and work<strong>in</strong>g lives. To ensure juscebecomes a reality <strong>for</strong> all women, UNWomen calls on governments to repeallaws that discrim<strong>in</strong>ate aga<strong>in</strong>st women,and ensure that legislaon protectswomen from violence and <strong>in</strong>equality <strong>in</strong>the home and the workplace; support<strong>in</strong>novave jusce services, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>gone-stop shops, legal aid and specializedcourts, to ensure women can access thejusce to which they are entled; andput women on the frontl<strong>in</strong>e of juscedelivery as police, judges, legislators andacvists; and <strong>in</strong>vest <strong>in</strong> jusce systemsthat can respond to women’s needs.Women and Children Firstnyurl.com/3g8h2pn“Good Pracce Guide: CommunityMobilizaon through Women’s Groupsto Improve the Health of Mothers andBabies,” <strong>2011</strong>. The aim of the guide isto provide a case study of good pracce<strong>in</strong> work<strong>in</strong>g with women’s groups toaddress maternal and newborn healthand to share lessons learned from thisexperience. While the guide describesan approach used <strong>in</strong> rural communies<strong>in</strong> India and Bangladesh, this canbe successfully adapted to differentcontexts. The project worked throughwomen’s groups, us<strong>in</strong>g a parcipatorylearn<strong>in</strong>g and acon cycle, to mobilizecommunity acon to improve thehealth of mothers and babies. In India,the project resulted <strong>in</strong> a 45 percentreducon <strong>in</strong> newborn deaths and areducon <strong>in</strong> maternal deaths, as wellas a 57 percent reducon <strong>in</strong> moderatematernal depression. In Bangladesh,the project resulted <strong>in</strong> an <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong>uptake of health services. In both Indiaand Bangladesh, the project resulted <strong>in</strong>a significant improvement <strong>in</strong> hygienicdelivery pracces, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g use ofdelivery kits, and an <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> exclusivebreaseed<strong>in</strong>g.Women’s Edge Coalitionnyurl.com/3z4q96s“NAFTA and the FTAA: a <strong>Gender</strong> Analysisof Employment and Poverty Impacts <strong>in</strong>Agriculture,” by Marcel<strong>in</strong>e White, CarlosSalas and Sarah Gammage, 2003, 48 pp.This case study seeks to quanfy thedifferenal impact of trade agreementson Mexican women and men so thatthe lessons learned can <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>m newtrade agreements. It uses the TradeImpact Review (TIR) developed by theWomen’s Edge Coalion <strong>for</strong> their LookFIRST (Full Impact Review and Screen<strong>in</strong>gof Trade) campaign. This frameworkenables trade negoators, governmentsand others to <strong>for</strong>ecast the potenalbenefits and drawbacks of a tradeagreement be<strong>for</strong>e it is rafied. S<strong>in</strong>ce theNorth American Free Trade Agreement(NAFTA) was <strong>in</strong>troduced, the numberof female-headed households liv<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong> poverty <strong>in</strong> Mexico has <strong>in</strong>creased by50 percent. While the jobs created byNAFTA primarily went to women, theyare low-waged and <strong>in</strong>secure jobs, <strong>for</strong>example <strong>in</strong> the border export factories(maquiladoras). While offer<strong>in</strong>g womensome autonomy, they do not alleviatepoverty.Women <strong>in</strong> Development Europe(WIDE)nyurl.com/3h3jeqc“In<strong>for</strong>maon Sheet: <strong>Gender</strong> andTrade Indicators,” 2002, 4 pp.WIDE’s <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>maon sheet—aimed atgovernments, trade policy makers, theWorld Trade Organizaon and academicresearchers—is designed to assist ef<strong>for</strong>tsto measure and monitor the relaonshipbetween trade and gender. It outl<strong>in</strong>esthree sets of <strong>in</strong>dicators which can beapplied to an analysis of any trad<strong>in</strong>grelaonship between countries ortrade blocks. The first are situaonal<strong>in</strong>dicators, which describe the social andeconomic posion of women. Theseshould be ulized as a starng po<strong>in</strong>t<strong>for</strong> any gender analysis of trade. Thesecond <strong>in</strong>dicator is of polical will, whichmeasures the extent to which tradepolicy makers take gender concerns <strong>in</strong>toaccount, and to what extent they actually<strong>in</strong>clude gender equality measures <strong>in</strong>the trade agreements they negoatewith a trad<strong>in</strong>g partner. F<strong>in</strong>ally, there aredynamic <strong>in</strong>dicators <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g measuressuch as trad<strong>in</strong>g volumes as well as abreakdown of trade by sector, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>gagriculture and manufactur<strong>in</strong>g. Thesedynamic <strong>in</strong>dicators provide <strong>in</strong>sights <strong>in</strong>tothe l<strong>in</strong>ks between gender and tradeover the period that a trade agreementis operang, where, <strong>for</strong> <strong>in</strong>stance, thesituaon be<strong>for</strong>e an agreement could becompared with the situaon five yearsaer the start of a trade agreement.They there<strong>for</strong>e show to what extentwomen ga<strong>in</strong> or lose from <strong>in</strong>creasedtrade. The <strong>in</strong><strong>for</strong>maon sheet concludeswith a number of praccal uses <strong>for</strong> these<strong>in</strong>dicators, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g: to assess how wellgender policy co<strong>in</strong>cides or overlaps withtrade policy; to assess the genderedeffects of trade and the effect thattrade has on gender relaons; to assessthe need <strong>for</strong> gender-sensive policymeasures <strong>in</strong> trade agreements; to assessthe need <strong>for</strong> gender-sensive policymeasures to be <strong>in</strong>cluded <strong>in</strong> trade policy.The World Bank South Asia RegionHuman Development Unitnyurl.com/3ha6sp5“Empower<strong>in</strong>g Women: The Effect ofWomen’s Decision-Mak<strong>in</strong>g Poweron Reproducve Health ServicesUptake Evidence from Pakistan,” byXiaohui Hou and N<strong>in</strong>g Ma, <strong>2011</strong>, 20 pp.What correlaons are there betweenwomen’s autonomy and their uptakeof reproducve health services <strong>in</strong>Pakistan? This policy research work<strong>in</strong>gpaper suggests that women’s decisionmak<strong>in</strong>g power has a significant posiveimpact on services uptake, while<strong>in</strong>fluenal males’ decision mak<strong>in</strong>gpower has the opposite effect. Thisstudy f<strong>in</strong>ds that empower<strong>in</strong>g women(<strong>for</strong> example, improv<strong>in</strong>g their educaonand economic status) improves theirulizaon of maternity services. Italso f<strong>in</strong>ds that reproducve healthpolicy should target Pakistani malehousehold members <strong>in</strong>volved <strong>in</strong>mak<strong>in</strong>g such decisions so that they mayga<strong>in</strong> a greater understand<strong>in</strong>g of theimportance of maternity services. Data<strong>for</strong> this research was drawn from thePakistan Social and Liv<strong>in</strong>g StandardsMeasurement Survey.MONOGRAPHS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS11
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