Siyanda Update: Gender, Indicators and Measurements of Change, Issue No. 56, July 2007
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In This Issue:
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I. Special Feature: New BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: Gender and Indicators
II. Quick Guide: Gender, Indicators and Measurements of Change
III. Country Focus: Palestine
IV. Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work from Siyanda Experts with research experience in Institutionalising Gender
V. Latest Additions, including: analysing the evidence for a 'feminisation of poverty', a holistic programme for out-of-school adolescent girls in Egypt, a review of changes in gender focused aid modalities, and the UN 2006 Millennium Development Goals review report
Vi. Contribute section: share news, resources, opportunities and perspectives
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I. Special Feature: New BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: Gender and Indicators
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What does a world without gender inequality look like? Realising this vision requires inspiring and mobilising social change. But what would indicate we are on the right track - and how will we know when we get there? Gender-sensitive indicators and other measurements of change are critical - for building the case for taking gender (in)equality seriously, for enabling better planning and actions, and for holding institutions accountable for their commitments on gender.
This Cutting Edge Pack hopes to inspire thinking on these questions - with an Overview Report outlining key issues, a Supporting Resources Collection providing summaries of key texts, tools, case studies and contacts of relevant organisations, and a Gender and Development In Brief newsletter with three short articles on the theme. See:
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_CEP.html#Indicators
The full resource will soon be available online in French.
Gender and Development In Brief will be available in English, French and Spanish online and in paper copy from BRIDGE.
II. Quick Guide: Gender, Indicators and Measurements of Change
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The following resources are a selection from over 60 resources added to the Siyanda database on Gender, Indicators and Measurements of Change:
International and Regional Databases of Gender Statistics, BRIDGE, July 2007
This document contains an annotated list of international and regional gender statistics databases. It has been extracted and amended from the BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Indicators.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/BRIDGE_gender_statistics.htm?em=0707&tag=QG
ILO Participatory Gender Audit (in English, French and Spanish), International Labour Organization (ILO), January 2007
This ILO Gender Audit based on participatory approaches assesses whether internal practices and systems for gender mainstreaming are effective and whether they are being followed.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ILO_audit.htm?em=0707&tag=QG
Uncounted and Discounted: a Secondary Data Research Project on Violence against Women in Afghanistan, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), May 2006
This research report discusses the limited availability of information on cases of violence against women in Afghanistan and makes recommendations for how to improve the collection and sharing of such data.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNIFEM_afghanistan_vaw.htm?em=0707&tag=QG
Engendering Conflict Early Warning: Lessons from UNIFEM’s Solomon Islands Gendered Conflict Early Warning Project, Moser, A., January 2006
A case-study from the Solomon Islands illustrates how gender-sensitive conflict early warning indicators can be developed and implemented, in collaboration with local organisations.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNIFEM_solomon_conflict.htm?em=0707&tag=QG
Special Issue: Revisiting the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), Klasen, S. (ed.), January 2006
A special issue of the Journal of Human Development examines the impact of the GDI and GEM, identifies their conceptual and empirical weaknesses, and suggests possible modifications.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Klasen_GDI_GEM.htm?em=0707&tag=QG
An Introduction to Gender Audit Methodology: its Design and Implementation in DFID Malawi, Moser, C., May 2005
This background paper outlines the methodology used during an audit of the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) gender equality and mainstreaming work in Malawi.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Moser_gender_audit.htm?em=0707&tag=QG
Positive Women Monitoring Change: A Monitoring Tool on Access to Care, Treatment and Support Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Violence Against Women, The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) and The Support to International Partnership Against AIDS in Africa Programme, May 2005
Fed up with being approached by researchers but never seeing the results, HIV positive women in Lesotho and Swaziland devised this tool that they themselves could use with other HIV positive women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ICW_monitoring_care.htm?em=0707&tag=QG
En Route to Equality: A Gender Review of National MDG Reports 2005, Menon-Sen, K., January 2005
