WOMEN, INK. BOOKLINK #71
August 2007
Joeyta Bose
1. Financing Gender Equality:
Commonwealth Perspectives 2007 2. Everywhere/Nowhere 3. Politics of the
Possible-Gender Mainstreaming and Organizational Change:
4. Gender Equality and Sexual
Exploitation 5. Feminisms in Development Visit our website at
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for further information and to buy any of the featured
titles. ***Forthcoming: End
September**** Financing Gender Equality:
Commonwealth Perspectives 2007 Aimed at gender ministers, this
collection of specially commissioned articles from
world-renowned experts explores current trends in gender
and addresses the 8th Commonwealth Women's Affairs
Ministers Meeting theme of 'Financing Gender Equality for
Development and Democracy'. It provides an account of
government achievements in promoting gender equality and
discusses key areas highlighted in the 2005-2015
Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality. The plan
reinforces the Commonwealths commitment to the Millennium
Development Goals and presents the challenges of
financing gender equality for development and improving
women's access to finance so as to make a difference for
women entrepreneurs. 2006. 184 pages. ISBN 0 85598 571
2. WE836. US $27.15. Everywhere/Nowhere Reports on gender mainstreaming
within development agencies tend to concentrate on
technical details like the number of female staff hired
or the amount of money set aside for gender-related
activities, with little attention to the political
changes necessary to transform the mainstream. The
emphasis on technical solutions has resulted in limited
impact within organizations and minimal changes to
unequal gender relations. However, development agencies
are finding innovative and subtle strategies to transform
the mainstream through networking, coalition-building,
and leadership initiatives. This book examines these
solutions and approaches to gender mainstreaming through
an analysis of the challenges and opportunities
development agencies have faced as they have attempted to
translate gender mainstreaming policies into practice.
2007. 217 pages. ISBN
978-1-56549-238-7. WE851. $24.95 Politics of the Possible-Gender
Mainstreaming and Organizational Change: What actually happens to
organizations during gender and organizational change
endeavors? This book takes an in-depth look at the
experiences of seven mixed-gender organizations in the
Middle East and South Asia that undertook collective
learning and organizational change to promote gender
equality through mainstreaming within their
organizations. A key motivation for writing this book was
to bring in the experiences and voices from the field to
shed light on how abstract issues like gender equality
and gender mainstreaming could be translated into
practice and to illuminate the many difficulties,
negotiations and compromises that are involved in this
sensitive and problematic transition. In fulfilling this
goal, the authors show how organizational change is an
integral part of gender mainstreaming processes.
2006. 168 pages. ISBN 085598570-4.
WE835. $27.15 Gender Equality and Sexual
Exploitation This participatory training manual
provides a structured, interactive learning system for
trainers who wish to conduct workshops about gender
equality, mainstreaming in NGOs and preventing sexual
exploitation and abuse. Consisting of a printed manual
and a CD-ROM, the pack is comprehensive in scope and
includes facilitator's notes, handouts, flip chart
headings, PowerPoint slides and other background
information. The CD contains the entire English-language
text, with translations in French, Spanish, and
Portuguese. The section introducing gender equality is
meant to be delivered at a four-hour session, the section
on mainstreaming gender equality for an eight-hour
session and the one on preventing sexual exploitation and
abuse is supposed to be a half-day or full-day session,
as appropriate. WE849. 233 pages. ISBN
0-85598-568-2. WE849. $31.00 Feminisms in Development Though feminism's emphasis on
social transformation makes it fundamental to development
studies, the relationship between the two disciplines has
frequently been troubled. This collection of essays
explores the contested relationship between feminisms and
development and the challenges for reasserting feminist
engagement with development as a political project. At
present, the way in which many development institutions
function often undermines feminist intent through
bureaucratic structures and unequal power quotients.
Moreover, the intractability of inequalities and
injustice in most countries has presented feminists with
enormous challenges. In this collection, leading feminist
thinkers from the North and South argue for the
importance of what 'feminisms' have to say to
development. This fascinating and complex collection
deconstructs the myths and fables that riddle the gender
and development field, asks difficult questions and sheds
light on the neglected dimensions of gender and
development. 2007. 253 pages. ISBN
978-1-84277-819-7. WE 850. $29.95 ********************************************************************* RESOURCES Free resources on Gender and
Development that are available over the
Internet: 1. Women's Fundraising
Handbook 2. Gender Mainstreaming in
Practice: A Toolkit 3. Where is the Money for
Women's Rights? 4. BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack:
Gender & Indicators Gender-sensitive measurements are
critical for enabling better planning and actions by
gender and non-gender specialists, and for holding
institutions accountable to their commitments on gender.
