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Gender and Development e -Brief /
Issue 39
March, 2006
(SPECIAL –INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S
DAY)
IN THIS ISSUE
EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
GENDER
Gender and citizenship in a multicultural context
NEWS
CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Law does not recognize children of
Lebanese females
UN celebrates International Women’s Day but is blasted on gender equality
'Unions for Women, Women for Unions' campaign enters phase two
FOREIGN AID
EU donates $17.8 million to
refugees
U.K. donates $356,000 to UNRWA project to aid refugees
GENDER
Ashreat Al Amal (Sails of Hope) -
Sudan
Communication for Healthy Living (CHL) - Egypt
Communicating Safe Motherhood in Morocco
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Encourages Women to Use ICTs for
Development.
Morocco Family Planning/Maternal and Child Health Phase V Project - Morocco
Making Motherhood Safer in Egypt
No Economic Growth Without Women's Rights, UN Says
Reproductive Health Care for Somali Refugees - Yemen
Reforming Family Laws in the Middle East and North Africa
HURRIYAT
ICFTU denounces workers' rights violations in
Djibouti
Local Iraqi NGO documents prisoner abuse
ICT
Beyond the dust and heat: APC looks at Tunis and Geneva in perspective
INTERNATIONAL NGOs
Finnish NGOs push for more and
better focused aid
WIDE Statement to the 50th session of the CSW
Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
POLITICS
Governments hear civil society’s call for greater transparency in the Arab world
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
ConventionYES! Help protect
the rights of people with disabilities
Egypt Agricultural Exports and Rural Income Project
NGOs
First human-rights organization
licensed in U.A.E
Iranian civil society is an ‘ethical sector’
Arab Science and Technology Foundation
YOUTH
International Summer Work
camp in Palestine
EDUCATION
AUB aims to bring back
PhD program by 2007
REPORTS & BOOKS &
ARTICLES
CHILDREN
Violence against disabled
children
The Children of Iraq-in need of aid
GENDER
A gender perspective on the 6th WTO
Ministerial Conference at Hong Kong
Funding Sources for Gender-Equality and Women-focused Projects, BRIDGE (ed.),
2006
From Microfinance to Macro Change: Integrating Health Education and Microfinance
to Empower
Women and Reduce Poverty
Gender mainstreaming since Beijing: a review of success and limitations in
international institutions
Gender, development, and advocacy
Gender equality and the extension of social protection
Inequality in NGO and Government Salaries in Afghanistan
Social and gender analysis in
natural resource management: learning studies and lessons from Asia
The First Lady syndrome and
the marginalization of women from power: opportunities orcompromises for gender
equality?
Reference Documents on Gender and Land Where is the Money for Women's Rights?
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Preventing Iraq's Disintegration
RESOURCES
CAPACITY BUILDING
Civil Society Budgeting Toolkit: Part 1 NGO Web-Kit in French and Arabic by Morocco Country Gateway
ECONOMICS
Ensuring that Micro enterprise Funds Reach the Very Poor
DEVELOPMENT AID
USAID Report-A Year in Iraq Charities Aid Foundation
ICT
UNAIDS has launched a new
version of its website complete with new navigation, branding and logo Iraq
Resource Information Site (I.R.I.S.)
