Siyanda Update: Gender, Indicators and Measurements of Change, Issue No. 
56, July 2007
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I. Special Feature: New BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: Gender and Indicators
II. Quick Guide: Gender, Indicators and Measurements of Change
III. Country Focus: Palestine
IV. Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection of published work 
from Siyanda Experts with research experience in Institutionalising Gender
V. Latest Additions, including: analysing the evidence for a 
'feminisation of poverty', a holistic programme for out-of-school 
adolescent girls in Egypt, a review of changes in gender focused aid 
modalities, and the UN 2006 Millennium Development Goals review report
Vi. Contribute section: share news, resources, opportunities and 
perspectives

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database by typing the language name in the Search box, then clicking on 
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I. Special Feature: New BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack: Gender and Indicators
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What does a world without gender inequality look like? Realising this 
vision requires inspiring and mobilising social change. But what would 
indicate we are on the right track - and how will we know when we get 
there? Gender-sensitive indicators and other measurements of change are 
critical - for building the case for taking gender (in)equality 
seriously, for enabling better planning and actions, and for holding 
institutions accountable for their commitments on gender.

This Cutting Edge Pack hopes to inspire thinking on these questions - 
with an Overview Report outlining key issues, a Supporting Resources 
Collection providing summaries of key texts, tools, case studies and 
contacts of relevant organisations, and a Gender and Development In 
Brief newsletter with three short articles on the theme. See:
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_CEP.html#Indicators

The full resource will soon be available online in French.

Gender and Development In Brief is available in English, French and 
Spanish online and in paper copy from BRIDGE.


II. Quick Guide: Gender, Indicators and Measurements of Change
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The following resources are a selection from over 60 resources added to 
the Siyanda database on Gender, Indicators and Measurements of Change:

International and Regional Databases of Gender Statistics, BRIDGE, July 2007
This document contains an annotated list of international and regional 
gender statistics databases. It has been extracted and amended from the 
BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Indicators.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/BRIDGE_gender_statistics.htm?em=0707&tag=QG

ILO Participatory Gender Audit (in English, French and Spanish), 
International Labour Organization (ILO), January 2007
This ILO Gender Audit based on participatory approaches assesses whether 
internal practices and systems for gender mainstreaming are effective 
and whether they are being followed.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ILO_audit.htm?em=0707&tag=QG

Uncounted and Discounted: a Secondary Data Research Project on Violence 
against Women in Afghanistan, United Nations Development Fund for Women 
(UNIFEM), May 2006
This research report discusses the limited availability of information 
on cases of violence against women in Afghanistan and makes 
recommendations for how to improve the collection and sharing of such data.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNIFEM_afghanistan_vaw.htm?em=0707&tag=QG

Engendering Conflict Early Warning: Lessons from UNIFEM’s Solomon 
Islands Gendered Conflict Early Warning Project, Moser, A., January 2006
A case-study from the Solomon Islands illustrates how gender-sensitive 
conflict early warning indicators can be developed and implemented, in 
collaboration with local organisations.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNIFEM_solomon_conflict.htm?em=0707&tag=QG

Special Issue: Revisiting the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and 
Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), Klasen, S. (ed.), January 2006
A special issue of the Journal of Human Development examines the impact 
of the GDI and GEM, identifies their conceptual and empirical 
weaknesses, and suggests possible modifications.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Klasen_GDI_GEM.htm?em=0707&tag=QG

An Introduction to Gender Audit Methodology: its Design and 
Implementation in DFID Malawi, Moser, C., May 2005
This background paper outlines the methodology used during an audit of 
the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) gender equality 
and mainstreaming work in Malawi.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Moser_gender_audit.htm?em=0707&tag=QG

Positive Women Monitoring Change: A Monitoring Tool on Access to Care, 
Treatment and Support Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and 
Violence Against Women, The International Community of Women Living with 
HIV/AIDS (ICW) and The Support to International Partnership Against AIDS 
in Africa Programme, May 2005
Fed up with being approached by researchers but never seeing the 
results, HIV positive women in Lesotho and Swaziland devised this tool 
that they themselves could use with other HIV positive women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ICW_monitoring_care.htm?em=0707&tag=QG

En Route to Equality: A Gender Review of National MDG Reports 2005, 
Menon-Sen, K., January 2005
This gender review of national Millennium Development Goal reports 
provides practical suggestions for effective mainstreaming of gender 
concerns and tracking of progress under each Goal.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Menon-Sen_mdg.htm?em=0707&tag=QG


You can find additional resources related to indicators and measurements 
of change in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=indicators07&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0707&tag=QG

Gender and Disability will be the next Quick Guide theme, in August 
2007. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible 
inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0707&tag=CS

Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm?em=0707&tag=QG


III. Country Focus: Palestine
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Women's Health in The Village of Rihiyya: Political, Economic and Social 
Limitations, April 2007
This paper outlines the main health problems and health needs of women 
in Rihiyya village in Hebron.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/PHR_Rihiyya_Health.htm?em=0707&tag=CF

