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I. Quick Guide: Millennium Review
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The review on the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be held in September 2005. Many gender advocates argue that, despite being an important tool to measure progress, the MDGs are a far too narrow set of indicators and targets.

- Gender and the Millennium Development Goals, Sweetman, C. (ed.), 2005
This volume explores the strengths and weaknesses, from a gender perspective, of using the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to understand and address poverty. http://www.siyanda.org/static/sweetman_mdgreview.htm

- Women's Empowerment, Gender Equality and the MDGs: A WEDO Information and Action Guide (English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese), Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), 2005
This Information and Action Guide makes a goal-by-goal case for gender equality to be seen as essential for achieving all the MDGs not only as a goal in its own right.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wedo_mdgreview.htm

- Who's got the Power? Transforming Health Systems for Women and Children, Freedman, L., Waldman, R., de Pinho, H., and Wirth, M., 2005
This report by the Millennium Project Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health assesses progress on Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 on child mortality and MDG 5 on maternal health.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/freedman_mdgreview.htm

- Achievements, Gaps and Challenges in Linking the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals: Report of the Expert Group Meeting, Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), 2005
This Expert Group meeting identified entry points in the 2005 review processes to link the Beijing Platform for Action, the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/daw_mdgreview.htm

- Focus on Human Rights and Gender Justice: Linking the Millennium Development Goals with the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Beijing Platform for Action, B. Neuhold, 2005
This report describes the basic processes, strengths, weaknesses and links between the Beijing Platform for Action, CEDAW and the MDGs.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/neuhold_mdgreview.htm

You can find more resources on the Millennium Review through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/. Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes: http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm

Migration will be the next Quick Guide theme. Users are invited to 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. Call to Action: Engendering the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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The Centre for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL; email: cwgl@igc.org), Development Alternatives with Women in a New Era (DAWN; email: fgdk@aol.com), Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO; email: june@wedo.org) and the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security (ngowgcoordinator@peacewomen.org) are organizing to ensure that women's rights and gender equality are not left out of the Millennium Summit review (MS+5) in September. They are developing gender-sensitive amendments for the Summit's outcome document, and asking organisations and individuals to ensure their governments support the amendments. The MDGs, accepted by United Nations member states in 2000, set targets towards eliminating poverty and promoting sustainable development throughout the world by 2015. The Goals include eliminating gender disparity in all levels of education, reducing maternal death rates and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS.

For more information see: http://www.un.org/largerfreedom or http://www.whrnet.org.

III. Websites of Interest: Millennium Review Country Reports website
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http://www.undp.org/mdg/countryreports.html

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) section of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) website was created to link national, regional and global efforts aimed at achieving the Millennium goals. It was also set-up to assist countries integrate and tailor the MDGs into their national development frameworks, particularly poverty reduction strategies. The Country Reports page contains all country progress reports on the MDGs (including progress in realising MDG 3 to Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women). The page also features the Regional reports released so far, covering Africa, the Arab world, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and Central European countries.

IV. Country Focus: Serbia
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- Kosovo Gender Analysis 2004, Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), 2004
This Sida report looks at human rights (particularly gender-based violence and trafficking), the social, economic and cultural situation, the media and political participation.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/sida_serbia.htm

- Structural Adjustment's Gendered Impacts: the Case of Serbia and Montenegro, Vladisavljevic, A. and Zuckerman, E., 2004
Structural Adjustment Lending (SAL) has had many harmful effects on the people of Serbia and Montenegro and has particular implications for work on gender equality.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/vladisavljevic_serbia.htm

- Shadow Report on the Status of Women in Serbia to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Brankovic, B., 2002
This CEDAW shadow report reviews compliance by the Serbian government to the CEDAW Articles on violence against women; equality in marriage and childbearing; trafficking in women; political participation; women and the labour market, and reproductive health and access to health care.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/brankovic_serbia.htm

Access more gender resources on Serbia here: http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=Serbia. You can also network with or find experts and practitioners from this country here: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=Serbia.

V. Experts and Consultants Database: Gender Analysis
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Over 600 international gender experts and practitioners work on or have experience in Gender Analysis. Their publications on this topic include:

- Gender-based Analysis of Citizenship and Immigration in Canada: A Working Guide, Paquette, C., 2004
- Status of Women in Canada Gender-based Analysis Trainer Manual, Paquette, C., 2002
- Gender Analysis of Budgets as a Tool for Achieving Gender Equality in the Arab World, E?im, S., 2002.
- Analysis of National Gender Equality Machineries in 26 European Countries, Barendt, R., 2000
To find out more about these publications, copy and paste the author's last name into the Name field in the Experts Search page: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/

- 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

The Siyanda Gender Experts and Consultants Database, now with over 800 profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting practitioners, researchers, activists, students and experts with like-minded colleagues working on similar themes, or in the same geographical location. Those seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies can also use it.

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

VI. New! Siyanda RSS feed
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If you don't have time to go to the Siyanda website to find the latest gender resources, don't worry...we'll bring them to you! BRIDGE is delighted to announce that the Siyanda website now has a Really Simple Syndication "RSS" feed. This technology will allow you to periodically receive the latest content from the Siyanda website straight to your desktop as soon as it is available. For an explanation and further details, see the RSS Feed Help page: http://www.siyanda.org/rsshelp.htm

** 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 Officer/Consultant
BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE

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