Siyanda Update: Funding for Gender Equality, Issue No. 62, February 2008
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In This Issue:
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I. Special Feature: Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and Annotated Bibliography – now translated into both French and Spanish
II. Quick Guide: Funding for Gender Equality
III. Country Focus: Francophone Resources and Websites
IV. Experts' and Consultants' Database: gender practitioners who have published writings in French
V. Latest Additions: including monitoring and evaluation of sports projects for girls, South Asian women's perspectives on climate change adaptation, and reproductive health issues during the conflict in the Philippines.
VI. Contribute section: share news, resources, opportunities and perspectives
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I. Special Feature: Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and Annotated Bibliography – now in both French and Spanish
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- Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and Annotated Bibliography, Esplen, E. and The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), February 2007
Women's social, economic, and legal disadvantage is exacerbated by a positive HIV status, and vice versa. This report - consisting of an overview and annotated bibliography - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS. Policy-makers must take their insights seriously.
This resource has now been translated into French and Spanish. See:
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/esplen_women_hiv.htm?em=0802&tag=SP
BRIDGE worked in collaboration with the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) to produce this report. ICW are the only international network run for and by HIV positive women. You can find out more about their work at:
http://www.icw.org/
II. Quick Guide: Funding for Gender Equality
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The following resources have been selected from 35 which have been summarised and included in the Siyanda database:
- Gender Equality, the New Aid Environment and Civil Society Organisations: a Research Project of the UK Gender and Development Network, Collinson, H., Derbyshire, H., Fernández Schmidt, B. and Wallace, T., January 2008
Many women's organisations and those focused on challenging gender inequality feel threatened by changes in aid structures. This report discusses research conducted into views and experiences of UK organisations and their international partners on these issues.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/GADN_new_aid_environment.htm?em=0802&tag=QG
- The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Aid Effectiveness and Women's Rights Series, Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID), November 2007
This set of primer documents is intended to help women's rights advocates and other actors to understand the relevance of the Paris Declaration process and to engage in it.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/AWID_aid_effectiveness.htm?em=0802&tag=QG
- Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Paradoxes and Possibilities, UNDAW, September 2007
How can increased implementation of gender equality commitments be facilitated through financial measures? This paper explores this question.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNDAW_paradoxes_possibilities.htm?em=0802&tag=QG
- Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Issues, Findings and Recommendations from an Online Discussion, UNDAW, August 2007
Findings and recommendations of a four-week e-discussion on financing for gender equality, run by the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (UNDAW).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNDAW_financing_discussion.htm?em=0802&tag=QG
- The Second Fundher Report: Financial Sustainability for Women’s Movements Worldwide, AWID, June 2007
How can we mobilise new resources to advance women's rights worldwide? The Association for Women's Rights in Development's (AWID) 'Second Fundher Report' analyses funding trends around women's rights work, provides information on donors who fund this work, and offers practical fundraising guidelines.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/AWID_financial_sustainability.htm?em=0802&tag=QG
- Women Won't Wait Campaign, Show Us The Money: Is Violence Against Women on the HIV&AIDS Donor Agenda?, Action Aid, January 2007
The report is the first step in an initiative by the coalition 'Women Won't Wait' to monitor the commitments of international agencies and national governments to address gender-based violence - including within the context of HIV and AIDS - at the level of policies, programming and funding.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/actionaid_women_wont_wait.htm?em=0802&tag=QG
- Gender Equality and Aid Delivery: What has Changed in Development Co-operation Agencies since 1999?, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), January 2007
This report examines practices and institutional approaches to gender equality and women's empowerment in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members' development co operation agencies.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/OECD_change_since_1999.htm?em=0802&tag=QG
You can find additional resources related to funding for gender equality in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=funding08&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0802&tag=QG
Sexuality and Poverty will be the next Quick Guide theme, in March 2008. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0802&tag=CS
Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm?em=0802&tag=QG
III. Country Focus: Francophone Resources and Websites
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The following selection has been produced from 40 resources added to the Siyanda database, each of which is summarised in both English and French. They are also available in the following BRIDGE reports:
:- 20 Key Gender Websites in French, Brambilla, P. and Genre en Action, 2006
:- 20 Key Francophone Resources on Gender: an Annotated Bibliography, Brambilla, P. and Genre en Action, 2006
See: http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/bibliographies.htm#16
