| AfricaBib |
| AfricaBib consists of two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature (Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database) and African Women's literature (African Women's Database). It also provides a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa (Women Travelers, Explorers and Missionaries to Africa: 1763-1999: A Comprehensive English Language Bibliography). The databases are maintained by Davis Bullwinkle, Director, Institute for Economic Advancement (IEA) Research Library. |
| African Women. Guide to Internet Resources. |
| An annotated directory of information, on the internet, about women in Africa. Full text articles, women's organizations, bibliographies, discussion lists. Based at Stanford University, California. |
| Africawoman |
| Africawoman is a fully-wired women-led news and broadcasting service. The service currently operates in four countries - Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe - but will eventually include every African country. It is run by about 40 women journalists and activists. Africawoman's vision is driven by a monthly web-based newspaper that is distributed via the Internet to activists and community radio networks. It creates a distinctive African women's news agenda and enables news written by women to be accessed by rural women, using radio to by-pass the challenges of literacy and distribution. The project also involves training the women journalists in a monthly "virtual newsroom" to plan and write the next edition. Africawoman is funded by the UK Government's Department for International Development (DFID) and by the British Council. |
| afrol Women |
| afrol Women is an African Internet media, covering almost daily African gender news, background presentations and country gender profiles. The site also includes free portal services.
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| BRIDGE: Gender and Indicators Cutting Edge Pack |
| In July 2007, BRIDGE will publish 'Gender and Indicators' - the latest in a series of Cutting Edge Packs. What does a world without gender inequality look like? Realising this vision requires inspiring and mobilising social change. But what would indicate we are on the right track - and how do we know when we get there? The Gender and Indicators Cutting Edge Pack provides a comprehensive overview of gender and measurements of change with a focus on indicators, highlighting good practice from the grassroots to the international level, and making key recommendations.
The Pack explores issues such as:
Deciding what and how to measure - including selecting appropriate methods and methodologies;
Measuring the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming;
Measuring change in especially 'hard to measure' areas: poverty, empowerment, gender-based violence and conflict;
Monitoring and strengthening international measurement instruments and indicators, including widely recognised goals - such as the Millennium Development Goals - and indices - such as the United Nations Development Programme's Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM);
Developing and better utilising regional gender-sensitive approaches, indicators and statistics.
To maximize the reach and impact of the Pack, BRIDGE is trying to identify people/organisations who are most likely to need, use and value this resource. If you have any suggestions about who BRIDGE should send the Pack to - both gender and non-gender specialists – please send an e-mail to Elaine Mercer (e.mercer at ids.ac.uk) with their contact details.
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| COL: Identifying barriers to ICTs in education based on gender differences |
| The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and its network are continuing work in addressing gender barriers, such as those encountered by women, to the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for education and training, and especially for open and distance learning. From 1998 to 2001, COL convened four regional expert group meetings to identify barriers to information and communications technologies (ICTs) in education based on gender differences. Reports from these meetings are available online (Acrobat PDF format).
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| Commonwealth Women's Network |
| Established in September 1991, the Commonwealth Women's Network is a non-governmental pioneering body within the realm of the Commonwealth community and is aimed at improving the quality of life of women throughout the Commonwealth. The purpose of the network is to create and strengthen relationships among women in the Commonwealth, to create and strengthen links with policy-makers in the Commonwealth, and to create and strengthen links among women NGOs in the Commonwealth.
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| Dimitra Project: Rural Women and Development |
| Dimitra is an information and communication project which aims to highlight rural women's contribution to their community and their country. It is implemented by the Gender and Development Service (SDWW), of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - (FAO). The project is coordinated in Brussels, with support from Rome and Accra, and relies on the active cooperation of a large network of local partners in Africa and the Near East.
In the East African sub-region, the Dimitra project covers the five countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and Ethiopia. To coordinate the Dimitra project and its activities in the region, early in 2006, Dimitra established a partnership with Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET). As the regional focal point in the sub region, WOUGNET will coordinate Dimitra activities in Eastern Africa, establish local partnerships and collect, encode and disseminate information on NGOs, research institutes and information activities pertaining to rural women or rural development with a gender approach.
