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I. Quick Guide: Girls' Education
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The international community failed to fulfil its promise to have as many girls as boys enrolled in schools by 2005, missing the opportunity to give girls, their families, communities and countries a better future.

- Computer Tool: Girls' Education Designing for Success, Kane, E., 2005
This is a tool to help policymakers, planners, educators, researchers, managers and other development specialists to create practical country-led and country-specific plans for educating girls.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/kane_computergirls.htm

- State of the World’s Mothers 2005 - The Power and Promise of Girls Education, Save the Children, 2005
This progress report focuses on girls' education and argues that the educated girls of today will most likely be the empowered mothers of tomorrow.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/savechildren_mothers.htm

- Girls' Education: Towards a Better Future for All, DFID, 2005
This paper describes DFID's planned actions to support work towards the education and gender Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/dfid_girlseducation.htm

- Summary of E-discussion on Gender Equality MDG and Task Force Report, ActionAid, 2004
This document summarises an electronic discussion of 1200 participants from among NGOs and civil society groups on the interim report prepared in early 2004 by the Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/actionaid_ediscussion.htm

- What Works in Girls’ Education: Evidence and Policies from the Developing World, Herz, B. and Sperling, G.B., 2004
This paper summarises the most promising approaches to increasing girls' enrolment and educational quality.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/herz_whatworks.htm

- 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_educationall.htm

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will be the next Quick Guide themes. Users are invited to suggest resources on these topics for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/

II. Country Focus: Philippines
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- Philippine Response to the 2003 UN CSW Questionnaire on PFA Implementation, NCRFW, 2004.
This report contains highlights of progress in implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (PfA) (1995) and outlines interventions from 2001-2003 aimed at removing the main obstacles to Filipino women's advancement.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ncrfw_philippineresponse.htm

- Country Gender Assessment-Philippines, ADB, 2004
This report examines the situation of women in the Philippines. It identifies major gender issues and their implications for programming and project activities of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/adb_genderassess.htm

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

III. Experts and Consultants Database: Education
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The database contains profiles of more than 240 practitioners, experts and consultants working on education. Their publications on this topic include:
- Genderspace: Learning Online and the Implications of Gender, Flansburg, S. (with Hanson, K. and Castano, M.), 2004
- Political Will and Capacity for Attaining the Gender MDG, Background paper for DFID’s 2005 Girls’ Education Strategy, Rose, P., 2004
- Where Inequalities Intersect: The Challenge for Gender Equality in Education in China, Equals, Beyond Access: Gender, Antonowicz, L. (with Challender , C.), 2004
- Changing the Future. Impact Assessment of the Jamaica All Age Schools Project, Ministry of Education Youth and Culture Jamaica / Centre for International Development and Training, Daniel, P., 2003
- Alternative Modes of Financing Higher Education and Implications for Governance, Aina, O., 2002
For further details on these publications, copy and paste or type the author's last name into the Name field in the Experts Search page: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/

- View the latest added consultants:
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

The Siyanda Gender Experts and Consultants Database, now with over 800 profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting practitioners, researchers, activists, students and experts with like-minded colleagues working on similar themes, or in the same geographical location. Those seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies may also use it.

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

IV. Latest Additions:
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Topical resources recently added to the database include:
- Progress of the World’s Women 2005: Women, Work and Poverty, Chen, M., Vanek, J., Lund, F., Heintz, J., Jhabvala, R., and Bonner, C., 2005
- Gender, Water and Development, Coles, A., and Wallace, T., 2005
- Gendered Health Systems Biased Against Maternal Survival: Preliminary Findings from Koppal, Karnataka, India, George, A., Iyer, A. and Sen, G., 2005
- Gender Issues and Concerns in Financing for Development, Floro, M., Çagatay,N., Willoughby, J. and Ertürk, K., 2004
- Notes on the Gender Perspective in Financing for Development and the Monterrey Consensus, INSTRAW, 2004
- Towards Realistic Strategies for Women’s Political Empowerment in Africa, Longwe, S., 2000
You can access the above resources here: http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm

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/

V. New BRIDGE Publication:
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Gender and Migration Cutting Edge Pack
How does migration advance or impede gender equality? How can policy-makers and practitioners promote gender equality in work on migration?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/bridge_migrationcep.htm
(A print version of the English Cutting Edge Pack will be out in October 2005. The pack will also be available in French (print and electronic) and Spanish (electronic) in November 2005.)

These packs, along with all other BRIDGE publications including In Brief, can be downloaded free from the BRIDGE website at http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk. Paper copies will be available for sale through the IDS virtual bookshop at http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/index.html, or from the IDS bookshop, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE, Email: bookshop@ids.ac.uk, Telephone: 01273 678269, Fax: 01273 621202. A limited number of copies will be available free on request to organisations based in the South (contact BRIDGE for more details: bridge@ids.ac.uk.)

(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team members)

** 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.**