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The media plays a crucial role in ensuring that elections are conducted fairly, and are seen to be credible.

Horticultural Chain Management for Eastern and Southern Africa is a two-volume work designed to help trainers develop suitable materials to assist small farmers and producers to supply high quality horticultural produce for sale.This Practical Manual complements the theoretical manual and provides the trainer with simple practical tasks that reinforce and enhance comprehension of theoretical training.

It is now generally recognised that gender equality is essential for sustained economic growth and for democracy, peace and security.

Human Rights in the Commonwealth presents a comprehensive survey of the state of human rights, as measured by each country’s formal engagement with the main international standards and norms, across the fifty-three member countries of the association.

Studies on gendersensitive budgeting have concentrated on the expenditure side of government budgets.

Gender responsive budgeting is a key instrument to track how governments are investing in advancing gender equality and equity.

Civil Paths to Peace contains the analyses and findings of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, established in response to the 2005 request of Commonwealth Heads of Government for the Commonwealth Secretary-General to ‘explore initiatives to promote mutual understanding and respect among all faiths and communities in the Commonwealth.’This report focuses particularly on the issues of terrorism, extremism, conflict and violence, which are much in ascendancy and afflict Commonwealth countries as well as the rest of the world.It argues that cultivating respect and understanding is both important in itself and consequential in reducing violence and terrorism.

The Commonwealth at the Summit: Volume 3 contains the full text of declarations, statements and communiqués issued by Commonwealth Heads of Government between 1997 and 2005.

This is the first Commonwealth-wide comparative study of national human rights institutions (NHRIs), and is designed to help everyone interested in establishing and developing NHRIs to improve their effectiveness.The study looks at the international framework for the protection of human rights, and the historical and political background to the establishment of NHRIs and ombudsman offices.

The links between gender, trade and development are increasingly being recognised.

Gender disparity in education has usually been experienced as disadvantaging girls.

This reference book for Gender Ministers provides a snapshot account of the Commonwealth's achievements in promoting gender equality and records the advances made by women from 1995-2005.

The purpose of this book is to contribute to current policymaking, programme planning and implementation on gender and human rights.

This title was commissioned by the Commonwealth Secretariat as part of its commitment to integrate gender concerns into economic policy.

HIV/AIDS is a development issue - affecting all sectors of society - economic and social development, education, public services, food security, to name a few.

The social dimension of trade policy and trade liberalization is now a common topic in many official trade fora.

This book explores the changes and developments which have affected education within the Commonwealth over the years.

This title is one of a new series of manuals on gender mainstreaming in critical development issues.

A gender responsive budget (GRB) is one which takes into consideration the effect of government revenue and expenditure policies on both women and men.

Science and technology, and science and technology education, play a pivotal role in the development of a country’s economy, environment, social relations and other sectors.

Globalisation and trade liberalisation are posing a number of challenges – as well as creating new opportunities – for the many women entrepreneurs throughout the Commonwealth.

Gender Budgets Make More Cents documents ‘good practice’ in gender budget work from across the globe.

This is one of the sectoral guides that are part of the Gender Management System (GMS) resource kit, a series of publications presenting GMS.