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| Femsud Consult |
| FemSud Consult was established to contribute to the fight against acute poverty, illiteracy, ignorance, and apathy on gender, politics and a general lack of development among the rural people especially women in Africa. The organisation facilitate training women, girls and men in agriculture, health care, SME (Small/Medium Enterprises), and management skills so that they can actively participate in developing their society. Femsud Consult is a private company registered early in 1999 in the Netherlands.
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| Gender & Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation |
| The Strengthening Gender & Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation (GWS Africa) project web site is the first ever site, wholly dedicated to the promotion and development of Gender and Women's Studies on the African continent. The African Gender Institute established www.gwsafrica.org in collaboration with the community of scholars currently engaged in gender studies all over the continent, and invite ongoing dialogue and networking.
In October 2002, GWS Africa launched the electronic journal - Feminist Africa (FA), http://www.feministafrica.org. Feminist Africa is a publication which has grown out of the African Gender Institute's many years of commitment to capacity-building, research, networking and teaching in an environment in which market-oriented approaches now threaten to undermine progressive African gender initiatives. FA provides a platform for cutting-edge, informative and provocative gender work attuned to African agendas. As the first journal on gender with a continental focus, Feminist Africa provides a forum for the publication and dissemination of high quality feminist scholarship African contexts. The journal promotes the incisive combination of intellectual rigour and political insight and accommodates contributions ranging from feature articles to short reports, interviews or journalistic writings. The emphasis is on generating African discourses on gendered implications of a range of African political, educational, cultural and historical concerns across the humanities and social sciences. |
| Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiatives (GRBI) |
| The Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiatives (GRBI) website is a collaborative effort between the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), The Commonwealth Secretariat and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC), aimed at supporting governments and civil society in analyzing national and local budgets from a gender perspective and applying this analysis to the formulation of gender-responsive budgets. The initiative strives to promote the global objectives and cross-regional information sharing through the formation and support of a network, further development of concepts, tools and training materials, global training of trainers, South-South exchanges, and collaboration with international and regional organizations.
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| Gender, Science and Technology Gateway |
| The Gender, Science and Technology Gateway is being relaunched, with a new look and more features. The Gateway is a portal to resources, organizations and programming around the gender dimensions of S&T for social development and policy. It is a web site of the Gender Advisory Board, UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development and is meant to promote understanding of these issues and serve as a knowledge map on research, programming, policy, and resources for policy makers, NGOs, agencies, and development agents.
In addition to sections on the gender and S&T dimensions of education, employment, S&T for social development (needs of society), local knowledge, ethics of technology and sex-disaggregated data in S&T, the Gateway provides links to region-specific resources, e- resources (newsletters and portals on related topics), United Nations programming and policy. Highlighted are new sections on Women in Science Organizations, and Guidelines and Toolkits for policy and programming.
The Gateway is hosted by Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT) and made possible with funding from The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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| Human Strategies for Human Rights |
| Human Strategies for Human Rights (HSHR) is a United States based non profit organization that provides grassroots NGOs with on-site organizational capacity building, personnel empowerment training and strategic guidance in the promotion and protection of human rights and through online human rights mentoring. Most of HSHR's work is targeted towards NGOs that work on women's political and economic empowerment and legal literacy. HSHR's working principles are to strengthen local groups by serving as a listener, provide guidance in critical thinking and offer technical and professional skills training that is tailored to the local environment within which each NGO works. HSHR's capacity building focuses on two key areas - sustainable organizational development and strengthening the NGO's thematic area of human rights work, for example women and micro enterprise development. |
| ICON |
| ICON is a socially responsible development organisation in Uganda that strives to shape individual citizens and local organisations that are productive, financially healthy, efficient and effective in all they do. ICON envisions a totally transformed, developed and violence free Africa led by a new breed of women leaders and young leaders. The mission is to fully unleash the visionary leadership potential of African women and young people through self-help, self-determination and self-employment.
The pillar of ICON's work is a Women and Young Leaders Network (WYLN) that aims to nurture generations of visionary leaders and citizens through the provision of tailored on-going mentorship and technical support to individual women leaders, young leaders and their organisations. Eligble members of this network are women leaders in any field, young people (children and young adults) and male leaders who are working with women and young people.
