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| 1. | Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 30th July 2008 |
| Title | Malawi Gender Profile |
| Author | African News Agency (Afrol) |
| Document Type | Gender Country Profile |
| Publication Date | January 2008 |
| Summary | This Malawi gender profile provides data and analysis on the situation of women in Malawi. |
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| 2. | Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 30th July 2008 |
| Title | Assessment of Equity in the Uptake of Anti-retrovirals in Malawi |
| Author | Muula, A and Kataika, E |
| Document Type | Research |
| Publication Date | April 2008 |
| Summary | This study assesses equity in the uptake of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi in 2005 according to age, gender and income levels. |
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| 3. | Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 30th July 2008 |
| Title | Gender Sensitive Educational Policy and Practice: the Case of Malawi |
| Author | Maluwa-Banda, D. |
| Document Type | Research |
| Publication Date | January 2003 |
| Summary | What progress has been made towards ensuring that education in Malawi is gender sensitive? This paper provides an update on Malawian education ministry's efforts to address gender imbalances and inequity in the education system at all levels |
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| 4. | Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 30th July 2008 |
| Title | Gender Assessment for Malawi |
| Author | Mathiassen, A., et. al. |
| Document Type | Gender Country Profile |
| Publication Date | January 2007 |
| Summary | This report highlights gender disparities in Malawi and makes suggestions on how to improve the situation for women. It focuses on six key areas: education, work and employment, agriculture, female-headed households, violence and HIV/AIDS |
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| 5. | Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 30th July 2008 |
| Title | Mainstreaming Gender in HIV/AIDS Programs: Ongoing Challenges and New Opportunities in Malawi |
| Author | Tiessen, R. |
| Document Type | Research |
| Publication Date | January 2005 |
| Summary | If work on prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission in Malawi does not mainstream a gender approach, it is unlikely to achieve maximum impacts. |
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| 6. | Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 30th July 2008 |
| Title | Land Policy Reform: the Role of Land Rights and Women’s Land Rights in Malawi |
| Author | Holden, S., Kaarhus, R.and Lunduka, R. |
| Document Type | Report |
| Publication Date | January 2005 |
| Summary | This report asks how new land reforms in Malawi may affect women's land rights in a situation of increasing scarcity and competition for land. |
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| 7. | Date Added to Site: Wednesday, 28th May 2003 |
| Title | Failing Women, Sustaining Poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) |
| Author | Whitehead, A. |
| Document Type | Case Study |
| Publication Date | May 2003 |
| Summary | PRSP processes from Tanzania, Bolivia, Malawi and Yemen fail to address gender in a coherent and consistent way. |
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| 8. | Date Added to Site: Friday, 19th May 2006 |
| Title | Culture Matters. Working with Communities and Faith-Based Organisations: Case Studies from Country Programmes |
| Author | United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) |
| Document Type | Report |
| Publication Date | January 2004 |
| Summary | This report is based on two years of work with UNFPA staff examining culturally sensitive programming approaches in nine countries. |
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| 9. | Date Added to Site: Monday, 9th August 2004 |
| Title | Development of a Rights Based Monitoring Tool for CARE Malawi |
| Author | Goulden, J. and Glyde, S. |
| Document Type | Tool |
| Publication Date | March 2004 |
| Summary | This report documents the week-long process CARE undertook to design and test an appropriate community-based tool to monitor levels of discrimination. |
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| 10. | Date Added to Site: Tuesday, 26th June 2007 |
| Title | An Introduction to Gender Audit Methodology: its Design and Implementation in DFID Malawi |
| Author | Moser, C. |
| Document Type | Background Document |
| Publication Date | May 2005 |
| Summary | This background paper outlines the methodology used during an audit of the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) gender equality and mainstreaming work in Malawi. |
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| 11. | Date Added to Site: Sunday, 1st May 2005 |
| Title | Engendering the Bureaucracy? Challenges and Opportunities for Mainstreaming Gender in Ministries of Health under Sector-wide Approaches |
| Author | Theobald, S., Tolhurst, R., Elsey, H. and Standing, H. |
| Document Type | Research |
| Publication Date | May 2005 |
