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I. Quick Guide: Facts and Figures
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Gender-disaggregated statistics are essential to building up a picture of the nature and extent of gender inequality.

- Statistics and Indicators on Women and Men, United Nations (UN) Statistics Division, 2005
The United Nations (UN) Statistics Division website provides statistics and indicators on women and men in six specific fields of concern.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/un_statsindicators.htm

- Women in Parliament, The International Parliamentary Union (IPU), 2005
The International Parliamentary Union (IPU) maintains up-to-date statistics, as submitted by national parliaments, on the participation rates of women in national parliaments around the world.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ipu_parliament.htm

- United Nations Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean (UNECLAC) Gender Statistics, ECLAC, 2005 (English and Spanish)
This site offers a statistical overview of the situation of women and men in Latin America and the Caribbean broken down by country, disaggregated by sex with comparative overviews of the whole region.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/eclac_genderstats.htm

- A Global Outrage: Global and UK Statistics, Amnesty International, 2005
According to this web-based fact sheet from the "Stop the Violence" campaign at least one out of every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/amnesty_globalukstats.htm

- Women and HIV/AIDS: Select Facts, International Women's Health Coalition, 2004
Facts in this sheet include that nearly 50 percent of the 38 million people living with HIV/AIDS are female, up from 41 percent in 1997.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/iwhc_womenhivaids.htm

- Progress of Arab Women, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Arab States Regional Office (ASRO), 2004 (English and Spanish)
This comprehensive report serves as a tool for identifying unfulfilled promises and for revisiting current strategies and programmes of action for protecting the human security of the 140 million Arab women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/unifem_arabwomen.htm

Additional resources on Gender Facts and Figures can be found through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/. Please visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes: http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm

Security will be the next Quick Guide theme. Users are invited to submit or suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/

(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team members)

II. Country Focus: Morocco
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Access key gender resources: http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=Morocco
network with, or find, consultants: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=Morocco

Macedonia will be the upcoming country of focus. Users can submit current gender and development publications on this country for possible inclusion in the database here: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/ Users are also invited to enter their profile in the Gender Experts and Consultants Database: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm, if they are based in or come from this country.

III. Experts and Consultants: Participation
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There are 285 Siyanda experts working on/with experience in Participation currently featured in the database. Their publications on this topic include:
- I Plan, You Participate: A Southern View of Community Participation in Urban Australia, Lahiri-Dutt, 2004
- Increasing Women's Participation in Municipal Consultations: A federation of Canadian Municipalities, Hanson, 2004
- Gender and Democracy - What Works? Strategies to Increase Women's Representation, Stephenson, 2004
To find these publications, copy and paste the author's last name into the Name field in the Experts Search page.

- Review the latest experts and consultants:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/latest.cfm
- Join the growing list of experts and consultants:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm
- Search the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/
- Edit your existing profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm

**Have you networked with or hired someone featured in the Siyanda Experts and Consultants database? If so, then let us know! Email us at: siyanda@ids.ac.uk**

IV. New User Submissions:
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The following resources, submitted by Siyanda users, are now available on the website:
- Inclusive Security, Sustainable Peace: A Toolkit for Advocacy and Action, International Alert and Women Waging Peace, 2004
- Intersecting Protections, Migrating Women: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers, Satterthwaite, M., 2004
- I Have A Story To Tell, CAMFED International, 2004
- Women's International Human Rights, Woelte, S., 2003
- Impacting through Media. A Guide to Using the Media in Technical Cooperation, Bohmann, K., 2003
- Taking a Closer Look - Reflections on Methodology of Gender Evaluations with a View to African Realities and Practices of Sida’s Development Cooperation, Possing, S., 2003

Users can locate these publications from the latest additions page: http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm, or through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/ (copy and paste the title without characters such as ":" ";" and "-" or copy and paste the author's last name into the "Search Words" field)

To suggest a resource for possible inclusion in the Siyanda database, please read our editorial policy http://www.siyanda.org/help.htm#editorial, then fill-out the resources submission form: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/

Please also see the Siyanda Users' Corner for newsletters, meeting reports, student papers and newspaper articles:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635

V. Announcements:
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View the latest vacancies, meetings, and calls for papers posted in this section, and publish your own news:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120040105020249
(If you do not have easy or cheap Internet access, please e-mail your contribution to: siyanda@ids.ac.uk and we will post it on the forum for you).

** The "Siyanda Update" is a monthly newsletter featuring the latest gender mainstreaming resources available on the Siyanda website http://www.siyanda.org/. Siyanda aims to assist busy gender practitioners with locating essential gender mainstreaming resources quickly and easily. It is also an interactive space where gender practitioners can share ideas, experiences and resources with like-minded colleagues**

All the best,
Ra'ida Al-Zu'bi
Information and Networking Officer/Consultant
BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE

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