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| ILO Publications: Gender Issues and Women at Work |
| Established in 1919, and since 1946 a member of the United Nations Organization, the International Labour Organization has focused on workplace issues, actively seeking to create decent work for all - work which is freely chosen and performed in an environment of equity, security and human dignity. While focusing primarily on employment in the global economy, the ILO publications programme provides relevant research findings and practical solutions to workplace problems for workers and employers in developing, transition and industrial economies. ILO research contributes to enhancing public awareness of crucial labour and employment issues in subject areas such as Gender Issues and Women at Work, and Child Labour.
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| Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) |
| IGWG, established in 1997, is a network of NGOs, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Cooperating Agencies (CAs), and the Center for Population, Health and Nutrition (PHN) of the USAID. The IGWG promotes gender equity within PHN programs, in order to improve Reproductive Health/HIV/AIDS outcomes and foster sustainable development. |
| International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) |
| ICRW's mission is to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's equality and human rights, and contribute to the broader economic and social well-being. ICRW accomplishes this, in partnership with others, through research, capacity building, and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic, health, and social status in low- and middle-income countries.
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| JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies |
| JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies is an ejournal devoted to the promotion of the research and scholarship of African women to the global African community and friends of Africa. JENdA documents and responds to debates on women's history and studies in African social, cultural, political, and economic systems. It creates a forum for African women scholars, analysts and activists to participate on an equal footing with their contemporaries worldwide in debates, exchanges of ideas, and the creation and documentation of knowledge. JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies is published by Africa Resource Center, Inc, an organization that dedicates resources and staff to the provision of information on and about Africa.
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| Kampala Declaration: Prevent GBV in Africa |
| Over 30 leaders from non-governmental organizations and local authorities from the Horn, East and Southern Africa convened in Kampala, Uganda in September 2003 for the first Regional Dialogue, Preventing Gender-based Violence: Sharing Experiences, Breaking New Ground, organized by Raising Voices and UN-HABITAT's Safer Cities Programme. The Kampala Declaration was developed in which the participants call on civil society, local authorities, UN agencies, governments and funding agencies to increase attention, investment and action on preventing gender-based violence in Africa.
Read the Kampala Declaration and join in preventing gender-based violence by adding your name in support.
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| Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Uganda |
| This website includes information on the National Gender Policy and other gender oriented sectoral policies and plans, Uganda's Action Plan on Women, Facts and Figures on women and men in Uganda, Ministry publications, and programmes and projects in the Ministry.
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| Novib: Combating violence against women - Solutions and Best practices |
| This website presents the final results of the Novib/Oxfam project "Sharing Knowledge to Combat Violence Against Women (VAW)". Experiences from different countries, policy guidelines and definitions are among the highlights of the report, which will assist everyone involved or interested in combating VAW. The website is used by Novib, Oxfam and their partners to learn how they can most effectively contribute to the elimination of violence against women.
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| One World: Gender and Micro-finance resource page |
| One World has assembled a collection of research papers about gender and microfinance in the developing world. This web resource is a follow-up to the One World Action Conference in March 2002 Women's Empowerment or the Feminisation of Debt? Towards a New Agenda in African Micro-Finance. Papers from that conference are being posted as background for the November 2002 Micro Credit Summit in New York where gender and women's empowerment will be part of the mainstream agenda. The Gender and Micro-finance page is intended to act as an ongoing resource for those wishing to look at the issue of Micro-finance from a gender perspective. All the material collected for the Gender and African Micro-finance conference is collected here, as well as papers that focus on different geographical areas. There are also links to key papers in other websites.
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| Organisation for Women in Water, Electricity & Gas in Africa (OWWEGA) |
| Throughout history, women have taken charge of the collection, distribution and purification of energy and water resources to sustain their communities and families (sadly a difficult challenge still facing many rural women today). It is however positive to see that the number and profile of women in the African Electricity, Water and Gas industries are growing - as is evident as more and more women hold top positions in both the public and private utility sectors. The Organisation for Women in Water, Electricity & Gas in Africa (OWWEGA) was founded to celebrate the role of women in both industrialised and rural societies.
