SELECTED WEBSITES GENDER


Gender Database

 www.oecd.org/dev/inst/GDI database

 

Gender and Project Cycle (source: ATOL)

 

http://www.fao.org/ag/aga/Presentations/John/John/sld001.htm

http://www.gdrc.org/gender/framework/g-framework.html

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Manuals/Gender_Checklists/Agriculture/agri0404.asp?

http://brazil.accc.ca/english/gender/guidelines/

http://www.worldbank.org/gender/resources/projc.htm

http://www.intercooperation.ch/sed/download/wep-manual/

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/evaluation/methods/PCM_Manual_EN-march2001.pdf

http://www.pcm-group.com/download_materials/courses/en/pdf/1d_Terms_used_management.pdf

http://www.norad.no/default.asp?V_ITEM_ID=967

http://www.nlc.co.za/train/six0.htm

http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/pcm.htm

http://www.adb.org/Gender/checklists.asp

http://www.worldbank.org/gender/module/techniq/promote.htm

http://www.apcwomen.org/gem/go4gem/element2w1.htm

http://www.undp.org/water/gender.html

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php@URL_ID=11484&URL_DO=DO_

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/mdtmanila/training/unit1/harvrdfw.htm

http://www.thecommonwealth.org/gender

http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/qsm/document

 

Gender Budgeting (source IDS Bridge)

Siyanda
http://www.siyanda.org/
All the summaries and the full online documents from this Collection (plus more) are featured in the Siyanda database (hosted by BRIDGE). Search using the term 'budgets'.

BRIDGE
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge
For online versions of this Cutting Edge Pack (and previous ones such as Gender and Participation): http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/reports_gend_CEP.html

English, French and Spanish copies of In Brief:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/Bri_bull.html

For BRIDGE gender and economics online materials including Glossary on Macroeconomics from a Gender Perspective and Women's and Gender Budgets: An Annotated Resource List:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/reports_gend_ec.html

Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives (GRBI) website
http://http://www.gender-budgets.org/
This website is part of the UNIFEM/IDRC/Commonwealth Secretariat Gender Responsive Budgeting Initiative. It features events, GRBI activities and an online document library.

Heinrich Boll Foundation (Berlin)
http://e-education.uni-muenster.de/boell/
'Gender Budgets, Financial Markets, Financing for Development: The Gender Dimensions of the Global Financial Architecture' conference website, February 19-20 2002. Features conference papers.

International Budget Project (IBP)
http://www.internationalbudget.org/
The IBP assists researchers and NGOs in developing countries to improve budget policies and decision-making processes. It encourages policy research, fosters networking and provides information and technical assistance. The website features online materials and contact details for members (including those working on gender budgets).

Gender, Decentralization and Public Finance Resources
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/publicfinance/decentralization/gender.htm
This web page from the World Bank Institute contains links to a wide range of public finance-related materials, with a significant number on gender budget concepts and initiatives, including World Bank Institute workshop materials from:

  • Workshop on Gender-responsive Budgeting (April 3, 2002).
  • Workshop on Gender-responsive Budgeting in Pakistan (November 20-21, 2002).
  • Materials from a 3-hour training module in Moscow and St. Petersburg (2002) on gender-responsive budgeting as part of a larger training programme on fiscal decentralisation.

-Gender Equality Links of the GENDERNET

Gender Equality Links
Table of Contents

Part I: By Topic

Part II: By Region

Part III: GENDERNET Members/ Observers/ Non-DAC OECD Members/Others

Part IV: International Organisations - gender pages

Part V: International Conventions and Declarations

 

PART I: By Topic

Agriculture:

Business/Enterprise Development:

Communication:

  • http://alainet.org/mujeres/ : ALAI’s (Agencia Latinoamericana de Información) Women’s Program actively promotes the right to communicate, and a gender focus in communication. ALAI drew up proposals on communications for the 4th World Conference on Women and, in concertation with other organisations, contributed to the chapter on Women and Media of the Beijing Platform for Action. This website gathers documentary material in these issues, in Spanish, English and French.
  • http://www.ips.org/: IPS-Inter Press Service, the world’s leading provider of information on global issues.

Computing:

  • http://www.cpsr.org/program/gender/index.html: Gender Page of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR).
  • http://cra.org/Activities/craw/: The goal of CRA Committee on the status of Women in Computer Science and Engineering (CRA-W) is to take positive action to increase the number of women participating in Computer Science and Engineering research and education at all levels.

