Gender_in_Development/Selected_Publications/UNDP_Gender

A Guide to Planning...Your Own Microfinance Programme - The MicroStart Guide from UNDP's Special Unit for Microfinance, offers a concrete methodology and ready-to-use tools for establishing a microfinance project. It addresses ground rules and best practices; project design and management; general principles of good planning; office set-up and staff recruitment; and record keeping and performance evaluation. Includes a Tool Kit. (Added: 4-Oct-1999 )

BEIJING +5: Women's Political Participation: Review Of Strategies And Trend - By Azza M. Karam (1999). Stock-taking of what has been achieved in terms of women's political participation; steps to fill in the information vacuum; development of co-ordinated monitoring mechanisms. (Added: 4-Oct-1999 )

Gender and the HIV Epidemic - Through its publications, UNDP's HIV and Development Programme has drawn attention to the complex and dynamic relationship which exists between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and development, especially exploring specific areas of the relationship between the epidemic and gender (Added: 21-Sep-1999 )

Gender, Urban Development and Housing - Sylvia Chant (1996. This book highlights key aspects of gender and housing affecting low-income women in urban areas of developing countries. Its main aims are to demonstrate the interacting dynamics between gender and urbanisation processes, to review key problems associated with gender-differentiated experiences of shelter, and to identify the importance of mainstreaming gender in urban planning and policy-making. (Added: 4-Oct-1999 )

Gender,Governance and the ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ - By Sally Baden. Summarises current thinking on the theoretical and empirical relationships between gender inequality and poverty, including reflection on how these relationships have been articulated in development policy discourse. Examines potential for governance structures and processes to promote poverty reduction in a way which recognises and responds to women's gendered experience of poverty. (Added: 4-Oct-1999 )

THE SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN’S BUDGET INITIATIVE - By Debbie Budlender. Presents aspects of the South African experience in the hope that they can inform similar undertakings in other countries. Its five sections discuss methodology; the theoretical framework; key alternatives for reprioritisation; alliances; and lessons learnt. (Added: 4-Oct-1999 )

UNDP Human Development Report (1995) - This report focuses on gender: progress and challenges in reducing gender disparities, with a special focus on valuing women's work. It introduced the GDI and the GEM indices, which have been used in each subsequent report to produce country rankings. (Added: 21-Sep-1999 )

Women in Panchayati Raj: Grassroots Democracy in India (Malgudi Experience) - By Poornima and Vinod Vyasulu. Reviews the Indian initiative to have mandatory reservation of one-third seats in local governments (Panchayats) for women. This report reviews the overall picture of women in panchayati raj institutions--PRIs; discusses the structure of the system as it has evolved so far, focusing on the experience of Karnataka state (Added: 4-Oct-1999 )

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