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I. Quick Guide: Literacy
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Literacy has often been seen as an important and cost effective way of bringing
people out of poverty and empowering marginalised groups. However research and
practice over the past decade has indicated the picture is more complicated
than this may suggest.
- Gender and Education for All: The Leap to Equality, UNESCO, 2003
This report discusses the progress of UNESCO's Education for All (EFA) programme
in achieving parity and equity in education through using a human rights approach.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/unesco_educationleap.htm
- Literacy, Gender and Social Agency: Adventures in Empowerment, A Research
Report for ActionAid-UK, Fiedrich, M. and Jellema, A. with Haq, N., Nalwoga,
J. and Nessa, F., 2003
This research project looked at four Reflect participatory adult education projects
in Bangladesh and Uganda.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/fiedrich_literacyactionaid.htm
- Open Learning System of Adult Education for Empowering Women in India, Sween,
Bal, S.S. and Singh, R., 2003
This paper outlines how it is important to recognise the varying needs of different
groups of women and to integrate women into existing systems of adult education.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/sween_openlearning.htm
- A Longitudinal Study of the Effect of Integrated Literacy and Basic Education
Programs on Women’s Participation in Social and Economic Development in
Nepal, Burchfield, S., Hua, H., Baral, D, Rocha, V., 2002
This study looks at two literacy programmes in Nepal: the Basic Primary Education
Program (BPEP) and the Health Education and Adult Literacy Program (HEAL).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/burchfield_integratedliteracy.htm
- Gender Equality in Education: A Select Annotated Bibliography, Hulton, L.
with Furlong, D., 2001
Material that spans the breadth of the ever-growing literature on gender and
education in developing countries is presented in this annotated bibliography.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/hulton_edubibliography.htm
- Why Eat Green Cucumbers at the Time of Dying: Women's Literacy and Development
in Nepal, Robinson-Pant, A., 2000
In Nepal there has been an explosion of literacy programmes due to the popular
perception that it is the key to women's empowerment. This report questions
whether such programmes really meet women's needs.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/robinson_greencucumbers.htm
Summaries written by BRIDGE Team members.
More Siyanda resources on gender and literacy can be found through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/. Please visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes: http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm
Mainstreaming in Practice 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/
II. Country Focus: United States
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Access key gender resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=juneus
network with, or find consultants: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=united%20states
from this country.
Indonesia will be the upcoming country of focus. Users can submit current gender
and development publications on this country for possible inclusion in the database
here: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/
Users are also invited to enter their profile in the Gender Experts and Consultants
Database: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm,
if they are based in or come from Indonesia.
III. Useful Websites:
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Women in Literacy
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http://womeninliteracy.org/index2.html
The goal of Women in Action is to help women undertake 2,000 life-changing projects in marginalized communities in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Americas by the year 2005. This initiative relies on women having gained the literacy skills they need to understand and change their daily reality. Therefore, it builds on the achievements of Women in Literacy, an initiative that has helped Laubach's partner programs provide effective literacy instruction to more than 1,000,000 of the world's disadvantaged women since its inception in 1991.
For more information, please contact:
Corporate Communications
1320 Jamesville Avenue
Syracuse, NY 13210
Phone: (315) 422-9121 Ext. 374
Fax: (315) 422-6369
E-Mail: info@proliteracy.org
Women and Literacy Special Collection
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http://www.womensliteracy.org/index.html
The website is a service of the U.S. based National Institute for Literacy, established to strengthen literacy across the lifespan. It provides a comprehensive collection of women-focussed basic skills research, teaching/ learning and training resources. Materials are selected to appeal to a diverse audience of adult learners, literacy practitioners, program administrators, researchers, and all individuals with an interest in women and literacy. Users of the website can also engage in an online discussion on women and literacy, facilitated by the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy (CSAL) in the U.S.
For more information, please contact:
Daphne Greenberg, Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
Georgia State University
University Plaza
Atlanta, GA 30303-3083
Telephone: 1 404-651-0127
Fax: 1 404-651-4901
Email: dgreenberg@gsu.edu
Reflect
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http://217.206.205.24/
Reflect is a innovative approach to adult learning and social change which fuses the theories of Paulo Freire (a Brazilian educator who radicalised a whole generation of literacy workers in the 1960s and 1970s by linking literacy to social change) with the methodology of participatory rural appraisal (a set of techniques used to share learning between community members and development practitioners throughout the project cycle). The Reflect approach is currently being applied by over 350 diverse organisations in more than 60 countries. A collection of resources on the Reflect approach, a calendar of events for upcoming reflect workshops and a latest news section are available on the website.
For more information, please contact:
Current Editor
Email: reflectaction@yahoo.co.uk
IV. Gender Experts and Consultants Database: Latest Additions
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http://www.siyanda.org/exps/latest.cfm
New Siyanda experts and consultants come from diverse professional backgrounds. The latest include a Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Research and Training in Malawi, a Gender Focal Person at the National Assembly of Zambia and a Project Manager for the Gender and Conflict Transformation Course at The Network University in the Netherlands.
To join the growing list of experts and consultants go to: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm
You can also search the database here: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/
V. Siyanda Users' Corner:
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http://www.siyanda.org/userscorner/index.cfm?Thread=120030204122635&FullMsg=220040613114258#220040613114258
New user contributions include the second issue of "Gender and Peace-building" on "Militarization and Gender in Development Cooperation" and excerpts from the summary report of the "Sexual and Bodily Rights as Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa" Workshop.
Siyanda Users are invited to post short pieces of work such as newsletters, background papers and workshop reports in this section, provided that they are no longer than 10 pages.
(If you do not have easy or cheap Internet access, please e-mail your contribution to: siyanda@ids.ac.uk and we will post it in the Users' Corner for you).
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