This Cutting Edge Pack, which includes a report, a
'brief' and a collection of resources, examines
conceptual and methodological approaches to gender and
measurements of change. It focuses on current debates and
good practice from the grassroots to the international
level - with particular attention to gender-sensitive
indicators - and discusses how to measure and explores
the politics behind this process. The report considers
how to measure the impact of gender mainstreaming, both
at the level of internal organisational change and at the
level of programming practice. 5. Gender research
methodologies Orders made through
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OR CONCERNS, WRITE TO joey@womenink.orgThis month, we are featuring
an exciting array of titles and additional resources,
from different regional perspectives, in the area of
Gender and Development. The new titles for this month
are:
Gender Mainstreaming in Development
Agencies
Experiences from the Field
A Pick-Up-And-Go Training Pack
Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges
Commonwealth Secretariat
Gender Mainstreaming in Development Agencies
Rebecca Tiessen
Experiences from the Field
Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, Gerard Steehouwer, &
Franz Wong
A Pick-Up-And-Go Training Pack
Edited by Andrew Baker
Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges
Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison & Ann
Whitehead
Global Fund for Women
Empowered as some women are about raising difficult
issues in their societies, when it comes to raising money
women feel disempowered. This handbook, written by Global
Fund staff, explores key ideas about raising money to
fund women's rights work. It is especially designed for
first-time fundraisers and for women's groups in the
Global South. User-friendly and accessible, the handbook
covers topics like raising money for a small or startup
project, organizations that give to women's groups and
ideas for raising money.
Get your own copy in English, French and Spanish:
http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/content/view/180/142/
United Nations Development Program
Combining a comprehensive understanding of gender
mainstreaming and detailed guidance on how gender
mainstreaming can be put into practice, this two-part
toolkit incorporates guidelines, case studies, examples,
suggestions, and region-specific information. A section
on the 10 steps for mainstreaming gender into the
policy-making process describes the gender mainstreaming
process, as divided into 10 stages that roughly
correspond to the ìlife cycle of a policy or a
project. The toolkit also includes a detailed guide to
gender analysis, with specific information on the Gender
Impact Assessments, the most common form of gender
analysis; a glossary of terms; and gender briefs on
mainstreaming in different sectors and regions. The
toolkit targets public policy and development
practitioners with varying levels of experience in this
area; it also serves as a useful resource for NGOs and
advocacy groups, students, project staff, gender
specialists, and consultants.
Download the kit in English and Russian from:
http://europeandcis.undp.org/?menu=p_cms/show&
content_id=6D8DE77F-F203-1EE9-B2E5652990E8B4B9
Association for Women in Development (AWID)
A selection of session summaries from AWID's Money &
Movements meeting, these notes reflect the impressions
and concerns relating to funding from participants
involved in regional and issue-based sessions. Topics
include communication strategies for stronger
organizations and movements; what we need to understand
and influence Official Development Assistance and new aid
modalities? conflict, access to justice and peace
building considerations for feminist resource
mobilization; potential and challenges of tapping
corporate funding; the role of women's funds in
strengthening and building movements; women's sexual and
reproductive rights and HIV/AIDS considerations for
feminist resource mobilization; the power of individual
donor giving; and the new UN Agency for women. Regional
pieces from meetings in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America
and the Caribbean, United States and Canada and Europe
explore feminist resource mobilization and
movement-building.
Available in English, French and Spanish:
http://www.awid.org/go.php?pg=mm_summaries
Gender Sensitive Measurements of Change
A. Moser; E. Esplen; E. Bell
Find out more:
http://www.eldis.org/go/topics/resource-guides/
gender&id=32491&type=Document
United Nations International Research and Training
Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
Gender research methodologies include the theories and
methods employed to conduct gender research or
gender-sensitive research that takes into account the
differing needs and interests of women and men and their
unequal representation through specific design, sampling,
analysis and other criteria. It provides an overview of
three common gender research methodologies in the
development field: the gender analysis approach,
participatory research methodologies, and the
rights-based approach. Each overview includes a
description; a list of key texts and critiques; and a
list of selected international organizations that have
used the approach, either for research or in policy and
program development.
For further information, please visit
http://www.un-instraw.org/en/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1054
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