Women's Empowerment

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Integrated Approach to Disaster Recovery: A toolkit on Cross-cutting Issues - Lessons from the Tsunami Recovery Unit

This publication was developed by the Tsunami Recovery Unit of UNDP Sri Lanka as an attempt to document our experiences in integrating cross-cutting issues into the post-tsunami recovery effort and to synthesize some valuable analyses, ideas, lessons learnt and recommendations into a more

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Latin America and the Caribbean Human Development Report 2010

breaking the intergenerational transmission of inequality The Regional Human Development Report for Latin America and the Caribbean 2010 champions a new approach to understanding and tackling the prevailing inequality in terms of human development plaguing Latin American and Caribbean countries. more

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Leading Resilient Development - Grassroots Practices & Innovations

This publication presents a set of grassroots women’s development innovations that build community resilience. The women’s groups and collectives described in this publication are grassroots women’s groups, whose survival and everyday lives are directly affected by natural hazards and climate more

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Making Disaster Risk Reduction Gender-Sensitive Policy and Practical Guidelines

Disasters don’t discriminate, but people do. Existing socio-economic conditions mean that disasters can lead to different outcomes even for demographically similar communities - but inevitably the most vulnerable groups suffer more than others. Research reveals that disasters reinforce, perpetuate more

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Measuring Democratic Governance

 By presenting methods for generating pro-poor gender sensitive indicators, this framework assists policy-makers monitor and evaluate democratic governance at the country level. more

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Gender Equality and UNDP

Despite progress in recent years, women and girls account for six out of 10 of the worlds poorest and two-thirds of the world's illiterate people.UNDP addresses these crucial issues by integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into its four focus areas.

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The Sustainable Future We Want

UNDP has decades of concrete development experience in countries ranging from fragile States to middle-income countries like Brazil and Indonesia. This, combined with our four focus areas, make us uniquely situated and qualified to answer the UN’s call for a better and more sustainable future.

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Teamworks is UNDP's knowledge sharing exchange that allows development professionals to gain and share knowledge

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