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A Users' Guide to Measuring Local Governance
This Guide was preared by Alexandra Wilde, Shipra Narang, Marie Laberge and Luisa Moretto UNDP Oslo, 2009.
Gender in Local Government A Sourcebook for Trainers
This manual published by United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) in 2008 is designed to assist training institutions in mainstreaming gender concerns in local government capacity-building and in training related to human settlements as conducted by Habitat Agenda partners.The Sourceb
Gender in Local Government: a Sourcebook for Trainers (by UN-Habitat)
The sourcebook for Trainers was published by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) - 2008.
Gender-Responsive Budgeting through the CBMS Lens
The paper suggests how the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS), developed and implemented in 14 countries over the last ten years with financial support from the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC), can be used to facilitate gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) at the local l
Local Governance and Decentralization: Programme Experiences and Views from the Field
This publication results from widespread participation in a UNDP network discussion entitled Towards a "Local Governance and Development Agenda: Lessons and Challenges".
Local Level Gender Responsive Budgets: Tools for Gendered Research and Analysis
The purpose of this paper, prepared by Raman Sohal Research Officer, International Development Research Centre, June 2005, is to present an overview of the existing and potential approaches and tools for identifying gender gaps at the local level.
Realizing Their Needs: Women's Access to Public Services in Sector Decentralization
Since 2004, 13 research projects supported in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America by the Women's Rights and Citizenship program of Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) have been exploring exactly how decentralization affects women's access to services, resources, a
Women Gaining Voice: Political Representation and Participation in Decentralized Systems IDRC Brief
Decentralization has sometimes been presented as a magic bullet for both development and democracy.
Technical Guidance Note

Integrated national financing frameworks (INFFs) were first introduced in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda to support increased alignment of financing from all sources with national sustainable develop

The State of the Field of Gender Lens Investing

This report (2015) tells the history of the field of gender lens investing over the last five years and outlines a roadmap to the future, defining the critical areas of focus for resources and attention.