Gender and Development e -Brief / Issue 54
2nd Half of January, 2007
IN THIS ISSUE
CONFERENCES & OPPORTUNITIES
Women's eNews
Promoting Women's Legal Rights Internationally - Discussion, WashingtonDC
NEWS
Victory for Women in Turkey: New Penal Code Recognizes Women's Bodily Integrity, Sexual Rights
Aurora Launches International Women's Day Website
REPORTS & BOOKS & ARTICLES
GENDER
GENDER & TRADE
Gender and Economic Reforms
GENDER & DEVELOPMENT
Accountability to the World's Women: Progress of South Asian Women 2005
Women and Poverty
Why Gender Action No Longer Engages in PRSPs
The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development
IRAQ: Haifa Waleed - "I prefer to be illiterate than to die"
Landless women, hopeless women: Gender, land and decentralization in Niger
GENDER & HEALTH
Fertility Change in Egypt: From Second to Third Birth
GENDER RIGHTS
Council of Europe Campaign to combat violence against women, including Domestic Violence
Gender, Sexuality and the Criminal Laws in the Middle East and North Africa: A Comparative Study
Creating Gender: The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy
The Global Gender Gap Report 2006
GENDER & ICT
Engendering ICT for Development and the Role of Women in ICT-based Knowledge Economy
The Impact of IT and Globalization on Women's Work
ECONOMY & TRADE
Buy fair: a guide to the public purchasing of Fair Trade products
HEALTH
Hunger 2007: Healthy Food, Farms & Families
Health Promotion Practice: Building Empowered Communities by Glenn Laverack
RESOURCES & SOURCE BOOKS
TRAINING MANUALS
Group approach to poverty reduction
Shedding abuse: a course for men who use domestic violence
NGO PROFILE
The Heinrich Böll Foundation
The Fares Foundation
Grameen Foundation - The Arab World (Middle East/North Africa)
Ajialcom, Morocco Empowering Youth through Technology
The Department of Gender, Women and Health (GWH)
Arab Women Organization of Jordan ( AWO)
Women Empowerment and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh
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CONFERENCES & OPPORTUNITIES
Women's eNews
Women's eNews editors seek out freelance writers from around the world to write on every topic--politics, religion, economics, health, science, education, sports, legislation--and commission them to write 800-word news articles for distribution each...
Promoting Women's Legal Rights Internationally - Discussion, WashingtonDC
The Chemonics Women in Development Unit and the GeorgetownLawSchool’s International Women's Human Rights Clinic Present: Promoting Women’s Legal Rights Internationally. Monday, January 29, 2007, 3:30-5pm - Reception to follow. Chemonics...
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NEWS
Victory for Women in Turkey:New Penal Code Recognizes Women's Bodily Integrity, Sexual Rights
Advocates for women's rights in Turkey achieved a great victory on September 26, 2004 when the Turkish parliament approved a major reform of the Penal Code including the adoption of more than 30 amendments that safeguard women's individual rights, sexual autonomy ...
Aurora Launches International Women's Day Website
International Women's Day has grown to become a global day of recognition and celebration across developed and developing countries alike. For decades, IWD has grown from strength to strength annually. For many years the United Nations has held an...
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REPORTS & BOOKS & ARTICLES
GENDER
GENDER & TRADE
Gender and Economic Reforms
Economic policy reforms in the form of Structural Adjustment Loans or Programs (SALs or SAPs) are large IFI investments that require countries to restructure their economies. SAPs require painful restructuring of poor country economies. The common...
GENDER & DEVELOPMENT
Accountability to the World's Women: Progress of South Asian Women 2005
The Report presents a snapshot of the situation of women in South Asia and an overview of the processes that have been at work in South Asia, both to promote the advancement of women and to identify gaps between the years 2000 -2005.
Women and Poverty
This is the 2nd Chapter of the Accountability to the World’s Women: Progress of South Asian Women 2005 Report. The study was sponsored by UNIFEM to see the progress of women in various dimensions ten years after the Beijing Conference that was held...
Why Gender Action No Longer Engages in PRSPs
Gender Action no longer directly engages in International Financial Institution-driven Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), national strategies written by countries to meet World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) specifications.... for more information:
The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development
This book is an attempt to bring the gender and development debate full circle - from a much-needed focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender framework that considers gender as a system that affects both women and men.
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IRAQ: Haifa Waleed - "I prefer to be illiterate than to die"
"I am 10 years old but I have not been to school for the past three years because I'm scared of the killings taking place in Iraq. Many of my friends have either been kidnapped or killed.
Landless women, hopeless women: Gender, land and decentralization in Niger
This paper is a summary of a case study on gender, land and decentralization. It addresses how women in rural areas of Niger deal with pressure on land within changing agricultural production systems. A separate focus is on women's land rights, and the strategies they use to capitalize on these rights.