- Website: Genre en action (in French)
This interactive portal for French speakers aims to make visible different experiences and thinking on gender mainstreaming in the South and the North, across various sectors.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Website_genre_en_action.htm?em=0802&tag=CF
- Women's Perspectives on Globalisation: Critical Approaches (in French), Karthala, January 2006
This collection of articles aims to provide the francophone public with a critical feminist perspective on the policies and practices of development cooperation among international institutions.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Bisilliat_globalisation_perspectives.htm?em=0802&tag=CF
- Website: Famafrique (in French)
Famafrique has been created as part of the 'Women's Information Highways in French-speaking Africa' project, which Enda Tiers Monde has established to coordinate networks, redistributing information and resources to and from sub-regions of Francophone Africa and the rest of the world.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Website_Famafrique.htm?em=0802&tag=CF
- Website: Anaruz (in French and Arabic)
Anaruz is the internet portal of the National Network of Centres for Women Victims of Violence in Morocco. It provides information, news, personal testimonies and statistics, as well as contact details for network member organisations.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Website_anaruz.htm?em=0802&tag=CF
- The Gender Digital Divide in Francophone Africa: a Worrying Truth (in French), Enda Tiers Mond, January 2005
This research highlights weak links between Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs), gender equality and sustainable development policy in West Africa, and calls for an immediate policy response to redress gender disparities.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Mottin-Sylla_digital_divide.htm?em=0802&tag=CF
- Gender, Power and Social Justice (in French), L’Harmattan, February 2003
This collection of articles on the theme of gender and empowerment focuses on the feminist political theories put forward in debates about power, justice and governance.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Verschuur_power_justice.htm?em=0802&tag=CF
You can find additional Francophone resources in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=french_resources08%20OR%20french_websites08&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0802&tag=CF
and network with experts and practitioners who are working in the region:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?Lang=french&em=0802&tag=CF
Kosovo will be the next Country Focus, in March 2008. Users are invited to suggest resources on this country for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0802&tag=CS
Please also visit the Country Focus archive section:
http://www.siyanda.org/country_focus.htm?em=0802&tag=CF
IV. Resources from the Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work from Siyanda Experts writing in French.
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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 written publications in French (see English title translations in brackets):
- Renforcement de la dimension Genre dans développement local. Rôle des femmes dans le processus décisionnel (Strengthening the Gender Dimensions of Local Development. Women's Role in Decision-Making Processes), Traore-Fernandez, A,. 2003
- Evaluation Finale du Programme National au Senegal sur l'Elimination des Pires Formes du Travail (Final Evaluation of the Senegalese National Programme towards the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Labour), Brand, A. 2002
- L'Integration de la femme dans le developpement rural (Integrating Women into Rural Development), Kouassi, Y. E. H., 2002
- Femmes Entrepreneurs au Bénin : Stratégie d'Organisation; Impact Economique et Social (Female Entrepreneurs in Benin: Strategies for Organising, and for Economic and Social Impact), Onibon Doubogan, Y., 2001
- Genre et le Cycle de Projet. L'utilisation des méthodiques pour l'intégration de l'aspect genre dans le cycle de projets (Gender and the Project Life-Cycle. Using Methods for Integrating Gender Perspectives in Project Cycles), Caubergs, L. 2000
- Promotion de la Jeune Fille dans les Enseignements Primaires Secondaires; Techniques; Professionnelles et Artisanales au TOGO (Promoting Young Girls in Primary and Secondary Education: Professional and Practical Techniques from Togo), Ba, K., no date
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=0802&tag=EX
The Siyanda Gender Experts' and Consultants' Database, with almost 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=0802&tag=EX
- Or edit your existing profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm?em=0802&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=0802&tag=EX
V. Other New Resources in Siyanda:
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- Tunaweza (Kiswahili: we can do it!): Measuring the Impact of Sport on Girls’ Life Skills, Herschman, A and Forde, S., January 2008
- 'We Know What We Need!' South Asian Women Speak Out On Climate Change Adaptation, Mitchell, T., Tanner, T. and Lussier, K., December 2007
- Realising Sexual Rights, Williams, F. with Jolly, S. and Cornwall, A, October 2007
- Gender Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa, Nyamu-Musembi, C, January 2007
- Conflict, State Fragility and Women's Reproductive Health: The Case of Basilan, Philippines, Magcalen-Fernandez, E., November 2006
You can locate more new resources added to the Siyanda Database here: http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm?em=0802&tag=LA, or through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/?em=0802&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).
VII. 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=0802&tag=CS
Submit your publications for inclusion in our database, or suggest other resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0802&tag=CS
Post your short pieces of work in the Users' Corner:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635&em=0802&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
Brighton BN1 9RE, UK
email: a.bannister@ids.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1273 606261
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