Gender Equality
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Cleo-Patria Foundation - Rotterdam
02 Nov 2005The Cleo-Patria foundation creates safe meeting places for women, where participation, emancipation and integration are promoted.
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Promotion of female entrepreneurship - GR
11 Sep 2006Starting your own business can be more difficult if you’re a woman. In general, financial institutions are more reluctant to provide women with capital and, in many instances friends and family are not very supportive. As a result, female entrepreneurship tends to be under-exploited in Greece, even though the female unemployment rate is very high compared with that of men, particularly in the 21-45-age bracket. This encouraged the Ministry for Development to establish an initiative to promote female entrepreneurship.
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URBAN Italia Savona: renewing the city centre in order to strengthen social services and equal opportunities - Savona, IT.
31 Dec 2008The URBAN Italia Savona Programme aims at regenerating the town and restoring the most important and no longer in use historic buildings. The URBAN Italia Savona Programme key objective is to improve socio-economic features through an integrated approach starting from the regeneration of the city centre.
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URBAN II Carrara: integrated strategies to improve business and fight social exclusion - Carrara, IT.
31 Dec 2008The “URBAN II Carrara” Programme supports the development of specific urban areas through an integrated strategy focused on environmental regeneration, improvement of enterprises and trade and strengthening of social cohesion.
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Development a Transversal Gender Committee - Cordoba, ES
30 Nov 2006The Transversal Gender Committee involves members of the main departments of the Cordoba Provincial Council, in order to coordinate equality policies.
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Dundee International Women’s Centre
09 Oct 2008The Dundee International Women’s Centre has delivered services targeted at women living in Dundee, for the past 39 years. Recently the Centre has greatly expanded and diversified though taking on larger, purpose built premises. Service users of all ages and nationalities have acquired ownership though hands-on input into the design and formulation of premises and service provision.
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Gender Mainstreaming in urban development
01 Jan 2005In the research field ‘Gender Mainstreaming in Urban Development’ within ExWoSt-research of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) transferable procedures are to be developed that enable the communities to actually implement the common equal opportunities objective within everyday administrative planning.
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Facing conflicting pressures. Young educated women and competition society
05 May 2006The study deals with highly educated women about to enter the labour market in Finland.
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Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical perspective
04 Aug 2009This title is published in the IMISCOE-AUP Book Series. In co-operation with the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) the IMISCOE Network has created four IMISCOE book series.
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The Global Gender Gap Report 2009
27 Oct 2009Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third positionbehind Finland (2). Sweden (4) completed the Nordic countries’ continued dominance of the top four. The report’s Index assesses countries on how well they are dividing their resources and opportunities among their male and female populations, regardless of the overall levels of these resources and opportunities. South Africa and Lesotho made great strides inclosing their gender gaps to enter the top 10, at 6th and 10th position respectively. The Philippines (9) lost ground for the first time in four years but remains the leading Asian country in the rankings. Out of the 115 countries covered in the report since 2006, more than two-thirds have posted gains in overall index scores, indicating that the world in general has made progress towards equality between men and women, although there are countries that continue to lose ground.
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Building-related income generation for women: Lessons from experience
07 Jan 2008This report is intended to highlight women's needs in training and job-placement in the construction industry and to suggest ways in which affirmative action can be taken to overcome the barriers traditionally faced by women in obtaining construction-industry employment.
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Forward-Looking Evaluation of Gender Mainstreaming in UN-HABITAT
16 Nov 2007Evaluation of the achievements of UN-HABITAT in implementing programmes addressing women’s empowerment and gender mainstreaming in its overall activities.
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Right and reality, Are women’s equal rights to land, housing and property implemented in East Africa?
20 Nov 2007Are women’s equal rights to land, housing and property implemented in East Africa?
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Women’s Rights to Land, Housing and Property in Post-Conflict Situations and During Reconstruction
02 Oct 2007This report synthesizes and analyzes women's experiences across regions in accessing and controlling land, housing and property in the context of armed conflict and reconstruction. It also provides a summary of the central barriers women face in claiming and enforcing their rights to land, housing and property.
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Women neighbourhood partnership
A Women's Neighbourhood Partnership enables women to discover their talents and capacities, follow courses and gain work experience in individual and collaborative projects; all in a safe and secure environment in which due allowance is made for their tasks as carers.
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Frauen - Werk - Stadt
18 Jan 2011In the early nineties, The City of Vienna has launched the first model project ‘Frauen – Werk – Stadt’, a housing project which promotes the role of women in urban development. The key objective of the project is to meet women’s requirements in terms of daily life, housing construction and safety. It also aims to increase women’s recognition in the architects branch and housing sector. After the success of the first Frau -Werk -Stadt I, two sequels followed, using a different approach. All projects share the concept of gender-sensitive planning and are implemented by the City of Vienna- Municipal Department.
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Gender4Growth: growth and gender equity in the workplace
15 Nov 2012INTERREG IVC project Gender4Growth seeks to update partner’s economic policies with enough consideration to gender issues. Sub-goals will be to identify the appropriate economic policies that integrate full contribution of gender, make adequate support available to them, initiate transfer to partners, and develop enough targeted communication so as to provide higher level decision-making influence that will ease adoption of adequate measures. The partnership consists of 8 partners coming from 7 countries.