 millions girls do not have...
Contribuido por Chijioke Evoh el 17 Mar , 2007
4. EDUCATED GIRLS: A Cornerstone of Healthy Families and Societies
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094113Basic education provides enormous social and economic gains to girls and the society in general. Education for girls is a major development investment in any country According to Basic Education Coalition, investing in girls’ education is associated...
Contribuido por Chijioke Evoh el 17 Mar , 2007
5. The Social Watch 2007: Gender Equity Index (GEI)
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094066The Social Watch 2007 Gender Equity Index (GEI) has been presented in the context of the 51st Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in early March. The GEI was developed to measure inequities in different areas of women's and men's...
Contribuido por Mahmud Hasan el 16 Mar , 2007
6. UNFPA Online Video Channel
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094084This United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) video channel contains a collection of video features beginning in 2004. The collection is organized by topic and easily searchable by country or keywords. Topics include reproductive health, fistula,...
Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 16 Mar , 2007
7. EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007 - Strong Foundations: Early childhood care and education
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094315"Time is running out to meet the EFA goals set in 2000. Despite continued overall global progress at the primary level, including for girls, too many children are not in school, drop out early or do not reach minimal learning standards". Author(s):...
Contribuido por Emmanuel Asomba el 19 Mar , 2007
8. Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI)
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094409OSAGI's main objective is to promote and strengthen the effective implementation of the Millennium Declaration, the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) and the Outcome Document of the special...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
9. Unidad Mujer y Desarrollo
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094414Foro virtual preparatorio de la décima Conferencia Regional sobre la Mujer de América Latina y el Caribe (español e ingles). Concluyeron los foros virtuales llevados a cabo con las autoridades de los mecanismos nacionales de la mujer en América...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
10. DÃa de la Mujer, Sara Sefchovich
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094417En este dÃa que se usa celebrar a las mujeres, es importante hablar del feminismo, dado que se trata de la teorÃa y la práctica, el pensamiento y la acción, el sueño y la propuesta de vida que revolucionaron al mundo en el siglo XX. La anterior no es...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
11. IFAD - Programme support for policy analysis, advocacy and networking to address gender inequalities and the vulnerability of women
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094422Despite women’s essential productive and reproductive roles, women still have significantly less access than men to resources, assets, knowledge and community management and decision-making. IFAD’s Strategy for Rural Poverty Reduction in Asia and the...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
12. Survival, Change and Decision-Making in Rural Households: Three Village Case Studies from Eastern Morocco
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094429Elhouafi and Taghilast are poor communities where rainfed cereal production and extensive livestock-rearing are practised in increasingly degraded natural environments. In spite of the many similarities between the two villages, the case studies...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
13. IFAD in Morocco
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094433Since 1979, IFAD has financed nine rural development projects in Morocco, for a total of US$146.3 million. Four of the projects are ongoing. The first generation of projects, over the period 1979 to 1986, focused mainly on increasing rainfed and...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
14. Rural Development Project in the Eastern Middle Atlas Mountains
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094437This project seeks to improve the living conditions of rural populations in one of Morocco’s poorest regions. Small-scale farmers, women, unemployed young people and landless labourers are among the project participants. A number of different...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
15. Global Donor Platform on Rural Development
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094448Three-quarters of the world's poor live in rural areas. That number will not decrease in years to come unless development agencies and developing countries "get the rural development agenda right". The global consensus on the strategic directions...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
16. Harmonisation & Alignment - Global Donor Platform
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094451The Platform is active in four pilot countries – Cambodia, Tanzania, Burkina Faso and Nicaragua – where we are facilitating existing harmonisation and alignment efforts in rural development, in line with the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness of...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
17. Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094454The sexual abuse and exploitation of children, including rape and incest of youth are regional challenges that demand urgent action. Sexual exploitation, which includes, but is not limited to prostitution, trafficking and pornography, is also on the...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
18. UNESCAP and Gender
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094463The UNESCAP region has seen a major shift in the role and status of women in the past two decades. Considerable progress has been made in gaining recognition of the twelve critical areas of concern contained in the Beijing Platform for Action adopted...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
19. Women and Mental Health - WHO
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094466In many under-served populations, women have considerable mental health needs. However, until recent years, the conception of women's mental health has been limited as have attempts to protect and promote it. When women's health issues have been...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
20. WHO - Gender equality, work and health: A review of the evidence, 2006
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094469This volume summarizes the evidence about the relationship between gender inequality and health and safety problems related to work. It reviews gender issues in research, policies and programmes on occupational health and safety, and highlights some...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
21. Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS: Critical Intersections - Violence against sex workers and HIV prevention
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094471WHO Information Bulletin Series, Number 3. This information bulletin is the third in a series of four, presenting evidence on how violence against women and girls, in its different forms, increases their risk of HIV infection and undermines AIDS...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
22. Integrating gender analysis and actions into the work of WHO
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094478Following a series of international mandates such as the ECOSOC Resolutions (1997 & 2006) and the Beijing Platform for Action, WHO is taking a gender-based approach to its work. This is in line with the recently adopted UN system-wide strategy to...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
23. WHO - Millenium Development Goal "Storyline" Additions
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094481The United Nations Millennium Declaration, ratified in 2000, lays out a path toward development and freedom from want for all the peoples of the world. To allow for monitoring of progress along this path, representatives of UN agencies and other...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
24. SEARO High-Level Consultation on Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094484A Regional High-Level Consultation on the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use was held in SEARO from 22 to 23 February 2007 with the objectives of enhancing understanding of the Bloomberg Initiative to the high-level policy-makers in...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
25. Major Issues and Challenges for Tobacco Control in South-East Asia
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094488Currently, 1.3 billion persons use tobacco in the world. Tobacco continues to be the second major cause of death in the world. Half of today's tobacco users will eventually be killed by tobacco, and most of them will be in developing countries....
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
26. Changing Lives, One Woman At A Time.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094497Feb. 26 - KGO - Women perform two-thirds of all labor and produce more than half of the world's food, yet only own about one percent of the world's assets. Those statistics come from the Global Fund for Women, the only organization of its kind trying...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
27. August 12, 2006 - Talk by Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094505The Global Fund for Women is a U.S.-based, international network of women and men that advances women’s human rights by making grants to women-led organizations that promote the economic independence, health, safety, education and leadership of women...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
28. Global Fund for Women Impact Report - Caught in the Storm - The Impact of Natural Disasters
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094508Caught in the Storm: The Impact of Natural Disasters by Global Fund Activist in Residence, Lin Chew and President Kavita Ramdas explores the disproportionate vulnerability of women in disaster situations and offers recommendations for changing the...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
29. Global Fund for Women - 2004-2005 Annual Report. Investing in Women, Beyond the Rhetoric
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094515The 2004-2005 Annual Report details how the Global Fund is moving beyond the rhetoric by investing in women's efforts to change the world. Read stories from the front lines about how Global Fund grantees are claiming rights to food security,...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
30. Global Fund for Women Impact Report. More Than Money: Strategies to Build Women's Economic Power
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094518This report by the Global Fund for Women outlines key lessons learned from the Fund's three-year economic opportunity initiative. The publication of the report is the result of a partnership between the Three Guineas Fund and the Global Fund for...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
31. Women’s equal rights to housing, land and property in international law.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1094588( UN Habitat Publication). Women’s equal rights to adequate housing, land and property are well elaborated under international human rights law but are often elusive in practice. This document is a reference guide to international human rights...
Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Mar , 2007
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