DONORS PROFILE
Aga Khan Foundation World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
GENDER
OECD Development Centre database charts discrimination against women
Development e-Brief receives and comprises of material from various sources for its publication. Should you wish to refer to these sources/ sites directly, the list includes publications from: AVIVA, www.aviva.org , AWID: www.awid.org , Democracy Digest: www.freedomhouse.org , Development Gateway: www.developmentgatway.org , Dignity: www.dignity.org , e-Civicus: www.civicus.org , Eldis: www.eldis.org, ESCWA: www.escwa.org.lb , GDB: www.developmentex.com, Global Knowledge Partnership: www.globalknowledge.org , IGTN: www.IGTN.org , ILO: www.ilo.org One World: www.oneworld.net , Siyanda:www.siyanda.org , The Daily Star: www.dailystar.com.lb , The Drum Beat: www.comminit.com , The Soul Beat: www.comminit.com , The World Bank: www.worldbank.org, UNDP: www.undp.org, Wicejilist: www.wicej.addr.com , WLP: www.learningpartnership.org
EVENTS & OPPORTUNITIES
GENDER
Gender and citizenship in a
multicultural context
The conference is a triennial event organized by the Association of Institutions
for Feminist Education and Research in Europe (AOIFE), and plans to be a
high-level, interdisciplinary event focused on gender research in a wide but
well-defined range of thematic areas. Date: 31 August – 3 September 2006 -
Venue: Lódz, Poland - Further information:
NEWS
CELEBRATION OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Law does not recognize children of Lebanese females
CRTD.A calls for right of all Lebanese to pass on nationality
The Women's Rights Club co-sponsored a women's nationality rights campaign with the Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action (CRTDA) in honor of Women's Day on March 8.For more information:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=22773#
UN celebrates International Women’s Day but is
blasted on gender equality
A coalition of international women's organisations – including more than 240
women fromover 50 countries - has castigated both UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan and the 191 member states for paying ‘lip service’ to the cause of gender
parity in the world body. For more information, visit
www.ipsterraviva.net/Europe/article.aspx?id=3066
'Unions for Women, Women for Unions' campaign
enters phase two
Anti-union violence against women, persistent wage gaps and the feminisation
of poverty do not make the situation of women in the world of work any
easier. On 8 March, International Women's Day, the international trade union
movement, building on the progress made since2002, launched phase two of the
'Unions for Women, Women for Unions' campaign. For more information, visit
www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991223520&Language=EN
FOREIGN AID
EU donates $17.8 million to refugees
BEIRUT: Delegates of UNRWA and the Head of the Delegation of the European
Commission in Lebanon, announced a $17.8 million groundbreaking educational
program to facilitatefuture employment for Palestinian refugees. For more
info:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=22486
U.K. donates $356,000 to UNRWA
project to aid refugees
Palestinians will have a chance to be
self-employed or find employment in Lebanon or abroaddue to a project funded
by the British Embassy in Lebanon which. donated $356,000 for a project
called "Governance and Empowerment of Palestinian Refugees" to benefit
around 900 Palestinians.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=22424
GENDER
Ashreat Al Amal (Sails of Hope) - Sudan
Ashreat Al Amal (Sails of Hope) is a radio serial drama that deals with
reproductive health issues in Sudan. The programme deals with HIV and AIDS
education and the importance of educating women as a means to a better life.http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds122004/experiences-2815.html
Communication for Healthy Living
(CHL) - Egypt
Communication for Healthy Living is a health communication USAID supported
project in Egypt aimed at enabling families and communities to protect and
maintain their health related to issues such as family planning and
reproductive health, maternal and child health and infectious diseases
including HIV and AIDS.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds122004/experiences-2848.html
Contact Ron Hess
rhess@jhuhcp-eg.org
Communicating Safe Motherhood in
Morocco
This document describes the development and implementation of the first
communication strategy for safe motherhood in Morocco and its key
interventions. http://www.comminit.com/africa/materials/ma2003/materials-1622.html
Free and Open Source Software
(FOSS) Encourages Women to Use ICTs for Development.
The ability of women and girls to use information and communication
technologies (ICTs) for the purpose of advancing social development goals,
for example extensive networking among women's organizations enables them to
build new knowledge regarding violence against ...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ict/rc/ItemDetail.do~1057738?intcmp=700
Morocco Family Planning/Maternal
and Child Health Phase V Project - Morocco
Funded by USAID, this maternal mortality reduction programme focused on
improving maternal health services and the health of children under the age
of five.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds32003/experiences-2375.html
Making Motherhood Safer in Egypt
Published by the Population Reference Bureau in March 2004, this 8-page
policy brief describes Egypt's efforts to reduce maternal deaths. Included
in this policy brief is an overall history of maternal mortality in Egypt, a
description of common models of service delivery in safe motherhood care,
and a list of "Lessons Learned".
http://www.comminit.com/africa/strategicthinking/st2006/thinking-1610.html
No Economic Growth Without Women's
Rights, UN Says
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27 - The world is beginning to understand that
integrating women and girls into the life of a nation is the surest path to
economic growth and development, a top U.N. official told an annual meeting
that analyzes the global status of women. For more information:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27514123.htm
Reproductive Health Care for Somali
Refugees - Yemen
Marie Stops International Yemen is offering reproductive health and family
planningservices and education sessions to Somali refugees living in Yemen.
