Making Gender Equality a Reality: UNDP and Gender illustrates how UNDP China is working for the realization of gender equality and women’s empowerment. It provides an overview of UNDP China’s comprehensive gender mainstreaming strategy and provides a snapshot on the practices and experiences on gender mainstreaming and empowerment in UNDP China programmes. The pamphlet shows how UNDP China engages in specific interventions that address the most pressing issues that lead to the empowerment of women, reduction of their vulnerabilities, building their leadership potential, and protecting their human rights.

The Asia-Pacific Regional Human Development Report (APHDR) is an important resource and instrument to explore critical development concerns. The Report thus informs policies from a human development perspective, putting people at the centre of development debates. As a regional public good, the APHDR focuses on issues that are of common concern to several countries in the region, have sensitivities that are better addressed at a regional level, or have clear cross-border dimensions.

This report documents the findings of a gender review of national MDG reports and covers all the national reports from developing countries published up to December 2004. This includes 78 reports in English, French and Spanish – 22 reports from Africa, seven from the Arab region, 10 from the Asia-Pacific region, 17 from Central Europe and the CIS, and nine from Latin America. There has been no attempt at sampling - all the reports available upto December 2004 were scanned.

Integrating a gender perspective into the formulation, the implementation and monitoring process of China's future reforms is indispensable. In January 2002, "China's Accession to WTO: Challenges for Women," the first gender-focused WTO project in China was launched. This report presents the key findings of this project in the hope that gender issues will find greater attention as the administrative system and institutions cope with the impact of globalization on China's economy and society.