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UNHCR Good Practices on Gender Equality Mainstreaming: A Practical Guide to Empowerment

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Premised on the assumption that gender roles and relations shape the process of empowerment, this guide provides practical examples of empowerment from case studies in Kosovo, Tanzania, Guatemala, Colombia, Guinea, Turkey and Algeria.

Five dimensions of women's empowerment are considered; access, conscientization, mobilization, control and gender equality mainstreaming.

Collectively, the Good Practices advanced aim to provide important lessons learned for current and future UNHCR initiatives with refugee, internally displaced and returnee populations that seek to promote gender equality.