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Civil Society and NGO Reports, Papers and Statements

Making the MDGs Work Better for Women
UNDP/UNIFEM, 2010
This publication provides knowledge on successful practices and approaches that governments, donors and civil society can take to make the Millennium Development Goals work better for women. It reviews the successes and challenges faced in meeting MDG targets and the extent to which national reports have addressed gender in reporting on each goal. It concludes with a set of key recommendations for advancing progress towards achieving gender equality.

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Gender Perspectives on the Global Economic Crisis
Oxfam, 2010
The economic crisis continues to affect many women and men living in poverty. But how these effects are felt depends, to a large extent, on their relationships with the people and institutions with whom they interact. These relationships are profoundly different for women and men. Unemployment hits poor families hard, regardless of whether it is a man or woman who is laid off.

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Financing for Development and Women’s Rights: A Critical Review
Women In Development Europe (WIDE), 2009
In the last decade, the way in which development is conceptualized and implemented has changed significantly, and so have the political contexts in which this implementation takes place. This has had implications on how gender equality and women’s empowerment is being achieved. The publication reviews the current debates about development, as well as the background for this new aid architecture, and analyzes the international frameworks for financing for development and women rights, as well as governments´ commitments for resources. It also summarizes and analyzes all the contributions to the aid effectiveness agenda from a gender perspective.

The publication was written by Carmen de la Cruz and has been translated from Spanish into English.

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The Impact of the Crisis on Women in Central Asia
Nurgul Djanaeva, Forum of Women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, 2009
The current global crisis is bringing economic and financial burden to working class women and rural women's lives in Central Asia, which were and still are under tremendous impact of the previous crisis. Cut in trade, leading to cut of textile production with majority female employees, reduction of remittance is leading to increase of their job insecurity, significant reduction of women's income, increase of their vulnerability to greater gender discrimination,
to reduction in access to education and health services. Women entrepreneurs have fewer opportunities to get access to financial resources

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Toward Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women
International Center for Research on Women, 2005
This brief includes excerpts from Taking action: achieving gender equality and empowering women, the 2005 report of the U.N. Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality. The Task Force was commissioned by the U.N. Secretary-General to identify strategies that low- and middle-income countries can adopt to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of gender equality and women’s empowerment and to make recommendations to the international community on how best to support countries toward that end.

Financial Sustainability for Women’s Movements Worldwide
AWID, 2007
The Report is second in a series of publications resulting from AWID’s multi-year action research initiative “Where is the Money for Women’s Rights”, set up to not only offer insights and strategies for achieving a significant increase in access to and amount of funding available to support women’ rights work, but also to improve the effectiveness of women’s organizations to raise more funds and utilize them to build stronger movements and progress gender equality globally.

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The Global Gender Gap Report
World Economic Forum, 2007
The Report examines four critical areas of inequality between men and women:
1. Economic participation and opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment
2. Educational attainment – outcomes on access to basic and higher level education
3. Political empowerment – outcomes on representation in decision-making structures
4. Health and survival – outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio

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Women's Economic Empowerment: Meeting the Needs of Impoverished Women
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2007
Many studies have recognized the importance of improving the status of impoverished women. This workshop report describes a number of approaches used to date to empower women economically, including microcredit. The report includes a review of the literature on women's economic empowerment and a summary of presentations from the workshop.

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Achieving Women's Economic and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from Experience
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), 2006
In 2005 AWID asked over 50 activists working in diverse settings all over the world what strategies they found most useful in their efforts to improve economic and social rights for women? The insights provided include those from feminist activists working with a variety of strategies including the use of litigation and judicial processes, making and reforming policy, engaging with budgets, drawing on UN mechanisms, using fact finding and research, and organizing campaigns and popular mobilizations. The report reflects on some of the challenges as well as the strengths of using these different approaches and highlights what we can draw as lessons for our own advocacy work.

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Moving up the food chain: lessons from gender mainstreaming at the World Food Programme
Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, August 2006
The paper focuses on the existence and implementation of policies and tools used for mainstreaming gender in WFP, including targeting programmes and guidelines. It reviews how mainstreaming is monitored, evaluated and assessed and the degree to which gender impact analysis is incorporated in those processes.

