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I. Quick Guide: Funding
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Funding for gender issues is declining in almost all development sectors. Women's groups should therefore build on their fundraising skills and look to alternative funding sources.

- Funding Sources for Gender-Equality and Women-focused Projects, BRIDGE (ed.), 2006
This document is a list of potential funding sources for gender equality and women-focused projects.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/bridge_genderfunding.htm

- Scholarships, BRIDGE (ed.), 2006
This resource provides information on grants for women needing support for study, research and training.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/bridge_genderscholarships.htm

- Where is the Money for Women’s Rights? Assessing the Role of Donors in the Promotion of Women’s Rights and the Support of Women’s Rights Organizations, Clark, C., Sprenger, E., VeneKlasen, L., of Just Associates in collaboration with Alpizar Duran, L. and Kerr, J. of AWID, 2005
This study shows the recent trends in the financing of women's rights work and organisations.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/AWID_moneyforwomensrights.htm

- Writing a Funding Proposal, Shapiro, J./CIVICUS, 2005
A toolkit on how to prepare, write and follow-up funding proposals.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/shapiro_fundingproposal.htm

- Women's Fundraising Handbook (English, French and Spanish), Global Fund for Women, 2005
This handbook draws on the expertise of Global Fund for Women staff and provides advice on raising money to fund women's rights work.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/globalfund_fundraisinghandbook.htm

- Guide for Designing Results-Oriented Projects and Writing Successful Proposals (English and Spanish), IPPF, 2002
A guide on how to design projects and get funding for them.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/IPPF_proposalguide.htm

- Making A Difference: New Wealth, Women & Philanthropy: Partnerships For Supporting Women & Girls, 2001
This tool explains how women's funding organisations can target newly wealthy women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/fundingnetwork_womenphilanthropy.htm

You can find additional resources on Funding through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/

Gender-based violence (GBV) 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/ Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes: http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm

II. Country Focus: Japan
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- Still Waiting After 60 years: Justice for Survivors of Japan's Military Sexual Slavery System, Amnesty International, 2005
This report summarises the evidence that the “comfort women” system violated international law and stresses that, in light of this, the state has legal obligations to provide full compensation to the survivors.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/amnesty_slaveryjapan.htm

- Japan's Action Plan of Measures to Combat Trafficking in Persons (English and Japanese), Government of Japan, 2004
This paper is an action plan produced by the Government of Japan to combat trafficking in persons, especially women and children.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/japangov_traffickingactionplan.htm

- Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, The Summary Report of The NGOs in Japan, Rev.2, Japan NGO Network for CEDAW (JNNC), 2003
This is an NGO report on Japan's progress on CEDAW implementation.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/japanngo_cedawrev2.htm

Access more gender resources on Japan here: http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=Japan, or network with experts and practitioners: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=Japan

III. Experts and Consultants Database: Guides
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Many of Siyanda's experts and practitioners have written guides on various gender and development issues. These include:
- Human Rights and AIDS: Guide for Community Workers (Spanish), Vazquez, M. (contributing author), 2004
- Diverting the Flow: A Resource Guide on Gender, Rights, and Water Privatization, Pearl, R., 2003
- Guide to Resources on Immigration (Spanish), Alvarez, P., 2003
- Guide to the NGO Code of Conduct, Muricho, A., 2003
- Gender Reference Guide, Evertzen, A./SNV, 2003.
- CEDAW Convention, Practical Guide for NGOs (Dutch), 2003
- Guide to Integrating Gender Considerations into Industrial Pollution Management, Mera, P., 2003
- Guide on Gender and Development Approaches for use of the Populizers from INVA, UNFPA (ed.), Bellal, N., 2002
- A Guide to Gender-sensitive Microfinance, Murray, U., 2002

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/

- View the latest consultants added:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/latest.cfm
- Join the list:
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 (you need a user name and password)

The Siyanda Gender Experts and Consultants Database, now with over 900 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.

IV. User Submissions:
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The following resources, suggested by Siyanda users, are now available on the website:
- Gender and the Qualitative Interpretation of Data, Taher, N. and Laboratoire Demographique - University of Geneva, SDC, 2006
- The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base, Jutting, J., Morrisson, C., Dayton-Johnson, J. and Drechsler, D., 2006
- The Implications of Changing Educational and Family Circumstances for Children’s Grade Progression in Rural Pakistan: 1997–2004, 2006
- The Women’s Movement in the Zimbabwe Constitutional Debate: The Continuous Journey to a Gender Fair Constitution, Ncube, J., 2005
- Educating Girls in Bangladesh: Watering a Neighbour's Tree?, Raynor, J., 2005
- Legal Regulation of Marital Relations: An Historical and Comparative Approach, Arlette, G., 2005
- A Global Alliance against Forced Labour, ILO, 2005
- Data and Research on Human Trafficking: A Global Survey, IOM, 2005
- Peacekeeping in West Africa: A Regional Approach, Bernath, C. and Martin, S., 2004
- Family Planning Policies in Developing Countries: from Malthusianism to Feminism? (French), Arlette, G., 2002

You can locate these publications 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 box).

V. Features: New! Funding and Scholarships Sections
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In response to users' information requests, and to complement this month's update, BRIDGE added two new topics - Gender Funding and Scholarships - in the Participate section:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120060118122711
Please check regularly for new additions, and feel free to post gender funding and scholarships opportunities by clicking on Add Comment.

See the full Participate section where you can engage in discussions, or view and add events, calls for papers and vacancies:
http://www.siyanda.org/participate.htm
Also see the User's Corner to view and/or add newsletters, meeting reports, and short papers
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635

VI. Siyanda website: redesigned and more user-friendly website
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BRIDGE has redesigned the Siyanda website to make it even more user-friendly and easy to navigate. This was done in response to user feedback (via email and a survey), and also with input from BRIDGE's International Advisory Committee (IAC). The IAC consists of twenty-two members from a range of regions and organisations with working languages French, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese.

Changes to the website include adding a search box to the homepage; rearranging the sections on the homepage to highlight important features such as Siyanda's Gender Experts and Consultants database; and changing the name of the Participate section to Contribute. The latter was done to encourage more Siyanda users to actively engage in contributing to Siyanda in order to make it more reflective of their needs and interests. Please review the new website http://www.siyanda.org/, and send us your comments: siyanda@ids.ac.uk.

(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team members. This update was edited by Paola Brambilla)

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**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 to locate 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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