For more info:
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds22005/experiences-3002.html
Reforming Family Laws in the Middle
East and North Africa
This new policy brief by Valentine Moghadam of UNESCO and PRB's Farzaneh
Roudi-Fahimi details how Morocco recently adopted an entirely new family law
that is consistent with the spirit of Islam, yet based on equal rights for
both men and women. For more information:
www.prb.org.
HURRIYAT
ICFTU denounces workers' rights
violations in Djibouti
A new International Confederation of Free Trade Unions report on the
observance of core labour standards in Djibouti denounces the violations
suffered by the country's workers for over 15 years. or more information,
visit
www.icftu.org/displaydocument.asp?Index=991223454&Language=EN
Local Iraqi NGO documents prisoner
abuse
An NGO established to assist former prison detainees who have suffered
abuses in prison has received an overwhelming initial response. ‘This
organisation has already received nearly 125 reports of prisoner abuse
inside Iraqi prisons,’ said Khalid Rabia’a, spokesman for the Prisoners’
Association for Justice (PAJ). For more information, visit
www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=51801&SelectRegion=Middle_East&SelectCountry=IRAQ
ICT
Beyond the dust and heat: APC looks at
Tunis and Geneva in perspective
Some months after the heat and dust settled on the Tunisian skyline, APC has
come up with its evaluation of the four-year World Summit on the Information
Society. APC concluded that there are some positive signs emerging from
WSIS. Read the eleven page report at
http://rights.apc.org/documents/apc_wsis_reflection_0206.pdf
INTERNATIONAL NGOs
Finnish NGOs push for more and better
focused aid
Finnish NGOs have compared the country's development cooperation policy with
other Nordiccountries and have concluded that on the policy level, Finland's
aid is heading in the right direction but that there is room for improvement
regarding implementation. For moreinformation, see
www.millenniumcampaign.org /site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=190470&ct=198
WIDE Statement to the 50th session
of the CSW
WIDE views the 50th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women as an
important opportunity to voice our ideas and concerns regarding
following issues:
·Gender
Mainstreaming
·Enhanced participation of women in development
·Multi-year programme of work
For more information please visit:
www.wide-network.org
Women's Environment and Development
Organization (WEDO)
WEDO is an international organization that advocates for women's equality in
global policy.
It seeks to empower women as decision makers to achieve economic, social and
gender justice,
a healthy, peaceful planet and human rights for all.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ngo/rc/ItemDetail.do~1058317?intcmp=700
POLITICS
Governments hear civil society’s call for greater transparency in the Arab world A high-level conference organised by Transparency International (TI) brought together government ministers, parliamentarians, diplomatic missions, the private sector and the media to promote the ratification and effective implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in the Middle East and North Africa. For more information, see
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
ConventionYES! Help protect the
rights of people with disabilities
Over five hundred million people, nearly 10 percent of the world's population,
have a disability. The United Nations (UN) is currently negotiating a treaty,
the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to ensure that human
rights standards are extended to people with disabilities. For more information,
visit
www.conventionyes.org
Egypt Agricultural Exports and Rural Income Project
This project by Winrock International aims to strengthen agricultural
competitiveness through the expansion of access to agricultural supply chain
entities, new technologies, skills and institutions. The project will provide
technical assistance, grants and training ...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/foodsecurity/rc/ItemDetail.do~1058269?intcmp=700
NGOs
First human-rights organization licensed in U.A.E
The United Arab Emirates has authorized its first non-governmental organization to begin work to enforce human rights in the Gulf state, said Al-Imarat Al-Yawm newspaper. Quoting a licensing decision issued by the Social Affairs Ministry, it said the Emirates Human Rights Association (EHRA) aimed to "respect and enforce human rights according to the state's laws and constitution." For more info:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=22417
Iranian civil society is an ‘ethical sector’ Civil society is the subject of intense debate in Iran today because of the limits of accountability and political decentralisation in the country. The actors of Iranian civil society are concerned with the structures that stand between government and citizens and are asimportant a force in society as were the members of civil society in the Communist period in Poland and Czechoslovakia. For more information, see
www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=87533
Arab Science and Technology Foundation The Arab Science and Technology Foundation is an independent, nongovernmental, nonprofit regional and international organization. Scientists and researchers from inside and outside the Arab world as well as representatives of Arab and international science centers ...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/knowledge/rc/ItemDetail.do~1058022?intcmp=700