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| Raising Voices: Gender Based Violence Field Review |
| Raising Voices and UN-Habitat are undertaking a field review of organizations and institutions working to prevent gender-based violence (GBV) in East and Southern Africa. The aim is to create networks and alliances between those working to prevent GBV through conferences and partnerships and to produce a publication that highlights successful approaches to preventing GBV in the region. All NGOs, government agencies, local authorities and other groups working on the prevention of gender-based violence are warmly invited to share their experiences. For further information contact
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| SID-WID Network |
| The Society for International Development - Women in Development (SID-WID) Network provides a space for women and men working on gender to strategize together for social justice within the international development arena. SID-WID was first born in 1976 and over the decades the SID-WID network has promoted gender justice through a variety of programmes and activities through out the world. In the last five years, the focus of SID-WID has been on reproductive health, globalization/economic and social justice, information and communication technologies and gender policy. Using the opportunity created by SID's on-going dialogues at different international and national events in the last decade, as well as the SID journal Development (which regularly features gender issues), SID-WID members have been involved in the on-going struggle to bring about gender justice.
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| Siyanda - Mainstreaming Gender |
| Siyanda is an on-line database of select gender and development materials from around the world. Siyanda aims to assist busy gender practitioners with locating essential gender mainstreaming resources, quickly and easily. It is also an interactive space for practitioners, policymakers and academics to share ideas, experiences and resources for mainstreaming gender in development. Siyanda is maintained by BRIDGE - Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. |
| Telecenters and the Gender Dimension: An Examination of How Engendered Telecenters are Diffused in Africa |
| Telecenters have become an important component to development programs that seek to narrow the digital and knowledge divides that exist throughout the world. Despite the proliferation of telecenters throughout Africa, women continue to be cut off from essential info-communication resources that could improve their lives. Kelby Johnson's thesis examines the relationship between gender differences, telecenter design and women's accessibility to information and communication technologies (ICTs). By examining how these elements interact in the context of the diffusion model, the thesis suggests that the incorporation of the gender dimension into telecenter designs can enhance the diffusion of engendered telecenters, thereby increasing women's access to ICTs and improving their ability to contribute to the evolution of Africa's information society.
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| The World's Women Online! |
| A collection of art by 900 women from 62 countries including African nations. The site was originally presented at The United Nations World Conference on Women, Beijing China, 1995. We are looking for more professional women artists from African countries to join the collection entitled "The World's Women On-Line!" For more information, contact Muriel Magenta.
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| United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI) |
| The Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI) was created on 1 March 1997. The Office's main objective is to promote and strengthen the effective implementation of the Millennium Declaration, the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) held in Beijing in 1995 and the Outcome Document of the special session of the General Assembly on Beijing+5.
OSAGI's website includes a section on gender mainstreaming, providing links to concepts and definitions, tools to support gender mainstreaming and good practice examples. Website contents include: Concepts and definitions; Intergovernmental mandates; Roles and responsibilities; Competence development; Tools to support gender mainstreaming; Monitoring and evaluation; Good practice examples; Regional symposia; Milestones; Statements and papers; and Interagency collaboration.
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| University of the Philippines Center for Women's Studies |
| The Center for Women's Studies is a system-wide unit under the Office of the President of the University of the Philippines. It coordinates the Women's/Gender Studies programs and some service facilities (i.e. crisis counseling and Kalinga Day Care) of the seven campuses in Manila, Diliman, Baguio, Los Baños, the Visayas, Open University and Mindanao.
The Center was established in December 1989 to encourage and strengthen teaching, research extension and advocacy on and for women in the university. It has vigorously implemented interconnected programs of research and publications, outreach and services, training, curriculum development and networking following its national commitment and women's global agenda. In the last twelve years, the Center has conducted several studies, notably, feminist research methodologies, women's health, reproductive health, the nature and extent of gender violence in the family, women and the environment, intergenerational transmission of feminist values, as well as gender and globalization.
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| ViVa Web Database |
| The ViVa Web Database is a current bibliography of periodical articles about women's and gender history. In addition to African history titles, we select articles from 146 European, American, and Indian journals. Today, the ViVa database contains bibliographic records describing more than 6,500 articles published between 1975 and 2001 in historical and women's studies journals. The ViVa Web Database is maintained by the International Institute of Social History.
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| WINK: Ideas on working with girls - free CD available |
| Women, Ink., a project of the International Women’s Tribune Centre (IWTC), has compiled a resource collection of games, training manuals, workshop guides etc. for teachers, trainers and development workers who are working for and with girls. Released at the 51st Commission on the Status of Women, the collection includes some 31 resources on various subjects including empowerment, HIV/AIDS, sexuality and reproductive health, violence against women, racism, self-esteem and leadership development.