How Does Change Happen?
AWID International Forum on Women’s Rights and Development, Daily Plenary Reports, 27 – 30 October, 2005
A summation of the speeches given by plenary session panelists at AWID's 10th International Forum on Women's Rights in Development held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Reflections on Cancun and Implications for the Future
International Gender and Trade Network, Monthly Bulletin, Vol. 3 No.7, September 2003

Displaced Women Face Particular Difficulties Finding Employment in Colombia
IDP Project of the Norweigan Refugee Council, 2003

Reinventing Globalization
Alison Symington (Ed.), 2003
This report is a compilation of the speeches of plenary session panelists and workshop summaries at the Association for Women's Rights in Development's (AWID) 9th International Forum on Women's Rights in Development in Guadalajara, Mexico, 3-6 October 2002.
Reinventando la Globalizacion
Alison Symington (Ed.), 2003
Puntos sobresalientes del Noveno Foro Internacional de AWID sobre los Derechos de la Mujer y Desarollo en Guadalajara, Mexico el 3 al 6 de octubre del 2002
Reinventer la Mondialisation
Alsion Symington (Ed.), 2003
Les moments forts du 9eme Forum International de l'AWID sur les droits de la femme et le developpement en Guadalajara, Mexique 3-6 au octobre 2002

Critical Moments, Signs of Resistance and Evolving Strategies
Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ), World Social, Forum III, Porto Alegre, Brazil, January 2003

Dossiê Globalização e Trabalho: Perspectivas de Gênero
Christiane Girard Ferreira nunes, Centro Feminista de Estudos e Assessoria (CFEMEA), Brasília, dezembro de 2002/2003
O estudo contextualiza a globalização, enfatizando as transformações ocorridas no trabalho e os impactos desse processo. Reflete sobre as desigualdades nacionais e internacionais, particularmente no que tange à questão da desindustrialização e aos impactos deste fenômeno sobre os empregos, setor formal e informal, e o desemprego. A autora, Christiane Girard, é professora doutora do departamento de sociologia da UnB e pesquisadora da área de sociologia do trabalho. O dossiê é uma publicação do CFEMEA, com apoio do FIG - CIDA (Fundo para Igualdade de Gênero/Agência Canadense para o Desenvolvimento).

Dossiê Políticas Públicas e Relações de Gênero no Mercado de Trabalho
Sivia Cristina Yannoulas, Brasília, Centro Feminista de Estudos e Assessoria (CFEMEA), novembro de 2002
Ano de publicação: 2002A publicação apresenta uma análise da realidade das mulheres no mercado e nas relações de trabalho, um breve histórico da introdução da problemática de gênero nas agendas públicas e institucionais, além de uma avaliação das agendas parlamentar, sindical e feminista no Brasil. O Dossiê pretende subsidiar a atuação conjunta de instituições sindicais, associações profissionais, organizações do movimento de mulheres e o Legislativo Federal, no que diz respeito à formulação de políticas públicas de trabalho e à negociação de pautas sindicais, com consideração da problemática de gênero.

Statement on Global Economy: Gender, Class and Racism
Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ), UN Commission on the Status of Women, New York, March 2001

Women's Land and Property Rights in Conflict and Reconstruction
Based on the February 1998 Inter-Regional Consultation in Kigali, Rwanda, this publication brings together case studies, testimonies and analytical studies drawn from countries in situations of conflict and reconstruction from across Africa, South and Central America, the Balkans, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific Region.

Structural Adjustment Programmes and the Human Rights of African Women
Petronella Maramba, Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi and Rosalie Tiani Webanenou for Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF)
This report gives information on Structural Adjustment Programs which are designed to reorganise or restructure national economies. It highlights the impact structural adjustment has had on civil and political right, particularly those of women, and contains recommendations to improve the status of women and children living under Structural Adjustment Programs.

UN Documents

Progress of the world’s women 2008/2009
Who answers to women? Gender and accountability
UNIFEM, September 2008
Progress of the world’s women 2008/2009 focuses on five key areas where the need to strengthen accountability to women is urgent: politics and governance, access to public services, economic opportunities, justice, and finally the distribution of international assistance for development and security.

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Gender and sustainable development: Maximising the economic, Social and environmental role of women
OECD, 2008
Although women account for over one-half of the potential talent base throughout the world, as a group they have been marginalised and their economic, social and environmental contributions go in large part unrealised. This market and systems failure is discussed here in terms of gender constraints, which are based on the socially-constructed and historically developed roles of men and women. Exploring the various aspects of sustainable development with a gender perspective, e.g. the place of women, highlights the economic costs of continuing gender gaps. It also illuminates how female contributions can be better realised at present and how strategies can be developed for meeting the needs of future generations, women and men alike.