Gender Profile of the Conflict in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, 
January 2007
What is the impact of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on women in 
Palestine?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNIFEM_profile_palestine.htm?em=0707&tag=CF

Palestinian Women: Is There A Unitary Conception of Rights? Rights 
through The Eyes of Palestinian Women, Kjøstvedt, H., January 2006
This paper asks “ordinary” Palestinian women for their views on women's 
rights.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Kjostvedt_palestine_rights_women.htm?em=0707&tag=CF 


Israel and the Occupied Territories: Conflict, Occupation and 
Patriarchy: Women Carry the Burden (in English, Arabic, Spanish and 
French), Amnesty International, March 2005
This report discusses the impact of occupation on Palestinian women in 
relation to checkpoints, discriminatory laws, detention, destruction of 
property, 'honour' killings, violence against women and Palestinian 
women as perpetrators of violence.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Amnesty_occupied_territorries.htm?em=0707&tag=CF 


Integration of The Human Rights of Women and The Gender Perspective: 
Violence Against Women – Mission to Occupied Palestinian Territory (in 
English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian And Spanish), Ertϋrk, Y., 
February 2005
This report highlights how conflict and occupation combine with gender 
inequality to produce multiple forms of violence against Palestinian women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Erturk_integration_rights.htm?em=0707&tag=CF


You can find additional resources in Siyanda about Palestine at: 
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=Palestine&em=0707&tag=CF 

and network with Palestinian experts and practitioners at:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=Palestine&em=0707&tag=CF

Myanmar will be the next Country Focus, in August 2007. Users are 
invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the 
database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0707&tag=CS

Please also visit the Country Focus archive section:
http://www.siyanda.org/country_focus.htm?em=0707&tag=CF


IV. Resources from the Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection 
of published work from Siyanda Experts with experience in using Gender 
Indicators
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The Experts' and Consultants' Database contains names, contact details 
and areas of expertise of people working on gender specific issues 
worldwide, and includes some of their publications. The following 
resources have been selected from over 220 experts who have a specialist 
interest in impact analysis and evaluation:

- Gender and the MDGs is Zimbabwe, 2005, Neseni, N.
- Socio-economic and Gender-sensitive Indicators in the Management of 
Natural Resources, 2003, Torkelsson, Å.
- Justice Indicators 2003, Alvarez, P.
- Overview of Quality of Care in Reproductive Health: Definitions and 
Measurements of Quality; a policy brief, July 2002, Yinger, N. et al
- Qualitative and Quantitative Indicators for the Monitoring and 
Evaluation of the ILO Gender Mainstreaming Strategy, 2000, Bastia, T.
- Empowerment Indicators of CASHE Project in West Bengal, India, (no 
date), Kumar Roy, A.

For further details on these publications, copy and paste or type the 
author's last name into either the Name or Search Words field on the 
Experts' and Consultants' search page:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/?em=0707&tag=EX

- View the latest consultants:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/latest.cfm?em=0707&tag=EX
- Join the list:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm?em=0707&tag=EX
- Search the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/?em=0707&tag=EX
- Edit your existing profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm?em=0707&tag=EX (using your 
user name and password)

The Siyanda Gender Experts' and Consultants' Database, with over 1200 
profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting practitioners, 
researchers, activists, students and experts with like-minded 
colleagues, persons working on similar themes, or in the same 
geographical location. It is also an excellent resource for those 
seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies.


V. Latest additions to the Siyanda Database
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- Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the 'Feminisation of 
Poverty' in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Chant, S., May 2007
- Providing New Opportunities to Adolescent Girls in Socially 
Conservative Settings:The Ishraq Program in Rural Upper Egypt, Brady, 
M., Assaad, R., Ibrahim, B., Salem, A., Salem, R. & Zibani, N., May 2007
- Gender Equality and Aid Delivery: What has Changed in Development 
Co-operation Agencies since 1999?, Mason Oppenheim, K., January 2007
- The Millennium Development Goals Report 2006, United Nations (UN), 
June 2006
- Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Capacity Building Guide, The 
International Labour Organisation (ILO), January 2006

You can locate more Latest Additions to the Siyanda Database here: 
http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm?em=0707&tag=LA, or through the 
Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/?em=0707&tag=SS 
(copy and paste the title without characters such as ":" ";" and "-" or 
copy and paste the author's last name into the Search box).


VI. Contribute section
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Share your news, resources, opportunities and perspectives in the 
following ways:

Post your announcements, information requests, training and funding 
opportunities:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/?em=0707&tag=CS

Submit your publications for inclusion in our database, or suggest other 
resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0707&tag=CS

Post your short pieces of work in the Users' Corner:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635&em=0707&tag=CS 



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BRIDGE - Gender and Development
The Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
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