The full resource collection is available on the IWTC website or on a CD. The CD is free and there will be no postage charge for organizations and individuals who request a copy from the Global South. North-based groups or individuals will be charged a $10 shipping and handling fee. Write to
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| Women Waging Peace |
| Women Waging Peace, a multiyear collaborative venture of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, connects women addressing conflicts worldwide. The initiative breaks new ground by recognizing the essential role and contribution of women in preventing violent conflict, stopping war, and sustaining peace in fragile areas around the world. Waging brings together women from diverse areas of conflict around the world to share peace building strategies, sharpen skills, and shape public policy.
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| Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children |
| The Women's Commission is an expert resource and advocacy organization that monitors the care and protection of refugee women and children. It speaks out on issues of concern to refugee and displaced women, children and adolescents, who have a critical perspective in bringing about change but often do not have access to governments and policy makers. It also provides opportunities for refugee women and youth to speak for themselves through briefings, testimony, participation in field assessments and international conferences. The Women's Commission was founded in 1989 under the auspices of the International Rescue Committee - a non-profit, non-sectarian, voluntary agency providing assistance to refugees around the world.
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| Women's Funding Network (WFN) |
| Founded in 1985 and located in the United States, the Women's Funding Network is an international partnership of more than 90 women and girls' funds and philanthropic organizations. Committed to changing society by improving the status of women and girls locally, nationally, and internationally, Women's Funding Network works to strengthen and empower member funds.
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| Women's History Virtual Library |
| The main purpose of the Women's History Virtual Library is to list women's history institutions and organizations, locate archival and library collections, and provide links to Internet resources on women's history. In addition, also included are a list of women's studies journals and a few comprehensive link collections useful as a starting point for searching the Internet for women's studies in general. The Women's History Virtual Library is maintained by the International Institute of Social History.
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| Women's International Net (WIN) Magazine |
| The WIN Magazine is a free international online magazine for women, publishing articles by new as well as experienced writers from all over the world on the lives of women in different countries. |
| Women's Issues in Third World Countries at About.com |
| Women's Issues in Third World Countries speciality area of About.com features a huge library of Women's Issues oriented Web links, divided into a couple of dozen categories (statistics, terms, issues, women's culture, information by country and more) and updated weekly. Plus there's a new feature article every two weeks on issues related to the advancement of women in society, along with a 24-hour chat room and bulletin board.
The Women's Issues section is overseen by Cecil Marie Cancel whose area of expertise is Women's Issues and Socio-political Issues around the world. Since 1996, Ms. Cancel has had a site on the About.com network solely devoted to Women's Issues in Third World Countries.
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| Women's Studies Online Resources |
| Women's Studies Online Resources is a guide to information-rich, high-quality web sites focusing on women's studies or women's issues; women- or gender-related e-mail lists; women's studies files from the WMST-L File Collection (an international electronic forum for people involved in Women's Studies as teachers, researchers, librarians, and/or program administrators); links to women's studies programs around the world and to the Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT); financial aid for women; updates to Internet Resources on Women; and more. The guide is maintained by UMBC Center for Women and Information Technology (CWIT). |
| Women, Ink. |
| Women, Ink. has just released its latest catalogue of books and training resources on women and development. Featuring over 70 new books from women's organizations and mainstream university and small presses worldwide, this catalogue is a "must have" for academics, activists and development practitioners who want to keep current on new thinking in the field of women, gender and development.
In keeping with its strong commitment to locate and promote books by groups and small presses in the Global South, this catalogue presents the work of several South-based organizations including Asia-Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (Thailand), International Women’s Rights Action Watch – Asia-Pacific (Malaysia), Women Unlimited (India), Genderlinks (South Africa) and the Institute for Global Dialogue (South Africa). Besides its newest acquisitions, the Women, Ink. collection includes some 150 other cutting-edge books in categories like Conflict & Peace Processes, Training, Economics & Globalization, Education, Culture & Religion, Gender & Development, Human Rights, Law & Violence Against Women, Empowerment and Movement Building. Information about all our publications are available online at www.womenink.org
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