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Gender and Development
Fundraising for Change
This Global Fund for Women fundraising handbook is a practical guide for women’s rights organisations. (Global Fund for Women: 2007) More info >>
Gender and governance in China: turning the rhetoric into practice
This brief by Hassall & Associates International examines how the China Australia Governance Program funded by AusAID, has worked to meet the challenge of turning the rhetoric on gender equity into effective practice. (Hassall & Associates International: January 2007) More info >>
Ideas for working with girls
A project of the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC), Women, Ink., has compiled a resource collection of games, training manuals, workshop guides and other learning resources for teachers, trainers and development workers who are working for and with girls. (International Women's Tribune Centre: 2006) More info >>
Gender responsive budgeting in practice: a training manual
This training manual seeks to build understanding of gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) as a tool for promoting gender equity, accountability to women's rights and efficiency and transparency in budget policies and processes. (UNIFEM: 2006) More info >>
Budgeting with women in mind
This article looks at how an understanding of the way public policies have different effects on men and women is influencing macroeconomic policymaking. (IMF: 2007) More info >>
femLINKpacific
femLINKpacific is a Fijian organisation that aims to promote women's equality and empowerment through community and media initiatives. (femLINKpacific: 2007) More info >>
Gender equality in Australia's aid program
This AusAID policy document describes what Australia will do to advance gender equality through the aid program and provides sample indicators and results on gender equality that can be incorporated into programs or initiatives. (AusAID: March 2007) More info >>
Engaging boys and men to empower girls: reflections from practice and evidence of impact
Reflects on the ways boys are socialized to see girls and women as sexually subservient. It also documents lessons learned from some of the emerging experiences in engaging boys and men in empowering girls and women in diverse settings. (UN: 2006) More info >>
Globalisation, economic policy and employment: poverty and gender implications
This study analyses the overall impact of globalisation and macroeconomic policies on employment and poverty trends with a specific gender perspective, and aims to engender employment and poverty implications of macroeconomic policies. (International Labour Organization: 2006) More info >>
Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships
This paper identifies the considerations needed to ensure that gender equality is central to the aid effectiveness agenda. (UNIFEM: 2006) More info >>
Indonesia country gender assessment
This report provides a country-level analysis of gender in Indonesia. (ADB: July 2006) More info >>
WomenÂ’s fundraising handbook
A handbook to assist women's groups to fund raise for their organisation. (Global Fund for Women: 1995) More info >>
Indications of Change? Measuring progress towards gender equality.
Background paper for the symposium on the harmonisation of gender indicators held in Canberra, Australia, 15-16 June 2006. (International Women's Development Agency (IWDA): 2006) More info >>
What part do women play in world economic activity?
Examines the difficulty in capturing women's contribution to economic activity through statistics. (United Nations Statistics Division: January 2006) More info >>
Successful strategies for addressing gender equality issues in programs and projects: what works?
Provides practical experiences from the field about what has worked and what hasn't in building partnerships based on gender equality. (Development Studies Network - ANU) More info >>
Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world
Examines the gender implications of the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. (United Nations Research Institute for Social Development: February 2005) More info >>
Progress of the world's women 2005: women, work and poverty
This report makes the case for an increased focus on women's informal employment as a key pathway to reducing poverty and strengthening women's economic security. (United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM): 2005) More info >>
Glossary of gender related terms and concepts
A glossary of terms and concepts as they relate to gender and development.
(United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW): 2004)
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Women wise up! Conference outcomes 2001
This paper provides recommendations from a 2001 conference held in Sydney to review the UN Special Sitting to assess the Beijing Platform for Action. (Australian National Council on Refugee Women: 2001) More info >>