GENDER & HEALTH
Fertility Change in Egypt: From Second to Third Birth
"This work focuses on Egypt, a country that notwithstanding its advanced stage of socio-demographic transition has shown near stagnation in the reduction of fertility levels in the last decade. The progression from second to third birth is a crucial...for more info:
GENDER RIGHTS
Council of Europe Campaign to combat violence against women, including Domestic Violence
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities is organizing the local and regional strand of the Council of Europe campaign ?Stop domestic violence against women?, involving such action as the mobilisation of local and municipal elected...
Gender, Sexuality and the Criminal Laws in the Middle East and North Africa: A Comparative Study
This study issued by Dr. Sherifa Zuhur and published by Women for Women's Human Rights-New Ways, February 2005, examines the common aspects of criminal laws in the Middle East and North Africa related to sexuality and provides a historical ... for more info:
Creating Gender: The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy
Seldom do we notice, let alone explicitly acknowledge, that public policies set distinct parameters for gender. But as Creating Gender compellingly demonstrates, in reality governments do use policy, to legitimize and support some gender-based behaviors, while undermining others.
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The Global Gender Gap Report 2006
The report measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of inequality between men and women:
1) Economic participation and opportunity – outcomes on salaries, participation levels and access to high-skilled employment
2) Educational attainment – outcomes on access to basic and higher level education
3) Political empowerment – outcomes on representation in decision-making structures
4) Health and survival – outcomes on life expectancy and sex ratio
The report and individual country profiles are available free of charge online at
GENDER & ICT
Engendering ICT for Development and the Role of Women in ICT-based Knowledge Economy
This Back to Office Report was submitted by Samia Melhem, Senior Operations Officer working at the World Bank Group. An international meeting on Re-Engineering Development: Engendering ICTs was sponsored by UNESCO; the Center for Women and...
The Impact of IT and Globalization on Women's Work
From Gender, Information Technology and Developing Countries: An Analytical Study by Nancy Hafkin and Nancy Taggart: " While globalization has significantly impacted women's IT work in developing countries, in general it has not changed gender divisions of labor .. More info ration at:
ECONOMY & TRADE
Buy fair: a guide to the public purchasing of Fair Trade products
This short handbook aims to provide clear and simple advice for public authorities wishing to purchase Fair Trade products. The guide argues that public authorities have key role in promoting Fair Trade.
HEALTH
Hunger 2007: Healthy Food, Farms & Families
Every year, the Bread for the World Institute (BFWI) publishes an annual report on the state of world hunger, the hunger report. The 2007 Report is titled Hunger 2007: Healthy Food, Farms & Families The 2007 Hunger Report focuses on the upcoming farm..
Health Promotion Practice: Building Empowered Communities by Glenn Laverack
This book explains theoretical principles and practical approaches that have been used by health promoters to intentionally build and evaluate empowerment. It provides a special focus on communities and details field experiences from the United Kingdom, Asia, North America, the Pacific region and Africa.
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RESOURCES & TRIAINING MATERIALS
TRAINING MANUALS
Group approach to poverty reduction
Guidelines on group formation and management
Shedding abuse: a course for men who use domestic violence
This manual outlines steps and materials for running a group course for men prone to the use of domestic violence. The course is intended to assist men in taking responsibility for domestic violence and helping them change their behaviour. The manual contains materials to carry out such courses and provides examples of good practice from past experiences.
NGO PROFILE
The Heinrich Böll Foundation
The Heinrich Böll Foundation, affiliated with the Green Party and headquartered in the Hackesche Höfe in the heart of Berlin, is a legally independent political foundation working in the spirit of intellectual openness. It was founded in 1997
For more info: kindly check the following link :
The Fares Foundation
The Fares Foundation is a private, non-profit institution and was founded by Issam M. Fares in order to organize his donations and contributions and ensure their continuity. The Foundation is active in the fields of human and social development in...
Grameen Foundation - The Arab World (Middle East/North Africa)
Grameen Foundation’s goal in the Middle East and North Africa is to combat poverty by helping microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the region collectively reach one million new borrowers by 2011. In collaboration with the Abdul Latif Jameel Group… for more info:
Ajialcom, Morocco Empowering Youth through Technology
Ajialcom has provided over 2,000 disadvantaged Moroccan youth with information and communication technologies (ICT) training to help them develop new skills and improve their employment prospects. Since January 2004, Ajialcom has established 10 Youth...
The Department of Gender, Women and Health (GWH)
GWH brings attention to the ways in which biological and social differences between women and men affect health and the steps needed to achieve health equity. The main focus of GWH is to promote the inclusion of gender perspectives in the work of the...
Arab Women Organization of Jordan ( AWO)
AWO was founded in 1970 by a group of women activists who dreamt of a society where gender equality and social justice would reign for all citizens. AWO has been involved in a long process to strengthen the status of Jordanian women to become equal...
Women Empowerment and HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh
Mohammad Khairul Alam - Executive Director, Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation: HIV/AIDS is becoming progressively more concentrated among poor populations in less developed countries. In developed countries, people are more able to learn to...
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