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Siyanda Update: Issue No. 6, October 2002
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INDEX:
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I. Database Highlights: including gender resources on soil fertility, trade, and business development
II. Partner Profiles: The International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW)
III. Websites of Interest: The Partnership on Sustainable Strategies for Girls' Education and ITU-Gender Section
IV. Conferences: Upcoming ILO conference on women entrepreneurs

I. Database Highlights:
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(Please note that most of the resources included below were submitted by Siyanda Users)

- Gender and HIV: The JSI (UK) Approach to Mainstreaming, Butcher, Kate, 2002
A report outlining JSI's training approach to mainstreaming HIV within organisations and through the programmes they support.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/butcher_hiv.htm

- African Studies Quarterly's Special Issue: Gender and Soil Fertility in Africa, Cassidy, L., Gladwin, C. and Hoon, P. (Guest Editors), 2001
Special issue examining the gender impacts of the soil fertility crisis in Africa.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/cassiday_african.htm

- IGTN Position Paper on the World Trade Organization, IGTN, 2001
This advocacy paper sets out the stand of the seven IGTN regions on the WTO.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/igtn_wto.htm

- Making It Work: Linking Youth, Reproductive Work and Livelihoods, Esim, S., Malhotra, A., Mathur, S., Guadalupe, D. and Johnson-Welch, C., 2001
A report analysing programmes that integrate youth reproductive health and livelihood concerns in India, Kenya, and Colombia.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/esim_youth.htm

- See How They Grow: Business Development Services for Women's Business Growth, Esim, Simel, 2001
A report on lessons learned in the provision of business development services in Bangladesh and South Africa.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/esim_business.htm

- The Asian Financial Crisis: Hearing Women's Voices, White, M. and Sharma, R., 1999
This occasional paper analyses some of the most important factors that caused the Asian crisis and its social consequences for women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/white_asian.htm

II. Partner Profile:
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International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW)
http://www.icrw.org/

The International Centre for Research on Women is a private non-profit organisation founded in 1976 and based in Washington, D.C., with an office in India. ICRW's work has three distinct dimensions - research, technical support for capacity building, and advocacy.

A selection of WIDE's publications in the Siyanda database:

- See documents by Simel Esim in the "Database Highlights" Section (above).
- Gender, Sexuality, and HIV/AIDS: The What, the Why, and the How, Gupta, Geeta Rao, 2000
To access this document go to:
http://www.siyanda.org/Search/ and type the name of the document in the keywords box.

III. Websites of Interest:
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- The Partnership on Sustainable Strategies for Girls' Education Website
The Partnership on Sustainable Strategies for Girls' Education is an international, inter-agency group dedicated to improving educational opportunities for girls in the developing world.

- International Telecommunications Union (ITU) - Gender Section:
http://www.itu.int/gender/index.html
A website established by the ITU to promote gender equality in and through communications, and in recognition that society as a whole will benefit from equal participation of women and men in policy and decision-making and from equal access to communications services.

IV. Conferences:
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Upcoming ILO Conferences on Women Entrepreneurs

A series of national conferences in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia will focus on the findings of field research about women entrepreneurs. The events, which are part of the ILO Jobs, Gender and Small Enterprise in Africa Project, are planned in Addis Ababa from 18-19 November 2002; Dar es Salaam from 21-22 November; and in Lusaka from 5-6 December.

The Africa project is part of the International Food Programme (IFP) /SEED Women's Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) unit. Participants in the Africa conferences will include ILO constituents, associations of women entrepreneurs, government departments, other support agencies and non-governmental organisations.

Issues to be discussed will include the findings of research into growth orientated women entrepreneurs and strategies for overcoming barriers to growth. Within the InFocus Programme, WEDGE aims to promote increased economic opportunities for women, as well as gender mainstreaming.

For more information contact:
Grania Mackie, Associate Expert
WEDGE programme, IFP/SEED
ILO/BIT, 4 route des Morillons
Geneva 22
Switzerland
Tel: + 41.22.799.7782
Fax: + 41.22.799.7978
E-mail: Mackie@ilo.org
http://www.ilo.org/seed

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