This gender review of national Millennium Development Goal reports provides practical suggestions for effective mainstreaming of gender concerns and tracking of progress under each Goal.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Menon-Sen_mdg.htm?em=0707&tag=QG
You can find additional resources related to indicators and measurements of change in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=indicators07&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0707&tag=QG
Gender and Disability will be the next Quick Guide theme, in August 2007. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0707&tag=CS
Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm?em=0707&tag=QG
III. Country Focus: Palestine
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Women's Health in The Village of Rihiyya: Political, Economic and Social Limitations, April 2007
This paper outlines the main health problems and health needs of women in Rihiyya village in Hebron.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/PHR_Rihiyya_Health.htm?em=0707&tag=CF
Gender Profile of the Conflict in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, January 2007
What is the impact of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on women in Palestine?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNIFEM_profile_palestine.htm?em=0707&tag=CF
Palestinian Women: Is There A Unitary Conception of Rights? Rights through The Eyes of Palestinian Women, Kjøstvedt, H., January 2006
This paper asks “ordinary” Palestinian women for their views on women's rights.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Kjostvedt_palestine_rights_women.htm?em=0707&tag=CF
Israel and the Occupied Territories: Conflict, Occupation and Patriarchy: Women Carry the Burden (in English, Arabic, Spanish and French), Amnesty International, March 2005
This report discusses the impact of occupation on Palestinian women in relation to checkpoints, discriminatory laws, detention, destruction of property, 'honour' killings, violence against women and Palestinian women as perpetrators of violence.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Amnesty_occupied_territorries.htm?em=0707&tag=CF
Integration of The Human Rights of Women and The Gender Perspective: Violence Against Women – Mission to Occupied Palestinian Territory (in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian And Spanish), Ertϋrk, Y., February 2005
This report highlights how conflict and occupation combine with gender inequality to produce multiple forms of violence against Palestinian women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Erturk_integration_rights.htm?em=0707&tag=CF
You can find additional resources in Siyanda about Palestine at: http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=Palestine&em=0707&tag=CF
and network with Palestinian experts and practitioners at:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=Palestine&em=0707&tag=CF
Myanmar will be the next Country Focus, in August 2007. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0707&tag=CS
Please also visit the Country Focus archive section:
http://www.siyanda.org/country_focus.htm?em=0707&tag=CF
IV. Resources from the Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work from Siyanda Experts with experience in using Gender Indicators
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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 220 experts who have a specialist interest in impact analysis and evaluation:
- Gender and the MDGs is Zimbabwe, 2005, Neseni, N.
- Socio-economic and Gender-sensitive Indicators in the Management of Natural Resources, 2003, Torkelsson, Å.
- Justice Indicators 2003, Alvarez, P.
- Overview of Quality of Care in Reproductive Health: Definitions and Measurements of Quality; a policy brief, July 2002, Yinger, N. et al
- Qualitative and Quantitative Indicators for the Monitoring and Evaluation of the ILO Gender Mainstreaming Strategy, 2000, Bastia, T.
- Empowerment Indicators of CASHE Project in West Bengal, India, (no date), Kumar Roy, A.
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:
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The Siyanda Gender Experts' and Consultants' Database, with over 1200 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, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the 'Feminisation of Poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Chant, S., May 2007
- Providing New Opportunities to Adolescent Girls in Socially Conservative Settings:The Ishraq Program in Rural Upper Egypt, Brady, M., Assaad, R., Ibrahim, B., Salem, A., Salem, R. & Zibani, N., May 2007
- Gender Equality and Aid Delivery: What has Changed in Development Co-operation Agencies since 1999?, Mason Oppenheim, K., January 2007
- The Millennium Development Goals Report 2006, United Nations (UN), June 2006
- Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Capacity Building Guide, The International Labour Organisation (ILO), January 2006
You can locate more Latest Additions to the Siyanda Database here: http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm?em=0707&tag=LA, or through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/?em=0707&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).
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:
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Submit your publications for inclusion in our database, or suggest other resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0707&tag=CS
Post your short pieces of work in the Users' Corner:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635&em=0707&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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