YOUTH
International Summer Work camp in Palestine This project, for youth and adults up to 35, has been designed to provide international students and professionals the opportunity to meet and discuss the Middle East conflict, share ideas, enhance practical skills, foster relationships and give assistance to members of the Palestinian community. For more information, visithttp://youth.zajel.org/summer_camps/camp2006/announcing.htm
EDUCATION
AUB aims to bring back PhD program by 2007The American University of Beirut may see some exciting changes in the next few years, including the return of a PhD program, as new board of trustees' chairman Thomas Morris takes the helm of the 140-year-old institution. For more info: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=22437
REPORTS & BOOKS & ARTICLES
CHILDREN
Violence
against disabled children This report presents the findings of the Thematic
Group on Violence against Disabled Children convened by UNICEF. It looks
specifically at violence in the home, in educational and custodial settings,
institutions, the criminal justice system, community based violence, in the
workplace. Available online at:
http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC21020
The Children of Iraq-in need of aid
The Children of Iraq is an independent newsletter and website which seeks to
provide humanitarian assistance to the children of Iraq and help Americans and
others understand their plight. It calls for an end to the economic sanctions on
Iraq and calls for treating ...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/aideffectiveness/rc/ItemDetail.do~1057773?intcmp=700
GENDER
A gender perspective on the 6th WTO
Ministerial Conference at Hong Kong
The events during the 6th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization
(WTO) at Hong Kong were marked by a distinct inside–outside dichotomy, the
authors of this report describe. This WIDE analysis of the 6th WTO Ministerial
Conference provides an assessment of what Hong Kong means for women’s lives and
livelihoods.
Download:
http://www.eurosur.org/wide/Globalisation/Post_HK.pdf
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. More info at:
http://www.siyanda.org/static/bridge_genderfunding.htm
From Microfinance to Macro Change:
Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce
Poverty
This advocacy booklet calls for integration of reproductive health education
with microfinance services in developing countries. It presents individual
stories, case studies and dramatic findings to show the impact this combination
can have on reducing poverty ...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1058386?intcmp=700
Gender mainstreaming since Beijing: a
review of success and limitations in international institutions
This Oxfam article assesses progress made by international development
institutions in gender mainstreaming since the Beijing Platform for Action in
1995. Summary written in collaboration with BRIDGE and
Siyanda
Available online at:
http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC17185
Gender, development, and advocacy
This on line Oxfam journal considers gender advocacy on a number of levels in
society fromgrassroots women demanding community level change, to
coalition-building to promotechange to international trade laws.
Available online at:
http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC21128
Gender equality and the extension of social protection
This paper examines the composition of the Labour market and gender specific
vulnerabilities in relation to social protection. It argues that as women occupy
a disadvantaged status in relation to work opportunities compared to men from
equivalent social groups, ...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/ItemDetail.do~1058466?intcmp=700
Inequality in NGO and Government
Salaries in Afghanistan
Summary of article: "Government employees have complained their co-workers
employed by some nongovernmental organizations are getting high salaries that
cause socio-economic imbalance in the society.
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ngo/rc/ItemDetail.do~1058375?intcmp=700
Social and gender analysis in natural
resource management: learning studies and lessons from Asia
This on-line IDRC book documents and reflects on the steps that researchers are
taking to implement social and gender analysis, including questions of class,
caste, and ethnicity, into their everyday work.
Available online at:
http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC20982
The First Lady syndrome and the
marginalization of women from power: opportunities or compromises for gender
equality?
This article explores the dynamics of marginalizing women from political power,
and the ways in which "First Ladies" have sought to intervene through their
special position as spouses of men in power. It discusses this in the context
and experience of Nigeria and Ghana. Available online at:
http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/rdr.cfm?doc=DOC21047
Reference Documents on Gender and Land
Gender determines the individual's and group's access to and control over
resources. While women are primary agricultural producers and users of natural
resources in many parts of the world, there are still many institutional,
social, cultural and economic obstacles...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1058090?intcmp=700
Where is the Money for Women's Rights?
