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| Promoting an Integrated Approach to Combat Gender Based Violence
A Training Manual
New Gender Mainstreaming Series on Development Issues
ISBN: 9780850927146
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:88
This manual promotes an integrated approach to combat gender-based violence with governments, non-governmental organisations, private sector and international organisations working together. It addresses the problems inherent in the current strategies, especially lack of collaboration between the different agencies and individuals working in the area of gender-based violence. Promoting an Integrated Approach to Combat Gender Based Violence encourages development and implementation of comprehensive and coherent policies, programmes and national plans of action on gender-based violence.
It provides easy-to-read instructional material and case studies for training managers, middle-level professionals, development workers and extension agents. A do-it-yourself manual, the book is based on the Commonwealth Secretariat model framework for an integrated approach to combat violence against women. It: . draws on the strengths of the Gender Management System . promotes an integrated approach to combat GBV . draws on experiences from workshops and consultations facilitated by the Commonwealth Secretariat in Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe . is a flexible tool that can be adapted to suit national and local situations
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| Small States: Economic Review and Basic Statistics, Volume 12
1359-7507
ISBN: 9780850928631
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:174
This unique annual collection of key economic and statistical data on the world’s small states – those with fewer than five million inhabitants – is an essential reference for economists, planners and policy-makers. The book contains fifty-four tables covering selected economic and social indicators culled from international and national sources and presents information unavailable elsewhere.
A detailed parallel commentary on trends in Commonwealth small states, looking at growth, employment, inflation and economic policy issues, permits a deeper understanding of developments behind the figures. The book also includes two topical articles, on the dynamics of growth and macroeconomic fluctuations of small states, by Dr Gordon Cordina of the University of Malta, and the crucial role of energy efficiency and renewable energy in small island developing states, by David Barrett.
Countries covered in the statistical tables:
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Barbados, Belize, Bhutan, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo Republic, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Fiji Islands, Gabon, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Iceland, Ireland, Jamaica, Kiribati, Kuwait, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Liberia, Luxembourg, Maldives, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Samoa, São Tomé and Principe, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Swailand, The Bahamas, The Gambia, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Vanuatu.
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| Spitting in the Wind
Lessons in Empowerment from the Caribbean
NGO Experiences From The Regions
ISBN: 9789768123893
Publisher:Commonwealth Foundation and Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:224
These Caribbean case studies explore empowerment through civil society action. Its title reflects an inherent contradiction that the very efforts being celebrated here may rebound in the faces of the activists who initiate them; yet these men and women struggle on, and sometimes their efforts take root. The stories straddle the Caribbean, reflecting individual and organisational experiences from Belize to Jamaica, the Windward Islands to Guyana.
They also reflect aspects of the region’s racial and cultural diversity, and point up some of its socio-economic challenges. In so doing, they show where Caribbean people share ways of thinking, rooted in common experiences, even while acknowledging different national contexts and different individual and organizational perspectives. Through this volume, the outcome of a Commonwealth Foundation initiative, the authors share their experiences with others, and adduce real and relevant lessons which may resonate with other civil society activists near and far. Published by Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica, in association with the Commonwealth Foundation.
£6.00
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| The Cotonou Agreement
A User's Guide
ISBN: 9780850927894
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:404
The ACP-EU Partnership agreement commonly referred to as the Cotonou Agreement brings together over 100 countries in an integrated trade, development assistance and political co-operation relationship. The agreement represents one of the most comprehensive partnership agreement in the world , concluded between groups of developing countries on the one hand and developed coutnries on the other.
The agreement consists of a basic framework of 100 articles supplemented by Annexes, Protocols, annexes to protocols, single and joint declarations integral to the legal text. This wealth of information makes the agreement both complex and difficult to follow. It is this complexity which has given rise to the production of this User's Guide to the Cotonou Agreement.
By way of a simple question and answer format , the guide simplifies the agreement making it more accessible to end users, who include, amongst others, policy makers, the private sector and other stakeholders, thereby making greater use of resources and enhancing the opportunities available under the agreement.
£18.99
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| Trade Facilitation
A Handbook for Trade Negotiators
ISBN: 9780850928556
Publisher:Commonwealth Secretariat
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:208
Trade facilitation has formed a part of the WTO work programme since 1996, though no significant progress has yet been made in launching negotiations, mainly due to the opposition of a number of developing countries. Following the failed Cancun meeting in 2003, WTO members formally agreed to commence negotiations on trade facilitation.
The main aim of the trade facilitation negotiations on is to clarify and improve the provisions of three GATT 1994 articles, on freedom of transit, on fees and formalities connected with importation and exportation, and on the publication and administration of trade regulations, with a view to expediting the movement, release and clearance of goods through customs.
The negotiations also aim at providing technical assistance to developing and least developed countries with a view to strengthening their technical capacities for the application of innovative techniques and methods in the clearance of goods, and for the gradual acceptance of the obligations and new rules that may be adopted in the Doha Round.
This book provides background information and identifies the points that may need further examination by the negotiating parties. It also contains suggestions on how the negotiating approaches adopted under other WTO Agreements (such as the Agreement on Customs Valuation, Rules of Origin, Technical Barriers to Trade and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures), could be taken into account while developing new rules in this area.
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| Women and Men in Partnership for Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Report of the Sierra Leone National Consultation, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 21–24 May 2001
ISBN: 9780850927443
Publisher:Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Sierra Leone in collaboration with Commonwealth Secretariat, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), The British Council, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Binding:Paperback
Language:English
Pagination:202
Following a decade of armed conflict that led to the virtual collapse of the country’s social, economic, legal and political fabric, the Sierra Leone National Consultation on Women and Men in Partnership for Post-Conflict Reconstruction, held in Freetown in May 2001, brought together 250 people from governmental and non-governmental organisations to discuss ways in which the war has impacted differently on women, children and men and how best to ensure gender equality in all reconstruction efforts.
The papers in this report examine the following issues from a gender perspective: . political and public decision-making . security and peace-building . legal reform . violence and other crimes against women and children . poverty, economic recovery and empowerment . health, HIV/AIDS and STIs . settlement of displaced persons and rehabilitation of ex-combatants . the role of young people in post-conflict reconstruction.
Published by Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Sierra Leone in collaboration with Commonwealth Secretariat, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), The British Council, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
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