Conflict, Peace and Freedom:

Development:

  • www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/bri_bull.html:   BRIDGEThe BRIDGE bulletin, development and gender in brief, aims to raise gender awareness among policy makers and practitioners. Drawing on the body of BRIDGE reports, and other current literature, the bulletin provides succinct, state-of-the-art updates on specific themes. Previous issues covered environmental projects, poverty reduction strategies, conflict, emergency responses, and institutionalising gender. The bulletin is mailed to 2,500 interested individuals and organisations mainly in developing countries.
  • http://awid.org/body_index.html: AWID-The Association for Women in Development is committed to gender equality and a just and sustainable development process trough out the world.
  • http://www.sn.apc.org/: SANGONET –Southern Africa’s Non-profit Internet Service Provider is a regional electronic information and communications network for development and human rights workers.
  • http://www.fao.org/sd/seaga/: SEAGA-The Socio-economic and Gender Analysis Programme. Strengthening socio-economic and gender analysis at regional, national and local levels by providing development specialists with practical methods and tools.
  • http://www.undp.org/gender/:  UNDP’s Gender in Development Program and Gender Good practice: Gender Mainstreaming.
  • http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~thiesmey/widenglish.html: The Women and Development Online Information Project.

Economics:

Education: (and Career Development):

  • http://www.feminist.com/bisas1.htm:   BISA-Black Women in Sisterhood for Action is a national non-profit corporation whose purposes are to develop and promote alternative strategies for educational and career development of black women in the world of work; provide scholarship assistance to deserving youths; provide support and social assistance to senior black women in the community; share information and resources in meaningful ways with the community-at-large; and to provide leadership, role models, and mentors for young people.
  • http://www.unicef.org/girlsed/gelef.htm:   UNICEF’s web site on Girl’s education.

Electronic Forums - Global Internet sites - On-line databases:

(see also General Women's Resources)

  • http://www.dev-zone.org/knowledge/Gender/E-mail_Bulletins_You_Can_Subscribe_To/ : Dev-Zone knowledge centre
  • http://www.girlsgoglobal.org/index.html : The Girls Go Global Project is an international initiative to bring together contemporary and popular culture images of global feminism from women and girls across the globe. We invite you to share your visions to create a better future.
  • http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/130625/ : Development Gateway: The Gender and Development page of the Development Gateway is envisioned as an Internet platform for gender and development-related resources, information, and dialogue. The objective is to enhance the effectiveness of development efforts worldwide through sharing knowledge of gender-sensitive analysis, actions and policies.
  • www.siyanda.org: Siyanda (meaning “we are growing” in isiZulu) meets practitioners’ needs for accessible and diverse gender information. It provides a comprehensive online database of summaries and links to gender materials such as tools, manuals, case studies, policy papers and research, including Southern-originated and non-English language resources. Siyanda also provides an interactive online space for practitioners to share materials, discuss the latest issues, and good and bad practice, in order to help meet the challenges of putting policy into practice. Hosted by BRIDGE.
  • http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html: Frequently updated, award-winning listing of publicly-accessible electronic forums related to women or to women-focused gender issues.
  • http://www.femina.com/index.html (see FeMiNa under General Women’s Resources)
  • http://www.feminist.com/win.htm : WIN-Women’s International Network News. A world-wide open participatory communication system by, for and about women of all backgrounds, beliefs, nationalities, and age groups.
  • http://www.research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/forums.html : Women-and Gender related e-mail lists/electronic forums. Extensive list of listservers and discussion forums on a array of women’s issues.

Environment:

  • http://www.wedo.org/ :   WEDO-Women Environment and Development Organisation. WEDO is committed to empowering women. WEDO has a global information and advocacy network of more than 18.000. Women must have an equal say in decision-making on environment, development, population, reproductive rights, technology, political participation and other issues affecting their lives, their families and the future of the planet, and healthy communities make a healthy planet. In focusing on women’s roles, needs, and capacities in movements to restore the environment to sustainable health.

