Report / White Paper

This report highlights key features of the approaches used in Indonesia to ensure women’s voice in community-driven development (CDD) projects. It focuses particularly on the Kecamatan Development Projects (KDP) and the Water and Sanitation for Low Income Communities Projects (WSLIC).

This report describes the efforts of the World Bank to achieve the goals set forth in the Beijing Platform for Action.

This review focuses on two of the most common types of violence against women: physical intimate partner violence and sexual violence by any perpetrator. It provides definitions, recent statistics, health consequences, costs, and risk factors relating to gender-based violence.

This report describes the processes and challenges faced by the Central Asian countries moving towards creating gender equality in governance.

This paper highlights the importance of conducting gender audits of national budgets. It describes the concept of gender audits, provides a list of questions to guide a gender audit, and examines the situation of women with respect to the economy.

This report discusses the role of women in peacekeeping forces and peacemaking operations.

This report is an account of the Fifth South Asia Regional Ministerial Meeting, "Celebrating Beijing Plus Ten.” It provides an overview of the presentations, discussions and recommendations given at the meeting; contains the consensus document "Islamabad Declaration: Review and Future Action," a

This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse its effects cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights.

This report analyzes the current situation in Russia with regard to different forms of gender inequality. It identifies key policy areas towards achievement of the third Millennium Development Goal, with respect to the specific Russian context.