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Sub-national and district management:
Basic values and principles

Gender and health

• Gender Equality and the Milennium Development Goals
  UNDP, UNIFEM, UNFPA, The World Bank, and the OECD/DAC, 2003
  MDGs, partnership, reducing poverty; a win for women, a win for all; targets and indicators
  (2 pages, pdf 28kb)
• Gender & Poverty In the Context of Human Development, Health, Education and the MDG’s
  Barbara Lopi, 2004, Southern African Regional Poverty Network, Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC)
  Gender situation in Africa; control of assets; engendering national budgets; health, HIV/AIDS and eductiaon; key issues
  (13 pages, pdf 208kb)
• Gender Mainstreaming in Health: The Possibilities of Involving District-level Field Workers
  2005, Healthlink Worldwide and Malaria Knowledge Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
  Key findings and recommendations;
  (2 pages; pdf 130kb)
• The Gender Guide for Health Communication Programmes, Center Publication No. 102.
  pdf, 502kb
  Faria Zaman and Carol Underwood, March 2003, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health / Center for Communication Programs
  Five steps for developing a health communication program: analysis, strategic design, message/materials development, pretesting and production, management, implementing, monitoring and evaluation; questions to identify and address gender issues
  (28 pages, pdf 491kb)
• Integrating Gender into HIV/AIDS Programmes
  Geeta Rao Gupta, Daniel Whelan and Keera Allendorf, 2003
  Gender and the epidemic; poverty and dependency; "gender sensitive" programmes; empowering; country examples
  (56 pages, pdf 258kb)
• Transforming Health Systems: Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health. A Training Curriculum for Health Programme Managers
  T.K. Sundari Ravindran (ed.), 2001, WHO/RHR/01.29
  The participatory approach; teaching modules; the social construction of gender; concepts and tools for gender analysis; gender based-inequalities mainstreaming gender; linking gender and health; determinants of health and illness; inequities in health; human rights collection and interpretation of data; analysing and influencing policy; health systems; tool for participants to evaluate the course
  (499 pages, pdf 2.4MB)
• WHO documents: Gender and Women's Health
• WHO website on Gender and Health
• Integrating poverty and gender into health programmes
  WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific A series of 9 modules for trainers and particpants (Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the documents and their links)
• How to Reduce Maternal Deaths: Rights and Responsibilities
  Deborah Thomas, 2005, UK Department for International Development
  Political support for maternal health; a rights perspective to strengthening health systems; women’s entitlement and access; state accountability for maternal health; rights and the MDGs
  (12 pages, pdf 422kb)