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Documents

The followings are the background documents for the High-level Meeting.

Final meeting reports

• Report of the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (.pdf)
• Strategies and recommendations to further implement the Beijing Platform for Action (.pdf)

Agenda item 4

• Overall review of the regional implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (Note by the Secretariat) (.pdf)
• The State of women and media (Isis International Manila) (.pdf)

Agenda item 5

1. Economic empowerment of women

• Trends in economic participation and poverty among women in the Asian and Pacific Region (Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nahru University, New Delhi, India) (.pdf)
• Surviving the Crisis: An analysis of the social and economic effects of the Asian crisis on women (Jeanne Frances I. Illo, Women's Studies Program of the Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University) (.pdf)

2. Rights-based approach to empowerment of women

• A rights-based approach to the empowerment of women (Savitri Goonesekere, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) (.pdf)
• The Beijing Platform for Action and recent trends in female migration in the Asia-Pacific Region (International Organization for Migration) (.pdf)

3. Political empowerment of women

• Political Empowerment of Women (Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics) (.pdf)
• Report on Regional Workshop Towards Women's Political Empowerment (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) (.pdf)

4. Strategies for empowerment of women
   • Capacity building for gender mainstreaming (Lorraine Corner, UNIFEM) (.pdf)
   • Building partnerships (Vanessa Griffen, Asia and Pacific Development Center) (.pdf)
   • Accountability, monitoring and evaluation (Patricia B. Licuanan, SEAWATCH) (.pdf)