Transforming the National AIDS Response: Advancing Women’s Leadership and Participation (2010). This publication is the second in a series of resource guides dedicated to highlighting strategies for incorporating gender equality and women’s rights into national HIV and AIDS responses. It discusses various approaches for advancing women’s leadership and meaningful participation of HIV-positive women in the AIDS response.
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Evaluation Report: UNIFEM’s Work on Gender-Responsive Budgeting (2010). The evaluation, split into three sets of reports, provides critical lessons on what conditions and mechanisms enable or hinder UNIFEM’s work in increasing gender equality in budget processes and practices. It also analyses UNIFEM’s overall approach to gender-responsive budget programming.
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Evaluation Report: UNIFEM’s Partnerships with Regional Organizations to Advance Gender Equality (2010). This report assesses UNIFEM’s partnerships with regional organizations in order to affect progress towards gender equality at regional and national levels. It reviews existing partnerships and discusses areas for development, and includes profiles of six partners and the work undertaken by the organizations to promote and enchance gender equality.
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Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence – An Analytical Inventory of Peacekeeping Practice (2010). This publication captures best practices and emerging elements for a more effective response by peacekeepers to women’s security concerns, especially in combating sexual violence, the premise of Security Council resolutions 1820 and 1888. It is also part of a broader agenda to improve the capacities of peacekeepers to protect civilians effectively.
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