Food Security and Gender:

Health, Population, Sexual and Reproductive Rights:

  • http://www.oecd.org/health : OECD- Health
  • http://www.oecd.org/health/healthdata : OECD-Health Data 2003
  • http://www.genderandaids.org: UNIFEM with UNAIDS created a portal on gender and HIV/AIDS
  • http://www.eldis.org/healthsystems/gender/ : ELDIS has produced a useful guide, with the help of IDS BRIDGE, on Gender and Health documents.
  • http://www.feminist.com.health.htm/: General women’s health issues.
  • http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Register/pop-ctr.html: Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Gender and Population Policies: the program has a central focus on issues of gender equality and empowerment of women, and includes a perspective on ethics and women’s movement. Recently the Centre has carried out various complementary activities as a follow-up to the Cairo proceedings.
  • http://www.iwhc.org/: International Women’s Health Coalition.
  • http://www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se/:  Q Web Sweden a women’s empowerment base. A global knowledge for exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas on women’s health and gender issues.
  • http://www.who.int/gender/en/ :   WHO-World Health Organisation’s Department of Gender and Women’s Health is charged with helping WHO’s various programs and departments undertake the challenge of integrating gender considerations into their work. It is also responsible for researching and disseminating information on neglected topics directly pertaining to women's health, such as gender-based violence against women.
  • http://hivaidsclearinghouse.unesco.org:  The HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse contains hundreds of downloadable documents exploring the impact of HIV/AIDS on Education as well as the ways in which education can mitigate the effects of the epidemic. Users can also consult our online calendar of upcoming HIV/AIDS-related events, participate in online discussion, etc.

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights:

  • http://www.crlp.org/: The Centre of Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) is a non-profit legal and policy advocacy organisation is dedicated to promote women’s reproductive rights all over the world (consult the world-wide link of CRLP). CRLPs domestic and international programs engage in litigation, policy analysis, legal research. And public education seeking to achieve women’s equality in society and ensure that all women have access to appropriate and freely chosen reproductive health services.
  • http://www.fordfound.org/:  The Ford Foundation: sexual and reproductive health. Global offices in this program: Cairo; Hanoi; Jakarta; Lagos; New Delhi; Mexico City; Moscow; Rio de Janeiro; and Santiago.
  • http://www.feminist.com/repro.htm:   Links to related web sites.

Human Rights - Law-:

  • http://www.igc.apc.org/gfw/: Global Fund for Women, promotes women’s rights groups around the world.
  • http://www.iwtc.org/ : IWTC-The International Women’s Tribune Centre. IWTC's work is grounded on the premise that access to information and the ability to communicate are basic to the process of women's empowerment, to women's ability to re-defining development paradigms, to women's participation in the public policy arena and to the building of democratic societies. IWTC's work is focused in five programme areas: (1) human rights, (2) advocacy and accountability with a focus on the Beijing plus Five meeting, (3) information access and communication capacity-building; (4) networking and organizational support; and (5) Women, Ink, a knowledge-brokering service.
  • http://www.equalitynow.org/:  Equality Now: Human Rights and Women’s Actions.
  • http://www.hrcr.org/: Human & Constitutional Rights. Human Rights web site posting country reports, international-and national links, and documents.
  • http://www.iwraw-ap.org/resources/human_rights.htm : IWRAW-International Human Rights Watch-Asia Pacific is an international network of activists, scholars, and organisations that focus on advancement of women's human rights,served by a resource and communications centre based at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. In 1993 an IWRAW Asia Pacific program was established, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to monitor Convention(CEDAW) implementation and provide training and public education on using the Convention effectively in policymaking in the Asia Pacific region.
  • http://www.madre.org/: MADRE: a international women’s human rights organisations with local women’s organisations in different parts of the world.
  •  http://www.unifem.org/index.php?f_page_pid=24 : UNIFEM: web site on promoting women’s human rights.
  • http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/sites.htm:   University of Toronto; Women’s Human Rights Resources. List of International women’s human rights web sites, useful addresses.
  • http://www.wld.org/:   WLD-Women, Law and Development is a non-profit, NGO (category II consultative status to the UN Economic and Social Council). WLD promotes women’s full and equal participation in nations all around the world by advancing universal respect for human rights, expanding rights education and legal literacy among women, and challenging discriminatory socio-economic barriers.