| Summary | The impetus for and process of gender mainstreaming in Sector-wide Approaches (SWAps) in the Ministries of Health in Uganda, Ghana, Malawi and Mozambique are explored in this Health, Policy and Planning Journal article. |
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| 12. | Date Added to Site: Tuesday, 31st July 2007 |
| Title | Violence and Abuse against Women with Disabilities in Malawi |
| Author | Hoem Kvam, M. and Hellum Braathen, S. |
| Document Type | Research |
| Publication Date | November 2006 |
| Summary | This research project studies the nature of abuse and neglect of women with disabilities in Malawi. |
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| 13. | Date Added to Site: Friday, 26th January 2007 |
| Title | Quantitative Research Instrument to Measure School-Related Gender-Based Violence |
| Author | DevTech Systems, Inc & Centre for Educational Research and Training |
| Document Type | Tool |
| Publication Date | December 2006 |
| Summary | This toolkit presents instruments used by the USAID funded Safe Schools Programme to assess the level and impact of gender-based violence in schools. |
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| 14. | Date Added to Site: Tuesday, 29th April 2008 |
| Title | Metaphors We Love By: Conceptualizations of Sex among Young People in Malawi |
| Author | Undie, C., Crichton, J. and Zulu, E. |
| Document Type | Research |
| Publication Date | December 2007 |
| Summary | How do young people in Malawi conceptualise sexuality and sexual relations, and on what basis do they understand risks involved and make behavioural decisions? |
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| 15. | Date Added to Site: Monday, 31st March 2008 |
| Title | The Safe Schools Program: a Qualitative Study To Examine School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Malawi |
| Author | DevTech Systems, Inc |
| Document Type | Research |
| Publication Date | January 2008 |
| Summary | What can participatory learning and action (PLA) research conducted in Malawi learn about how to help raise awareness, involvement, and accountability around school-related gender-based violence at national, institutional, community and individual levels? |
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| 16. | Date Added to Site: Friday, 1st August 2008 |
| Title | Website: Gender, Biodiversity and Knowledge Systems (in English and Portuguese) |
| Author | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) |
| Document Type | Tool |
| Publication Date | January 2008 |
| Summary | This website presents the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations LinKS Project, which explored the linkages between the crucial issues of local knowledge systems, gender roles and relationships, food provision, and the conservation and management of agrobiodiversity |
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| 17. | Date Added to Site: Friday, 1st August 2008 |
| Title | Memory Checks for Programme and Project Design: Household Food Security and Gender (in English, French and Spanish) |
| Author | International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) |
| Document Type | Tool |
| Publication Date | January 1999 |
| Summary | This so-called 'memory check' is part of a series designed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to accompany project designers and implementers to remind them of the ways in which household food security and gender issues should be given priority in designing projects and programmes. |
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| 18. | Date Added to Site: Friday, 1st August 2008 |
| Title | Building on Gender, Agrobiodiversity and Local Knowledge - a Training Manual |
| Author | The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) |
| Document Type | Tool |
| Publication Date | January 2005 |
| Summary | What are the linkages between local knowledge systems, gender roles and relationships, the conservation and management of agrobiodiversity, plant and animal genetic resources, and food security? This training manual aims to promote a holistic understanding of these components. |
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| 19. | Date Added to Site: Friday, 1st August 2008 |
| Title | Transcending Boundaries to Improve the Food Security of HIV-affected Households in Rural Uganda: A Case Study |
| Author | Coon,K., et al |
| Document Type | Case Study |
| Publication Date | January 2007 |
| Summary | Realising food security for all is a complex task that requires attention to agricultural, nutritional, gender, and technological issues, as illustrated by this case study describing the experience of a partnership project in Uganda. |
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| 20. | Date Added to Site: Friday, 30th May 2008 |
| Title | Biopolitics, Climate Change and Water Security: Impact Vulnerability and Adaptation Issues for Women |
| Author | Tandon, N. |
| Document Type | Report |
| Publication Date | January 2007 |
| Summary | This article, which examines how climate change will impact on water security, argues that it is critical for women to have the necessary information, tools and resources to plan and take decisions around water security. |
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