This report provides insight into integrating cultural analysis in development programmes, especially in the critical areas of gender equity and equality and reproductive health and rights. The culmination of two years' work with UNFPA field offices, headquarters staff and technical advisers, the report examines culturally sensitive programming during the past decade in a number of countries where UNFPA operates- Brazil, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Islamic Republic of Iran, Uganda and Yemen.

This report documents a workshop organized to train Iraqi women leaders in managing NGOs, strengthening communications skills, and participating in conflict-resolution processes.

This tool is designed to be a resource for civil society organisations (CSOs) engaged in oversight of the security sector, as well as those CSOs that seek to play a more active role in this regard.

This toolkit is designed to provide policymakers and practitioners with a practical introduction to why gender issues are important in the security sector reform and what can be done to integrate them. It includes the following twelve chapters/tools: 1. Security Sector Reform and Gender; 2. Police Reform and Gender; 3. Defence Reform and Gender; 4. Justice Reform and Gender; 5. Penal Reform and Gender; 6. Border Management and Gender; 7. Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender; 8. National Security Policy-Making and Gender; 9. Civil Society Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender; 10. Private Military and Security Companies and Gender; 11. SSR Assessment, Monitoring and Evaluation and Gender; 12. Gender Training for Security Sector Personnel.