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UN JOINT PROGRAMMES - Integrating gender issues in food security, agriculture and rural development

Year of publication 2010

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) These guidelines provide practical guidance to support programme and operations staff in UN Country Teams to integrate gender e quality concerns into Joint Programmes (JP) for food security, agriculture and rural development. The guidelines outline oppor tunities to incorporate gender into both the JP process (formulation, implementation and monitoring and evaluation) and project document. They include a general gender equality checklist as well as thematic checklists to mains tream gender in areas of cross-cutting importance for agriculture and rural devel opment. A list of useful resources is also provided.

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