Siyanda Update: Gendered Approaches to Microfinance, Issue No. 53, April 2007
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I. Advert: Senior Gender Officer, BRIDGE
II. Quick Guide: Gendered Approaches to Microfinance
III. Country Focus: Jordan
IV. Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work from Siyanda Experts who speak Arabic and work in the Middle East / North Africa
V. Latest Additions: including DFID’s new Gender Equality Action Plan, UNICEF’s State of the World’s Children 2007 Report, and the Tanzanian Government’s 2006 Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Report.
VI. Contribute section: share news, resources, opportunities and perspectives
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I. Advert: Senior Gender Officer, BRIDGE
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Salary: £29,055 – £38,448 per annum, subject to experience
Closing Date: 15th May 2007 (11:00 am UK time)
Interview Date: week commencing 28th May 2007
BRIDGE seeks a committed gender and development specialist who is enthusiastic about the role that information can play in furthering the goals of gender equality and realising women’s rights.
To ensure the quality of our written resources you will have a significant editing role, as well as undertaking selected research and writing tasks. Your management duties will include overseeing staff, managing ad hoc projects, and deputising for the BRIDGE Manager.
The Senior Gender Officer reports directly to the BRIDGE Manager. The post is based in Brighton, in the UK. It is a permanent position.
For further information and to download an application form please log on to:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/recruit/196_SGO_Bridge_Ad.html
Please circulate this information through your networks.
II. Quick Guide: Gendered Approaches to Microfinance
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The following resources are a selection from over 20 resources added to the Siyanda database focusing on the challenges of mainstreaming gendered approaches to microfinance:
- "Just the facts ma'am" - Gender Stories from Unexpected Sources with Morals for Microfinance, Cheston, S., November 2006
Is it profitable for microfinance initiatives (MFIs) to target women? This resource uses case-studies to illustrate how women and MFIs can benefit each other.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/cheston_morals_microfinance.htm?em=0407
- Women and microlending in Western Europe, Underwood, T., April 2006
How extensive is microlending in Western Europe and what barriers affect women's participation in such programmes?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/underwood_microlending_europe.htm?em=0407
- Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY): Providing Social Support, Savings, and Microcredit Opportunities for Young Women in Areas with High HIV Prevalence, Erulkar, A., Bruce, J., Dondo, A., Sebstad, J., Matheka, J., Khan, A. and Gathuku, A., March 2006
Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY) was a multiphase microfinance initiative which aimed to reduce adolescents' vulnerabilities to adverse social and reproductive health outcomes, including HIV infection, by improving their livelihoods options.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/erulkar_microfinance_hiv.htm?em=0407
- Women’s Empowerment through Sustainable Micro-Finance: Rethinking “Best Practice”, Mayoux, L., February 2006
This report challenges assumptions about the automatic benefits of microfinance for women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/mayoux_microfinance_bestpractice.htm?em=0407
- From Microfinance to Macro Change: Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty (In English and Spanish), Watson, A. A. and Dunford, C., January 2006
This advocacy booklet describes the benefits of integrating reproductive health education with microfinance services and offers recommendations for action.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/watson_microfinance_health.htm?em=0407
- Is Microfinance a ‘Magic Bullet’ for Women’s Empowerment: Analysis of Findings from South Asia, Kabeer, N., October 2005
This article sets out the limitations and possibilities of microfinance in terms of women's empowerment.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/kabeer_microfinance_bullet.htm?em=0407
You can find additional Microfinance resources in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-quickguide.cfm?keywords=micro-credit
Participatory Approaches will be the next Quick Guide theme, in May 2007. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/
Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm
III. Country Focus: Jordan
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- Honoring the Killers: Justice Denied For “Honor” Crimes In Jordan, Human Rights Watch, January 2007
In Jordan, a woman's life is at risk if she engages in allegedly “immoral or shameful” acts - like talking to a man who is not her husband. This report describes the social context in which “honour” crimes take place in Jordan and provides detailed recommendations to enhance the protection of women and girls.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/hrw_honoring_killers.htm?em=0407
- Convention on the Elimination of all Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Periodic Report - Jordan (2005), March 2006
This reports presents the gender equality policy measures implemented by the Jordanian government in the period July 1997 to July 2005.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/cedaw_jordan_2005.htm?em=0407