Just Associates in collaboration with AWID, 2005 This document assesses the Role
of Donors in the Promotion of Women's Rights and the Support of Women's Rights
Organizations. This study shows the recent trends in thefinancing of women's
rights work and organizations. For more info:
http://www.siyanda.org/static/AWID_moneyforwomensrights.htm
SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
Preventing Iraq's Disintegration
Article by Joost Hiltermann, Middle East project director at the International
Crisis Group: "Almost three years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's
regime, Iraq is at serious risk of civil war and disintegration. The attack ...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/ngo/rc/ItemDetail.do~1058630?intcmp=700
RESOURCES
CAPACITY
BUILDING
Civil Society Budgeting Toolkit:
Part 1This toolkit provides guidelines on how to go about developing and
monitoring a budget. It will help you with an overall organisational budget as
well as with a budget for a specific project. The toolkit includes tools for
estimating costs as well as tips for ensuring that your budgets meet the needs
of your project or organisation. For more information, visit
www.civicus.org/new/media/Budgeting.doc
NGO Web-Kit in French and Arabic by
Morocco Country Gateway
Tanmia.ma,
the Morocco Country Gateway, has released a new service for nongovernmental
organizations, called the NGO web kit. The kit helps NGOs develop and manage a
professional-quality website adapted to their needs. The kit, available for a
fee, was built using an open-source content management system. The kit is
available at:
http://www.assodev.ma?intcmp=800
ECONOMICS
Ensuring that Micro enterprise Funds Reach
the Very Poor
The IRIS Center at the University of Maryland is helping USAID's Office of
Microenterprise Development develop a set of accurate, low-cost poverty
assessment tools _ survey questionnaires that determine whether U.S. government
funding is reaching the poorest of ...
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/microfinance/rc/ItemDetail.do~1057974?intcmp=700
DEVELOPMENT AID
USAID Report-A Year in Iraq
This resource explains how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) have supported Iraq's recovery
from three decades of tyranny and mass murder.http://topics.developmentgateway.org/fdi/rc/ItemDetail.do~1057353?intcmp=700
Charities Aid Foundation
The Charities Aid Foundation was first established in 1924 as part of the United
Kingdom National Council of Social Services to encourage more efficient giving
to charity. In 1974, the Charities Aid Foundation became an independent
registered charity with the uniquepurpose to do all in its power to ensure that
charitable giving to all charities is as robust and effective as it can possibly
be. Today, CAF handles over £1 billion a year for donors and charities, employs
more than 300 staff in Kent and London and works around the world. For more
information, visit
www.cafonline.org
ICT
UNAIDS has launched a new version of its
website complete with new navigation, branding and logo
The new UNAIDS website has a easier navigation structure as well as content
specifically chosen for different audience groups; business and labour; civil
society; donors; media; people living with HIV/AIDS; policy-makers; researchers;
the UN family; and women. For more information, please visit www.unaids.org. New
also is the UNAIDS quarterlynewsletter available at
www.unaids.org/en/mediacentre/newsletter
Iraq Resource Information Site
(I.R.I.S.) IRIS
is a comprehensive, categorized, multi-media, Internet database of various Iraqi
topics and issues based on eyewitness testimonies, human rights reports,
reference sources, official government documents, notable editorials, maps,
chronologies, bibliographies ...http://topics.developmentgateway.org/elearning/rc/ItemDetail.do~1057776?intcmp=700
DONORS
PROFILE
Aga Khan Foundation
The Aga Khan Foundation is a non-denominational, international development
agency established in 1967 by His Highness the Aga Khan. Its mission is to
develop and promote creative solutions to problems that impede social
development, primarily in Asia and East Africa. Created as a private, non-profit
foundation under Swiss law, it has branches and independent affiliates in 15
countries. For more information, visit
www.akdn.org/agency/akf.html
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) is a
worldwide Movement providing non-formal education where girls and young women
develop leadership and life skills through self-development, challenge and
adventure. Its mission is to enable girls and young women to develop their
fullest potential as responsible citizens of the world. For more information on
WAGGGS, visit
www.wagggsworld.org
GENDER
OECD Development Centre database charts
discrimination against women
Gender equality has come a long way since International Women’s Day was first
celebrated in Europe in 8 March 1911, but a new OECD database shows deeply
rooted social norms and traditions still harming women’s economic opportunities
in many countries around theworld. For more information, please visit
www.oecd.org/dev/institutions/GIDdatabase
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