General Women’s Resources:

(see also Electronic Forums-Global Internet Sites-On-line)

  • www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/bri_bull.html: BRIDGE bulletin In Brief. BRIDGE, the gender and development information service based at the Institute of Development Studies, UK, produces Gender and Development In Brief on topical gender issues. This popular bulletin is produced with the input of partners (writing and dissemination). It contains an overview as well as two articles by Southern-based practitioners. Topics covered have included gender and armed conflict; gender and budgets; and gender and HIV/AIDS. The printed and electronic versions are currently distributed to over 6000 readers in English, French and Spanish.
  • http://www.femina.com/index.html:  FeMiNa is a large, searchable directory of links to women’s sites and information on the WWW including a database and search engine.
  • http://feminist.com/gen.htm:  General women’s resources: various types of web sites.
  • http://www.aviva.org/:  AVIVA is an international women’s listing magazines, rum by an international group of women based in London. Featuring international links related to women, news on migrants and women’s issues, information on political actions, art, women’s fiction, women’s studies, events, resources, and organisations. Searchable by region and country.
  • http://www.penelopes.org/ : Les Penelopes is a French non-profit association promoting and disseminating information about and for women.
  • http://www.igc.org/home/womensnet/index.html : WomensNet
  • http://www.csudh.edu/wc/womenctr.htm:   Women’s Centre at California State University. Interesting links to different gender-related subjects.
  • http://www.womenink.org/:  Women, ink. is a project of the International Women’s Tribune Centre to market and distribute books on women and development world-wide. It is the exclusive distributor of publications from UNIFEM.
  • http://women3rdworld.miningco.com/:   "Women’s Issues-3rd World" provides NetLinks to different countries and various topics.

Governance, Leadership and Politics:

Politics:

  • http://www.int-idea.se/women/index.html: International IDEA-Institute for democracy and election assistance. Women in Politics: Beyond Numbers. Its focus is the quantitative and qualitative impact of women on political decision-making. Its objective is to improve and enhance women’s effectiveness in political positions and to strengthen their impact in decision-making forums.
  • http://www.ipu.org/iss-e/women.htm: IPU-Inter-Parliamentary Union posts a web site on gender partnership; democracy through partnership between men and women in politics.
  • http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm:   IPU: Women in national Parliaments, statistics.
  • http://www.ndi.org/globalp/women/women.asp : NDI-The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs is committed to promoting the equitable participation of women in politics and government. Support for increased participation of women in political leadership is consistent with NDI's mandate to strengthen the inclusive and representative character of democratic institutions world-wide. NDI organises programs devoted primarily to encouraging and enabling women to assume responsibility for their own increased participation and makes the participation of women as participants and presenters a facet of all its programs. To date, NDI's programs to enhance women's political participation range across the spectrum of NDI program activities. This paper summarises NDI's women's programs which address issues in election processes, democratic governance, political party building and civic participation.

Labour Markets and Gender: (see also Economics section and Women’s Budgets section)

Land Tenure - Property Rights:

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs):

  • http://www.worldbank.org/gender/mdgworkshop/: International Workshop “Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals“, 19-20 November 2003, Washington, D.C. An International Workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals, jointly sponsored by the UN Interagency Network of Women and Gender Equality, the OECD/DAC GENDERNET and the Multilateral Development Bank Working Group on Gender.
  • http://www.undp.org/mdg/ UNDP: Web site on MGDs

Poverty Reduction:

  • http://www.crop.org/:  CROP-Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (rather poor on gender issues, however relevant on poverty reduction). CROP, established by the International Social Science Council in collaboration with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is a program founded on the logic that reliable data and sound theories provide a basic tool for poverty alleviation. CROP has created an arena for social scientists from all over the world, working on different aspects of poverty.
  •  http://www.eurostep.org/pubs/position/gender/logender.htm : EUROSTEP: the Eurostep position paper “Poverty Eradication and Gender Equality. A Benchmark for the Successor Agreement between the EU and the ACP”, which was produced for the Ministerial negotiations taking place in July 1999, we would like to comment on the results of the negotiation concerning poverty eradication and gender equality.
  • http://www.undp.org/toppages/focus%20areas/focus.htm:   UNDP Links on Poverty, Environment, Gender and Governance.
  • http://www.unrisd.org/engindex/research/rescurr3.htm:   UNRISD-United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Gender Program on Poverty and Wellbeing. (Current research projects).

Refugee Women: (See also Conflict, Peace and Freedom section).

