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African Centre for Gender, United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa
African Development Bank (AfDB)
All India Women’s Conference
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation
(BOBP-IGO)
Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation
Department of Women’s Affairs, Ministry of Social
Development, Sultanate of Oman
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
(GIZ) GmbH
Division for Gender Equality, United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO)
Institute of Sikh Studies (IOSS)
Islamic Development Bank
KADEM: Women and Democracy Association
MASHAV – Israel’s Agency for International Development
Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Department of
Development Policy
Ministry for Women, New Zealand
Ministry of Religious Affairs, Brunei Darussalam
Mongolian National Commission on Gender Equality
(NCGE)
Network of Rural Women Producers Trinidad and Tobago
(NRWPTT)
Penang Women’s Development Corporation (PWDC)
PROSPERA, Mexico
Service and Research Institute on Family and Children
(SERFAC)
State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs of
the Republic of Azerbaijan
Status of Women Canada, Government of Canada
Sultan Omar ’Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies,
Universiti Brunei Darussalam
UN Women
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for
Western Asia Centre for Women
Women’s Commission of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region
Acknowledgements
Compiled by: Sean Nicklin, Ben Cornwell
Edited by: Dr Jacqui Griffiths
Designed by: Libby Sidebotham
Project Manager: Stuart Fairbrother
Cover photo: Rinku Dagiwal, 18, belongs to the Nat caste. She is one of the beneficiaries of the bridge course being run at
the NFE centre. Rinku was in class five when she dropped out of school due to problems at home. But thanks to the bridge
course, she has now cleared class eight and made her teachers proud. Today, she dreams of becoming a teacher.
© UN Women/Shaista Chishty
Printed in the UK by: Gomer Press Ltd.
With thanks to all the authors listed in the contents section for their support in making
A Better World
possible.
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