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In order to reduce the burden of poverty on women and other vulnerable groups, the Zambian government developed a Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) 2002-2004 and mainstreamed gender in this programme. The PRSP, which ... focuses on social sector activities with a view to enhancing their service delivery effectiveness, aims at addressing the high poverty levels. Gender mainstreaming has also been done in the Medium Term Expenditure Framework, a three-year framework, and in the budget formulation process.
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This handbook is an adaptation of an extended book by Naila Kabeer provisionally entitled Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals: Maximising Synergies and Minimising Trade-offs, to be published jointly by the Commonwealth Secretariat and Routledge in autumn 2003. Readers may wish to refer to the full text contained within the Routledge publication for greater depth and elaboration of
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Egypt: the Second National Conference on Egyptian Women focused on policy formulation for the advancement of women in preparation for the five-year plan for economic development of 1997 - 2002. One of the recommendations from this conference was to promote employment and policies, making women effective in raising the productivity of Egyptian society.
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"Moving beyond a simple biomedical model, this book compels us to view AIDS in women in a wholly new way, as an inescapable event in lives devalued by the forces of poverty, racism, and sexism. This extraordinary multidisciplinary effort should serve as the guidebook for those who want to understand how AIDS could become a leading killer of young women in a mere decade." --Deborah Cotton, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, editor of The Medical Management of AIDS in Women
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Migration has historically offered an important escape route from the debilitating constraints of excessive population and poverty, as well as from the devastation of war and ethnic conflict. Yet migration remains controversial due to the adverse effects on the welfare of sending and receiving communities and nations.
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