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Advancing gender equality: promising practices. Experiences from the MDG Fund
This document is a collection of 20 case studies which analyze different gender equity and women’s empowerment programmes. The tool is aimed at expanding evidence-based knowledge for policies and programming that promote women’s ...
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Advancing gender equality: promising practices. Experiences from the MDG Fund
This overview presents lessons and results of specific relevance to shaping the post-2015 development framework. It contains lessons to enhance knowledge of both why results for gender equality and women’s empowerment are critical to ...
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Increased participation in decision making
This document presents lessons and results of specific relevance to shaping the post-2015 development framework in regards to increasing women’s role in decision-making in public and private institutions, as well as in families and ...
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More capacities and resources
This document shows the experience of eight successful gender equity and women’s empowerment programmes and projects. These programmes have developed a series of practices and tools at different levels of women’s economic, social ...
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Improved capabilities and resources
This document presents lessons and results of specific relevance to shaping the post-2015 development framework in regards to improved capabilities and resources including improved knowledge and health and access to resources and opportunities ...
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Life free of violence
This document collects different programmes and tools implemented in five countries, the successful outcomes of which are worth sharing to put an end to gender violence. The document discusses five programmes conducted in Bangladesh, Colombia, ...
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Freedom of violence
This document presents lessons and results of specific relevance to shaping the post-2015 development framework in regards to freedom from violence against women and girls.
It presents case studies of 7 different programmes ...
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Taking a Value Chain Approach towards Local Economic Development and Women's Economic Empowerment
Recognizing the need to increase income and to promote employment opportunities for the rural poor in Viet Nam, the Government of Viet Nam and the United Nations launched a Joint Programme on Green Production and Trade to Increase Income and ...
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