The Millennium Development Goals Report 2007
United Nations, 2007
The Millennium Declaration set 2015 as the target date for achieving most of the Goals. As we approach the midway point of this 15-year period, data are now becoming available that provide an indication of progress during the first third of this 15-year period. This report presents the most comprehensive global assessment of progress to date, based on a set of data prepared by a large number of international organizations within and outside the United Nations system.

Financing Gender Equality Is Financing Development
UNIFEM, February 2008
Gender equality is recognized as being essential to human development, making it critical to ensure that all aspects of development financing, domestic and international, fully recognize women’s economic contributions, and support their economic security and rights. Hence, macroeconomic policies, which influence the volume and distribution of resources for development, must promote both employment generation and productive growth, reduce income and asset disparities, moderate vulnerabilities related to changes in the global economy, protect against environmental and social risks, and explore innovative sources of financing. This paper is a contribution to the discussion on Financing for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment at this year’s session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

Gender Equality for Development Effectiveness: National Development Planning in the Commonwealth of Independent States
UNIFEM, January 2008
This discussion paper examines the challenges for national development planning presented by the centrality of poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) in the region following their integration into the aid effectiveness agenda. Arguing that it is therefore imperative for gender equality advocates to focus greater attention on development planning cycles and budget processes, the paper examines each of the stages in the planning process at which gender equality priorities tend to evaporate. It also underlines the skills needed to ensure that this does not happen, and compares experiences of engagement in national development planning processes in different countries.

The Missing Link in Growth and Sustainable Development: Closing the Gender Gap: An Issues Paper
African Development Bank/Economic Commission for Africa Symposium on Gender, Growth and Sustainable Development, Kampala, Uganda, 24 May 2004
This Issues Paper was prepared by Alfred Latigo of the Policy Analysis and Advocacy Programme, African Centre for Gender and Development, Economic Commission for Africa and co-authored by Duncan Ironmonger, Consultant.

Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries
Analysis based on initial and periodic reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1997-2003)
FAO/IFAD/International Land Coalition, Maria Hartl, Consultant, July/August 2003

Books, Journals and Articles

What Do We Mean by "Feminization of Poverty"?
Marcelo Medeiros and Joana Costa
New International Poverty Centre Publication - UNDP
The authors define the feminization of poverty as a change in poverty levels that is biased against women or female-headed households. This definition provides a simple but effective tool for conducting policy analysis.

Engendering Human Security, Feminist Perspectives
Edited by Thanh-Dam Truong, Saskia Wieringa & Amrita Chhachhi 2006. 326 pages. ISBN 1 84277 779 3. WE844. $29.95
Engaging a feminist perspective to examine human security in the context of globalization, this volume of essays links culture with politics and economics, and integrates an analysis of class, ethnicity and other dimensions of gender identity. The emergence of human security as an evolving concept represents a collective search among policy makers, academics and civil society organizations for the ability to comprehend and respond to threats -to human life and dignity - that are the result of the interplay between global and national/local forces. While discourses about human security have brought together issues such as human dignity, rights and well-being, and have spanned various disciplines (examples: security studies, economics of human development, international relations, law etc.), they have failed to incorporate gender issues in such a seamless manner. Thus, a key thematic area concerns the intersection between gender - as a domain of power – and human security as a policy framework. In this regard, contributors query the notion of human security from three angles - the body, the domain of care and the domain of political agency.

Budgeting with Women in Mind
Janet Stotsky, June 2007

This article argues that the understanding of how public policies have different effects on men and women has improved in recent years and is influencing macroeconomic policymaking. Reducing gender disparities can lead to improved macroeconomic performance. The recognition that gender disparities are harmful and that government budgets are not gender neutral implies a need to incorporate gender considerations into the budgeting process.

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Women and Land in Africa: Culture, Religion and Realizing Women's Rights
L. Muthoni Wanyeki (Ed.). 2003
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Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy and Society
Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Marsha Pripstein Posusney (Eds.), 2003
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Agrarian Change, Gender and Land Rights
Shahra Razavi (Ed.). UNRISD, 2003
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Women Challenging Globalisation
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) (Eds.), 2002
A gender perspective on the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development, 18-22 March 2002, Monterrey, Mexico

Gender Budgets Make More Cents: Country Studies and Good Practices
Debbie Budlender and Guy Hewitt (Eds.), 2002
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Rural Women in Africa: Ideas for Earning Money [CD-ROM]
International Women's Tribune Centre and IDRC, 2001
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Women's Empowerment and Economic Justice: Reflecting on the Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean
Liliana De Pauli (Ed.), 2000

The Globalized Woman: Reports from a Future of Inequality
Christa Wichterich, 2000
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