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I. Quick Guide: Beijing +10 Review and Appraisal Process
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Ten years after the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) in Beijing, how far have governments and other stakeholders come in fulfilling the promises set out in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA)?

- Beijing Betrayed: Women Worldwide Report that Governments Have Failed to Turn the Platform into Action, The Women’s Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO), 2005
The fifth global monitoring report by WEDO assesses governments' progress in implementing the commitments they made at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) in Beijing, 1995.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wedo_beijingbetrayed.htm

- The Role of National Mechanisms in Promoting Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Report of the Expert Group Meeting, UN Division for the Advancement of Women Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DAW), 2005
This report emerged out of an Expert Group Meeting arranged by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) to contribute to the review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/daw_bpfanationalmech.htm

- From Beijing to Addis Ababa: What Progress for African Women?, Adjamagbo-Johnson, K., 2004
This paper sets out some priority areas of the BPfA and discusses these in relation to progress for women in Africa.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/adjamagbo_beijingaddis.htm

- Arab Regional Report on the Ten-year Review and Appraisal of the Beijing Platform for Action, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) (English, Arabic and French), 2004
This report reviews Arab States' efforts to implement the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and the outcome document of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/unescwa_arabbpfareview.htm

- Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing +10 - the 'Big purple book', Isis International Manila and APWW, 2004
This 'Big Purple Book' is the draft compilation of the Asia-Pacific regional assessment of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/isis_bpfaasiapacific.htm

- The Road Towards Gender Equity in Latin American and the Caribbean, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (English and Spanish), 2004
This study assesses the fulfilment of the commitments enshrined in regional and international commitments, including the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/eclac_roadtoequality.htm

- Beijing +10, 1995-2005: Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action by the European Union, European Women's Lobby (EWL), 2004
This alternative report maps the actions, legislation and programmes of the European Union (EU) undertaken to implement the 12 areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) since 1995.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ewl_bpfareview.htm

Summaries written by BRIDGE Team members. More Siyanda resources on the Beijing +10 Review and Appraisal Process 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

Gender Facts and Figures will be the next Quick Guide theme. Users are invited to submit or suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/

II. Forums: Reflections on Beijing +10
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To mark the 10th Anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) Siyanda invites users to post short reflections (500-1000), reports, statements and websites on Beijing +10. In addition to being published on Siyanda, there will be a link to this forum from the IDS website.
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120050214113818

(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 on the forum for you).

III. Country Focus: Senegal
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Access key gender resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=senegal
network with, or find, consultants: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=senegal

IV. Experts and Consultants: Law and public policy
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Many of the 800 Gender Experts and Consultants currently featured in the database have written extensively on gender, legal and public policy issues. Titles of their work include:
- Towards Different Law and Public Policy: The significance of Article 5a CEDAW for the Elimination of Structural Gender Discrimination by Holtmaat (2004)
- Poverty and International Human Rights Law by Hadiprayitno (2003)
- The New Legal Status of Women in Turkey by Ilkkaracan " (2002)
- Gender Equality and Public Policy (in Serbian) by Dokmanovic (2002)
- Law and Order Situation and Gender-based Violence: Bangladeshi Perspective by Yasmin (2000)

- Review the latest experts and consultants added to Siyanda:
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/

Siyanda tip: to edit or update your gender experts and consultants profile, enter your username (which is your email address: e.g. siyanda@ids.ac.uk) followed by your password: (you were sent a password when you first entered your profile in the database) here: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm

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

V. New User Submissions:
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The following resources, submitted by Siyanda users, are now available on the website:

- Partnerships for Girls' Education, Rao, N. and Smyth, I., 2005
- What Men and Women Want: A Practical Guide to Gender and Participation, Buhaenko, H., Butler, V., Flower, C. and Smith, S., 2004
- Why Might Women support Religious “Fundamentalism”?, Nisha, 2004
- See both Sides: A Practical Guide to Gender Analysis for Quality Service Delivery, Richardson, K., 2004
- Gender Mainstreaming in Development and Trade Policy and Practice: Learning from Austria, Belgium, and the UK, Painter, G., 2003
- Gender, Citizenship and the Role of NGOs in Selected Gulf Countries (Arabic), Al-Najjar, B., 2003
- Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society, Hambly Odame, H., Hafkin, N., Wesseler, G., and Boto, I., 2002

Users can locate these publications during this month from the latest additions page: http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm, or through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/ (copy and paste the title without characters such as ":" ";" and "-" or copy and paste the author's last name into the "Search Words" field)

To suggest a resource for possible inclusion in the Siyanda database, please read our editorial policy http://www.siyanda.org/help.htm#editorial, then fill-out the resources submission form: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/ You can also post short pieces of work (not more than 10 pages) in the Users' Corner: http://www.siyanda.org/userscorner/

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

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