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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Women’s Empowerment Principles: Equality Means Business (2010). This brochure introduces the Women’s Empowerment Principles, which offer practical guidance to business and the private sector on how to empower women in the workplace, marketplace and community. It makes the business case for corporate action to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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Making the MDGs Work Better for Women (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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A User’s Guide to Measuring Gender-Sensitive Basic Service Delivery (2009). This guide is intended to contribute to the development and more effective use of gender-sensitive indicators so that services are delivered more efficiently and effectively to women. It should be seen as a generic and basic tool to map and anlyse governance of basic service delivery from a gender perspective. It includes indicators and measurement tools and presents examples of newly developed and innovative measurement initiatives in women’s access to public services.
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