Siyanda Update: Young People and Children, Issue No. 64, April 2008
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In This Issue:
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I. Quick Guide: Young People and Children
II. Country Focus: Tanzania
III. Experts' and Consultants' Database: a selection of published work from Siyanda Experts on young people and children
IV. Latest Additions: including a strategy planning workshop report of the Feminist Network on Gender, Development and Information Society Policies, and a review of Sida's work in Kenya from a sexuality angle
V. Contribute section: share news, resources, opportunities and perspectives
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I. Quick Guide: Young People and Children
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How does gender affect the challenges that young people and children face? What can be done to realise their rights and maximise their opportunities?
The following resources have been selected from 41 resources which have been summarised and included in the Siyanda database about young people and children:
- Freedom of Choice: A Youth Activist’s Guide to Safe Abortion Advocacy, Youth Coalition, October 2007
This guide aims to build young people's capacity to advocate for safe abortion care services.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/youth_coalition_abortion.htm?em=0804&tag=QG
- 'Giving Out their Daughters for their Survival': Refugee Self-reliance, 'Vulnerability', and the Paradox of Early Marriage, Refuge Law Project, April 2007
How do early marriages in Uganda's refugee settlements contribute to or reduce vulnerability?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/rlp_marriage.htm?em=0804&tag=QG
- 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
The State of the World's Children 2007 reports on the lives of women around the world for a simple reason: gender equality and the well-being of children go hand in hand. This report illustrates the challenges that remain to achieving gender equality and provides a road map to accelerate progress towards empowering women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/unicef_children_2007.htm?em=0804&tag=QG
- Empowering Young Women to Lead Change (in English, French and Spanish), World YWCA, June 2006
This manual is designed to enable young women to prepare and facilitate training on a host of issues that are important to them.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/YWCA_change.htm?em=0804&tag=QG
- The Program H Manual Series (in English, Spanish and Portuguese), Instituto Promundo, January 2004
Program H has developed 5 training manuals which aim to support young men to question traditional gender norms.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/promundo_program.htm?em=0804&tag=QG
- Website: United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI) (in English, French and Spanish)
Author United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI),
The UNGEI website features global and country-specific news and information on gender and education, and hosts resources on related subjects.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ungei_website.htm?em=0804&tag=QG
- Website: Scarleteen
Scarleteen is a US-focused website that offers a resource for sex information specifically tailored for teens, to supplement in-home and school-based sex education.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/scarleteen_website.htm?em=0804&tag=QG
You can find additional resources related to young people and children in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=young_people08&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0804&tag=QG
Politicising Masculinities will be the next Quick Guide theme, in May 2008. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0804&tag=CS
Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm?em=0804&tag=QG
II. Country Focus: Tanzania
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- Paper on Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Experiences from Tanzania, Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP), August 2007
This paper analyses impact and achievements of gender responsive budgeting initiatives in Tanzania and gives recommendations for future actions.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/tgnp_financing_gender.htm?em=0804&tag=CF
- Tanzania Gender and Economic Growth Assessment, International Finance Corporation – World Bank Group, May 2007
This Assessment highlights the legal, regulatory and administrative barriers to women's full participation in private sector development in Tanzania, and makes recommendations on how to overcome these.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wb_tanzania_growth.htm?em=0804&tag=CF
- Fair’s Fair: Health Inequalities and Equity in Tanzania, Women’s Dignity Project, November 2006
The report examines differences in health outcomes and health care among different socio-economic groups in Tanzania, as well as across different parts of the country. It also considers why some groups - particularly those in rural areas - face greater inequalities than others.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wdp_tanzania_health.htm?em=0804&tag=CF
Gender Mentoring - a Guide for Strengthening Equality in Communities, Pact Tanzania, January 2006
This manual outlines a 'gender mentoring' process designed to support people to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to raise awareness of gender issues and inequalities within organisations and institutions.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/pact_mentoring.htm?em=0804&tag=CF
- Housing Development and Women’s Right to Land and Property: Review of Women Advancement Trust’s Development Programme and the Partnership, Norwegian Building Research, January 2005
The Women Advancement Trust (WAT) in Tanzania carries out various initiatives related to land rights, affordable housing, and inheritance rights. This report presents lessons learned from a housing and shelter development initiative.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wat_housing.htm?em=0804&tag=CF
You can find resources in Siyanda about Tanzania at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=tanzania08&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0804&tag=CF
Senegal will be the next Country Focus, in May 2008. Users are invited to suggest resources on this country for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0804&tag=CS
Please also visit the Country Focus archive section:
http://www.siyanda.org/country_focus.htm?em=0804&tag=CF
III. Resources from the Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work from Siyanda Experts on young people and children
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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 experts who have an interest in young people and children:
:- The Current State of Burundi’s Street Children, Cadesky, J., 2006
:- Understanding Childhood Poverty in Rajasthan, Mathur, K., 2005
:- Enabling Households to Support Successful Migration of AIDS Orphans in Southern Africa, Ansell N, 2004
:- International Protection of Children: Study into the Situation of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors in San José and Quesada City, Costa Rica (in Spanish); Original title 'Defensa de los Niños Internacional; Estudio sobre la Situación de la Explotación Sexual Comercial de Personas Menores de Edad en San José y Ciudad Quesada, Costa Rica', Denkers, N., 2003
:- Boys Will Be Boys: Addressing the Social Construct of Gender, Thomson, M., 2002
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/?em=0804&tag=EX
The Siyanda Gender Experts' and Consultants' Database, with over 1,300 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.
- Enter your details in the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm?em=0804&tag=EX
- Or edit your existing profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm?em=0804&tag=EX (using your user name and password)
The database is also an excellent resource for those seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies.
- Search the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/?em=0804&tag=EX
IV. Other New Resources in Siyanda:
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- An Approach to the Kosovo Post-War Rehabilitation from a Gender Perspective, Villellas Ariño, A., and Redondo de la Morena, G, January 2008
- Report on the Strategy Planning Workshop of the Feminist Network on Gender, Development and Information Society Policies, IT for Change, November 2007
- Looking at Sida Work in Kenya from a Sexuality Angle, Trip Report September 26-October 11 2007, Jolly, S., November 2007
You can locate more new resources added to the Siyanda Database here: http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm?em=0712&tag=LA, or through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/?em=0712&tag=SS (copy and paste the title without characters such as ":" ";" and "-" or copy and paste the author's last name into the Search box).
V. 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/?em=0804&tag=CS
Submit your publications for inclusion in our database, or suggest other resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0804&tag=CS
Post your short pieces of work in the Users' Corner:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635&em=0804&tag=CS
(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team members. This update was edited by Adrian Bannister)
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Adrian Bannister
Information & Networking Officer
BRIDGE - Gender and Development
The Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
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