- Towards Political Empowerment for Jordanian Women, United Nations Fund For Women Arab States (UNIFEM), January 2006
What are the obstacles to women's political empowerment in Jordan and how should a strategy to address these obstacles be developed? This report investigates this.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/unifem_empowerment_jordan.htm?em=0407
- The Economic Advancement of Women in Jordan: a Country Gender Assessment, Social and Economic Development Group Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA), May 2005
This report argues that women's economic advancement is central to the country's productivity and competitiveness, and it proposes a number of policy priorities and recommendations to advance the contribution of Jordanian women to the country's development.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/mena_assessment_jordan.htm?em=0407
- Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health in Jordan: Status, Issues, Policies and Programs, Almasarweh, I. S., January 2003
This report discusses the barriers to reproductive health faced by adolescents in Jordan and proposes recommendations for action.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/almasarweh_reproductive_health.htm?em=0407
You can find additional resources in Siyanda about Jordan at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=Jordan
and network with Jordan experts and practitioners at:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=Jordan
Cambodia will be the next Country Focus, in May 2007. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/
Please also visit the Country Focus archive section:
http://www.siyanda.org/country_focus.htm
IV. Resources from the Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work from Siyanda Experts who speak Arabic and work in the Middle East / North Africa
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The Experts' and Consultants' Database contains names, contact details and areas of expertise of people working on gender specific issues worldwide, and includes some of their publications. The following resources have been selected from over 65 experts who have specialist research interests in the Middle East / North Africa and who speak Arabic:
- Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present; Zed Publishers, March 2007, Al-Ali, N.
- Dynamics of Changing Gender Relation among the Lahawiyin Pastoral Community, 2005, Khalid, T. A.
- The Challenge of Implementing Morocco's New Personal Status Law, 2004, Willman Bordat, S.
- Promoting women’s human rights in the midst of conflict, 2003, Hussein, S. A.
- Implementing SC Resolution 1325, 2002, Muna, M.
- The Disengagement of the Palestinian Women’s Movement: Reconsidering Social Movement Theory, 2002, Jamal, M.
For further details on these publications, copy and paste or type the author's last name into either the Name or Search Words field on the
Experts' and Consultants' search page: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/
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- Search the database:
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http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm (using your user name and password)
The Siyanda Gender Experts' and Consultants' Database, with over 1000 profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting practitioners, researchers, activists, students and experts with like-minded colleagues, persons working on similar themes, or in the same geographical location. It is also an excellent resource for those seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies.
V. Latest additions to the Siyanda Database
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- Gender Equality Action Plan 2007-2009. Making Faster Progress to Gender Equality, The Department for International Development (DFID), February 2007
- Women Won't Wait Campaign, Show Us The Money: Is Violence Against Women on the HIV/AIDS Donor Agenda?, Fried, S. T., January 2007
- The State of the World’s Children 2007: Women and Children: the Double Dividend of Gender Equality, The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), December 2006
- Mkukuta National Strategy For Growth And Reduction Of Poverty Status Report 2006, Research and Analysis Working Group, MKUKUTA Monitoring System, Ministry of Planning, Economy and Empowerment, December 2006
- Landless Women, Hopeless Women. Gender, Land and Decentralisation in Niger, Diarra, M., and Monimart, M., October 2006
- Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS, Rothschild, C., Reilly, M., and Nordstrom, S, January 2006
You can locate more Latest Additions to the Siyanda Database here: 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 box).
VI. Contribute section
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Share your news, resources, opportunities and perspectives in the following ways:
Post your announcements, information requests, training and funding opportunities:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/?emf=0407
Submit your publications for inclusion in our database, or suggest other resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?emf=0407
Post your short pieces of work in the Users' Corner:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635&emf=0407
Participate in current discussions on topical gender issues e.g. sexuality:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120031010045342&emf=0407
(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team members. This update was edited by Adrian Bannister)
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