Research and Studies on Gender Equality:

  • http://www.icrw.org/CRWL-International Center for Research on Women.
  • http://www.id21.org/:   This is the ID21 Development Research reporting service, a selecting of the latest and best UK-based development research. This online service offers hundreds of summaries of problem-solving work on critical development dilemmas around the world. This Information for Development in the 21st Century is drawn from; over 40 top UK research centres; conference papers, unpublished reports; research by aid and development agencies and pressure groups; research consultants. Many contain gender equality relevant material.
  • http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/themes/mp17/gender/gender.htm:   IFPRI: The Gender Research Network was initiated by the CGIAR Gender Program and is sponsored by the USAID/WID "Strengthening Development Policy Through Gender Analysis" project at IFPRI to link researchers at CGIAR centres, national research institutes, and universities who are involved in gender and intra-household research. The network includes GENDEV (formerly Gender CG), an e-mail network; a printed newsletter; Gender-Prop, an e-mail conference on gender and property rights (now concluded); and a new Gender and Development Policy Discussion simultaneous with brown bag Seminar on "Gender and Development Policy".
  • http://www.igc.org/home/womensnet/index.html : WomensNet - IGC:Women: Internet-Resources Collection. Extensive directory on women’s issues, including economics, health & reproductive rights, resources on the net, violence, women & technology, women’s organisations and women’s studies.
  • http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/research/gsintro.shtml : Gender Research Group,University of East Anglia, School of Development Studies.
  • http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/women/ :USIA-United States Information Agency: Resources on Women. Implementing the Platform for Action.
  • http://www.library.yale.edu/wss/:  WSSLINKS-Women’s Studies Section Links. This web page is an excellent resource to search for women’s studies links on a wide range of topics.

Research from the South:

Science and Technology:

Statistical:

Trade Liberalisation and Women:

Violence against Women: (See also UNDAW under Part IV and CEDAW under Part V).

Water Management and Sanitation: (See World Bank: Sectoral Indicators).

Women’s Budgeting: (See also UNIFEM, under Part III, Oberservers).

  • http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/institu.htm:   Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women. The Platform for Action, underscores the need to develop a more comprehensive knowledge of all forms of work and calls on national, regional and international statistical services and relevant governmental and UN agencies "to develop an international classification of activities for the time-use statistics that is sensitive for the differences as between women and men in remunerated and unremunerated work" (para. 206 (f) and (g).
  • http://www.wedo.org/ffd/kit.htm : Financing for Development Gender Policy Briefing Kit. A Joint Project of the United Nations Development Programme and the Women's Environment & Development Organization.
  • www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/bri_bull.html:   BRIDGEThe BRIDGE bulletin, development and gender in brief, aims to raise gender awareness among policy makers and practitioners. Drawing on the body of BRIDGE reports, and other current literature, the bulletin provides succinct, state-of-the-art updates on specific themes. Previous issues covered environmental projects, poverty reduction strategies, conflict, emergency responses, and institutionalising gender. The bulletin is mailed to 2,500 interested individuals and organisations mainly in developing countries.

PART II: By Region

see also Part III

Africa:

Asia and the Pacific:

Australia and Oceania:

Central and Eastern Europe:

  • http://www.neww.org/:   NEWW-Network of East-West Women links women across national and regional boundaries to share resources, knowledge and skills. Its mission is to empower women and girls throughout the East and the West by dialogue networking, campaigns and educational and informational exchanges. Provides links to women’s resources in Central and Eastern Europe and NIS.

Latin America and the Caribbean:

Middle East:

North America:

  • http://www.herplace.org/ : CWIA - Canadian Women’s Internet Association. The web site serve as a resource and meeting place for Canadian women. It contains hundreds of links to sites relevant to women, with a special focus on Canadian content.
  • http://www.honorearth.org/aboutiwn.html : IWN-The Indigenous Women’s Network.

