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Siyanda Update: Issue No. 5, September 2002
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I. Database Highlights: Gender resources on Informal Sector Workers, HIV/AIDS, and Education
II. New on Siyanda: Newsletter archive now on-line!
III. Partner Profiles: Network Women in Development-Europe (WIDE)
IV. Websites of Interest: KIT Gender and Governance and IPU Women in National Parliaments websites
V. Call for Contributions: Global Sex and Gender
VI. BRIDGE Publications: New! Gender and HIV/AIDS: Cutting Edge Pack, September 2002

I. Database Highlights:
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- What are Effective Ways for Organising Women Informal Sector Workers? Baruah, Bipasha, 2002
Article which explores the economic empowerment strategies being used by NGOs to employ women in South Asia.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/baruah_workers.htm

- Gender and Mining, Ranchod, Sarita, 2001
A report exploring the issue of gender and mining in South Africa and the South African Development Community (SADC).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/sarita_mining.htm

- The HIV/Gender Continuum, IPPF, 2002
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) have developed this new tool to help investigate how responsive an organisation's services and programmes are to gender issues related to HIV prevention.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ippf_hiv.htm

- Women's Health and HIV: Experiences from a Sex Workers' Project in Calcutta, Bala Nath, Madhu, 2000
Article on movement of sex workers in Sonagachi who are successfully negotiating safer sex relationships with clients as well as better treatment from society including from the police.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/madhu_hiv.htm

- A Guide to Gender-Analysis Frameworks, March, C, Smyth, I, and Mukhopadhyay, M, 1999
This is a single-volume guide to all the main analytical frameworks for gender-sensitive research and planning.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/oxfam_gender.htm

- Mainstreaming Gender in Education: A Toolkit for Gender Responsive Education Management in Sub-Saharan Africa, Abagi, O, 1999
The Gender Responsive Indicators Toolkit gives education planners, managers and researchers in Africa, a basic framework for assessing gender responsiveness in education management.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/abagi_mainstreaming.htm

II. New on Siyanda:
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The Siyanda Update Archive is now on-line! You can access past issues of our newsletter here:
http://www.siyanda.org/archive.htm.

If interested, you can also participate in our on-line discussions on topics such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and Gender and Conflict here: http://www.siyanda.org/participate.htm.

III. Partner Profile:
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Network Women in Development-Europe (WIDE)
http://www.eurosur.org/wide/ (Website in English and Spanish)

WIDE is a European network of gender specialists, women active in Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs), and human rights activists. It was formed in 1985 in response to the Forward-Looking Strategies developed at the Third UN World Conference on Women in Nairobi.

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

- International Trade and Gender Inequality: A Gender Analysis of the Trade Agreements Between the European Union and Latin America, Allaert, B., 2001

- Instruments for Gender Equality in Trade Agreements, Espino, A. and Van Staveren, I., 2001

- Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy, Williams, M. with Pouw, N. and Kawano, E., 2000

To access these documents go to:
http://www.siyanda.org/Search/ and type the name of the document in the keywords box.

IV. Websites of Interest:
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New KIT Website on Gender and Governance:
http://www.kit.nl/gcg/

The website is part of an international programme on Gender, Citizenship and Governance (GCG) that KIT Gender is implementing together with 16 partner organisations from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) and Southern Africa (Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe).

Inter-Parliamentary Union-Women in National Parliaments:
http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm

The section provides data compiled by the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the basis of information provided by National Parliaments by 20 September 2002. 180 countries are classified by descending order of the percentage of women in the lower or single House.

V. Call for Contributions:
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Global Sex and Gender

Parallax: The Journal of Ethics and Globalisation, seeks articles for its December 1st Global Sex and Gender issue that examine how globalisation has affected conceptions of sex and gender in all societies of the world, and, likewise, how conceptions of sex and gender as well as the manifestations of these conceptions have affected globalisation.

Parallax welcomes contributors from any field, with any background and with any view. Articles do not necessarily need to be submitted by an individual; an organisation as a whole may submit its views to Parallax as well. Pieces can be of any length. Features are generally 2000 to 4000 words and section or opinion pieces 300 to 1500 words. Parallax understands that not all contributors will have prior writing experience, online or otherwise. Our editing team would be pleased to assist contributors in preparing a piece for publication.

Unfortunately, Parallax cannot pay for any submitted material at this time. Parallax will not publish libel or any other illegal content.

To contribute to Parallax’s Sex and Gender issue, please send an e-mail query and/or article abstract to contribute@parallaxonline.org. Deadline is October 21st, 2002.

VI. BRIDGE Publications:
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- New! Gender and HIV/AIDS: Cutting Edge Pack, September 2002

The third Cutting Edge Pack has just been launched by BRIDGE on Gender and HIV/AIDS. It contains an Overview Report by Vicci Tallis (Project-Empower) and a Supporting Resources Collection by Emma Bell together with the latest issue of Development and Gender In Brief (also available in Spanish) on the same theme. To download the documents free of charge, please go to: http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/reports_gend_CEP.html.

Paper versions can be obtained from: ITDG Publications, 103-5 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4HH, UK, Telephone: +44 (0) 207 436 9761, Fax: +44 (0) 207 436 2013, e-mail: orders@itpubs.org.uk

BRIDGE publications can also be ordered online through the IDS On-line Bookshop http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/index.html. Once there, you can use the SEARCH facility to locate a list of all BRIDGE Reports and Bibliographies or to locate publications by title, author, or keyword.

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