For Simple Searching:

• You can find resources in other languages by typing the language name in the "search words" box. For example, type "Arabic" for Arabic resources.
  
• Check the spelling of each word you type in the "search words" box.
  
• Remove characters such as ":" ";" and "-" from your search.
• You MUST combine search words with OR, AND and NOT. For example, if you want to search for materials on feminism in Islam type "feminism AND Islam" in the keywords box.
• You can search for materials by their year of publication. For example, if you want to search for HIV/AIDS materials published in 2002, type "HIV/AIDS AND 2002".
• To search by country or region, type the name of the country or region in the "search words" box.
• You usually do not need to type the word gender in your search. E.g. to search for materials on gender issues in Uganda type "Uganda".
• The "Search" function performs a search of the gender resources database and not of the website pages.

• "Advanced Search" allows you to search by category, region, or type of document (report, guide, tool etc...).
• Enter words into the search box, use AND, OR as for basic searching
• The search will retrieve the records which contain all of the search terms provided. For example, searching for sustainable development will return records which contain the phrase sustainable development, in Africa (if you highlighted Africa in the region box)
• Use the truncation symbol "*" to find plurals and word stems. For example, farm* will find records containing farm, farms, farmer, farming, etc.