Western Europe:

  • http://www.genreenaction.net/ : Network Genre en Action - the gendre and development information portal based at Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noir, IEP, Bordeuax. Supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • www.ids.ac.uk/bridge
  • www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/bri_bull.html
  • www.siyanda.org: BRIDGE supports gender mainstreaming efforts of policymakers and practitioners by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible and diverse gender information. This is undertaken through accessible and appropriate knowledge creation, sharing, and management, in long-term collaboration involving mutual capacity-building with Southern and Northern partners. BRIDGE produces bulletin Gender and Development In Brief and hosts an on-line database Siyanda of gender and development materials.
  • http://agence.francophonie.org/deposez/appel_prop_fiche.cfm?prj_id=181: Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie – projects “Women and development”. Based in Paris.
  • http://www.amazone.be/Main/Frameset.asp?reference=01-01&lang=en&sess=253810277& :  Amazone, the national resource center on equality between women and men.This site also hosts  the website of the Archive Center for Women's History and provides access to the pages of the women's organisations with an office in Amazone.
  • http://www.engender.org.uk/ : ENGENDER is an information, research and networking organisation for women in Scotland, working with other groups locally and internationally to improve women's lives and increase their power and influence. The organisation campaigns to ensure that women and their concerns have greater visibility and equal representation at all levels of Scottish society.
  • http://eurplace.org/orga/eudif/index.html:   EUDIF-Women’s European Network of Documentation and Information.
  • http://www.ifor.org/:  IFOR-International Fellowship for Reconciliation-Women Peacemaker’s Program.
  • http://www.kvinfo.dk/: KVINFO is an information centre and cultural centre concerned with the dissemination of information on women and gender research to a wider audience. KVINFO’s primary activity is its research library, which is open to the public. At our Research Library site, you can find links to Danish and Nordic information and research resources. (Denmark).
  • http://www.lige.dk/:  (only available in Danish).
  •  http://www.nikk.uio.no/index_e.html : The Nordic Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, University of Oslo.
  • http://www.owl.ru/eng/index.htm:  OWL-Open Women Line wants to provide access to new information technologies and international communications for Russian women’s organisations.
  • http://www.db-decision.de/GenderMainstreaming/belgium.html : The European Database Women in Decision-Making provides a valuable source of information for politicians and researchers, social partners, the media and NGOs. It will also prepare the ground for qualitative studies and strategies to increase participation and impact of women in decision-making.
  • http://www.eurosur.org/wide/porteng.htm:   WIDE-Women in Development Europe works to influence European and International policies and to raise awareness on gender and development issues among important sectors of opinion in Europe, with the objective of empowering women world-wide. Belgium.
  • http://www.uia.ac.be/women/wise/ : WISE-Women’s International Studies Europe stands for the promotion of women’s studies research, teaching and publication in Europe, and the defence of women’s studies on a European and international level in all appropriate institutions and organisations. Belgium.
  • http://women-www.uia.ac.be/women/:   Women’s EuroMap. Belgium. Infomation on women studies.
  • http://www.womansearch.com/:  New search engine for women’s sites. Can be search by keyword or category.

PART III: GENDERNET Members/Observers/ Non-DAC OECD countries/Others

see also Part II

1. GENDERNET Members:

Australia:

Austria:

Belgium:

  • http://www.dgdc.be: This is the official website of the Directorate General for Development Co-operation. Under "Topics" there is a link to Gender.

Canada:

Denmark:

European Commission:

Finland:

  • http://global.finland.fi/gender/ : Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Development Cooperation: Understanding Gender site. On this site you will find information about the concept of gender, and of gender analysis. You can also explore examples of what impacts gender related activities have had in existing projects and find information on current activities.

France:

Germany:

Greece:

Ireland:

Italy:

Japan:

Luxembourg:

Netherlands:

New Zealand:

Norway:

  • http://www.norden.org/lige/ligeuk97_2/2-97_04.htm:   The Norwegian government decided in June to found a new centre to further the promotion of gender equality. The new centre belongs under the Norwegian Ministry of Children and Family Affairs. The aim is to create a lively and user-friendly centre to promote gender equality in Norway.

Portugal:

Spain:

Sweden:

Switzerland:

United Kingdom:

  • http://www.dfid.gov.uk/: Department for International Development. Search Sitemap->Social Development Department->Work in detail-> Gender

United States:

2. GENDERNET Observers:

IMF:

UNDP:

UNIFEM:

World Bank:

  • http://www.worldbank.org/gender :  GenderNet. This site describes how the Bank seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development.
  • http://devdata.worldbank.org/genderstats/: GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators designed with user-friendly, menu-driven features. It offers statistical and other data in modules on several subjects. The data in each module is presented in ready-to-use format.
  • http://www.worldbank.org/gender/tools/sectoral.htm: Sectoral indicators for agriculture; health; water and sanitation; credit; and education. This section contains possible indicators, by sector, for monitoring gender-related aspects of policies/projects. As this is a new and emerging area of focus in gender-related work, the indicators available here have been gathered from various sources, internal end external, and in some cases represent work in progress that will be updated as more refined indicators become available.
  • http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/130625/ : Development Gateway: The Gender and Development page of the Development Gateway is envisioned as an Internet platform for gender and development-related resources, information, and dialogue. The objective is to enhance the effectiveness of development efforts worldwide through sharing knowledge of gender-sensitive analysis, actions and policies.
  • http://www.worldbank.org/gender/mdgworkshop/: International Workshop “Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals“, 19-20 November 2003, Washington, D.C. An International Workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals, jointly sponsored by the UN Interagency Network of Women and Gender Equality, the OECD/DAC GENDERNET and the Multilateral Development Bank Working Group on Gender.

3. Non-DAC OECD Countries:

Korea:

Mexico:

  • http://www.sre.gob.mx/:  Home Page of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Information only available in Spanish.

Turkey:

4. Others:

United Nations:

BRIDGE:

  • http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge: BRIDGE supports gender mainstreaming efforts of policymakers and practitioners by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible and diverse gender information. This is undertaken through accessible and appropriate knowledge creation, sharing, and management, in long-term collaboration involving mutual capacity-building with Southern and Northern partners.
  • http://www.ids.ac.uk/bridge/bri_bull.html: BRIDGE bulletin Gender and Development In Brief
  • http://www.siyanda.org: Siyanda is an on-line database of gender and development materials. It is also an interactive space where gender practitioners can share ideas, experiences and resources. Hosted by BRIDGE.

PART IV: International Organisations with Gender Equality pages

Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty-usa.org/women/index.html:  The Women’s Human Rights Program of AIUSA seeks to stop the particular violations of the civil and political rights that women and girls experience. Links to other women’s human rights web pages.

FAO: http://www.fao.org/gender/

ILO: http://www.ilo.org/dyn/gender/gender.home

INSTRAW: http://www.un.org/instraw:   INSTRAW-United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.

OXFAM: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/: Oxfam.

UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/girlsed/gelef.htm:   UNICEF’s web site on Girl’s education.

United Nations:

UNDP:

UNESCO:

UNHCR:

UNIFEM: 

WHO:

  • http://www.who.int/gender/en/ :   WHO-World Health Organisation’s Department of Gender and Women’s Health is charged with helping WHO’s various programs and departments undertake the challenge of integrating gender considerations into their work. It is also responsible for researching and disseminating information on neglected topics directly pertaining to women's health, such as gender-based violence against women.

World Bank:

  • http://www.worldbank.org/gender :  GenderNet. This site describes how the Bank seeks to reduce gender disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development through its programs and projects. It summarizes knowledge and experience, provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender and development.
  • http://devdata.worldbank.org/genderstats/: GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators designed with user-friendly, menu-driven features. It offers statistical and other data in modules on several subjects. The data in each module is presented in ready-to-use format.
  • http://www.worldbank.org/gender/tools/sectoral.htm: Sectoral indicators for agriculture; health; water and sanitation; credit; and education. This section contains possible indicators, by sector, for monitoring gender-related aspects of policies/projects. As this is a new and emerging area of focus in gender-related work, the indicators available here have been gathered from various sources, internal end external, and in some cases represent work in progress that will be updated as more refined indicators become available.
  • http://www.developmentgateway.org/node/130625/ : Development Gateway: The Gender and Development page of the Development Gateway is envisioned as an Internet platform for gender and development-related resources, information, and dialogue. The objective is to enhance the effectiveness of development efforts worldwide through sharing knowledge of gender-sensitive analysis, actions and policies.
  • http://www.worldbank.org/gender/mdgworkshop/: International Workshop “Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals“, 19-20 November 2003, Washington, D.C. An International Workshop on Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals, jointly sponsored by the UN Interagency Network of Women and Gender Equality, the OECD/DAC GENDERNET and the Multilateral Development Bank Working Group on Gender.

PART V: International Conventions and Declarations

Gender-Related Conventions and Declarations-International Instruments:

 

 

 

 

 

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