Siyanda Update: Funding for Gender Equality, Issue No. 62, February 2008
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I. Special Feature: Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and 
Annotated Bibliography – now translated into both French and Spanish
II. Quick Guide: Funding for Gender Equality
III. Country Focus: Francophone Resources and Websites
IV. Experts' and Consultants' Database: gender practitioners who have 
published writings in French
V. Latest Additions: including monitoring and evaluation of sports 
projects for girls, South Asian women's perspectives on climate change 
adaptation, and reproductive health issues during the conflict in the 
Philippines.
VI. Contribute section: share news, resources, opportunities and 
perspectives

**Tip: you can quickly find multilingual resources in the Siyanda 
database by typing the language name in the Search box, then clicking on 
the Go! button. For example, type "French" for French resources**


I. Special Feature: Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and 
Annotated Bibliography – now in both French and Spanish
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- Women and Girls Living with HIV/AIDS: Overview and Annotated 
Bibliography, Esplen, E. and The International Community of Women Living 
with HIV/AIDS (ICW), February 2007
Women's social, economic, and legal disadvantage is exacerbated by a 
positive HIV status, and vice versa. This report - consisting of an 
overview and annotated bibliography - considers the specific challenges 
faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS. Policy-makers 
must take their insights seriously.

This resource has now been translated into French and Spanish. See:
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/esplen_women_hiv.htm?em=0802&tag=SP

BRIDGE worked in collaboration with the International Community of Women 
Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) to produce this report. ICW are the only 
international network run for and by HIV positive women. You can find 
out more about their work at:
http://www.icw.org/


II. Quick Guide: Funding for Gender Equality
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The following resources have been selected from 35 which have been 
summarised and included in the Siyanda database:

- Gender Equality, the New Aid Environment and Civil Society 
Organisations: a Research Project of the UK Gender and Development 
Network, Collinson, H., Derbyshire, H., Fernández Schmidt, B. and 
Wallace, T., January 2008
Many women's organisations and those focused on challenging gender 
inequality feel threatened by changes in aid structures. This report 
discusses research conducted into views and experiences of UK 
organisations and their international partners on these issues.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/GADN_new_aid_environment.htm?em=0802&tag=QG

- The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Aid 
Effectiveness and Women's Rights Series, Association for Women's Rights 
in Development (AWID), November 2007
This set of primer documents is intended to help women's rights 
advocates and other actors to understand the relevance of the Paris 
Declaration process and to engage in it.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/AWID_aid_effectiveness.htm?em=0802&tag=QG

- Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Paradoxes 
and Possibilities, UNDAW, September 2007
How can increased implementation of gender equality commitments be 
facilitated through financial measures? This paper explores this question.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNDAW_paradoxes_possibilities.htm?em=0802&tag=QG

- Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women: Issues, 
Findings and Recommendations from an Online Discussion, UNDAW, August 2007
Findings and recommendations of a four-week e-discussion on financing 
for gender equality, run by the United Nations Division for the 
Advancement of Women (UNDAW).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/UNDAW_financing_discussion.htm?em=0802&tag=QG

- The Second Fundher Report: Financial Sustainability for Women’s 
Movements Worldwide, AWID, June 2007
How can we mobilise new resources to advance women's rights worldwide? 
The Association for Women's Rights in Development's (AWID) 'Second 
Fundher Report' analyses funding trends around women's rights work, 
provides information on donors who fund this work, and offers practical 
fundraising guidelines.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/AWID_financial_sustainability.htm?em=0802&tag=QG

- Women Won't Wait Campaign, Show Us The Money: Is Violence Against 
Women on the HIV&AIDS Donor Agenda?, Action Aid, January 2007
The report is the first step in an initiative by the coalition 'Women 
Won't Wait' to monitor the commitments of international agencies and 
national governments to address gender-based violence - including within 
the context of HIV and AIDS - at the level of policies, programming and 
funding.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/actionaid_women_wont_wait.htm?em=0802&tag=QG

- Gender Equality and Aid Delivery: What has Changed in Development 
Co-operation Agencies since 1999?, Organisation for Economic 
Co-operation and Development (OECD), January 2007
This report examines practices and institutional approaches to gender 
equality and women's empowerment in the Organisation for Economic 
Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee 
(DAC) members' development co operation agencies.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/OECD_change_since_1999.htm?em=0802&tag=QG


You can find additional resources related to funding for gender equality 
in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=funding08&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0802&tag=QG

Sexuality and Poverty will be the next Quick Guide theme, in March 2008. 
Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible 
inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0802&tag=CS

Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm?em=0802&tag=QG


III. Country Focus: Francophone Resources and Websites
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The following selection has been produced from 40 resources added to the 
Siyanda database, each of which is summarised in both English and 
French. They are also available in the following BRIDGE reports:

:- 20 Key Gender Websites in French, Brambilla, P. and Genre en Action, 2006
:- 20 Key Francophone Resources on Gender: an Annotated Bibliography, 
Brambilla, P. and Genre en Action, 2006
See: http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/bibliographies.htm#16

- Website: Genre en action (in French)
This interactive portal for French speakers aims to make visible 
different experiences and thinking on gender mainstreaming in the South 
and the North, across various sectors.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Website_genre_en_action.htm?em=0802&tag=CF

- Women's Perspectives on Globalisation: Critical Approaches (in 
French), Karthala, January 2006
This collection of articles aims to provide the francophone public with 
a critical feminist perspective on the policies and practices of 
development cooperation among international institutions.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Bisilliat_globalisation_perspectives.htm?em=0802&tag=CF

- Website: Famafrique (in French)
Famafrique has been created as part of the 'Women's Information Highways 
in French-speaking Africa' project, which Enda Tiers Monde has 
established to coordinate networks, redistributing information and 
resources to and from sub-regions of Francophone Africa and the rest of 
the world.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Website_Famafrique.htm?em=0802&tag=CF

- Website: Anaruz (in French and Arabic)
Anaruz is the internet portal of the National Network of Centres for 
Women Victims of Violence in Morocco. It provides information, news, 
personal testimonies and statistics, as well as contact details for 
network member organisations.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Website_anaruz.htm?em=0802&tag=CF

- The Gender Digital Divide in Francophone Africa: a Worrying Truth (in 
French), Enda Tiers Mond, January 2005
This research highlights weak links between Information and 
Communications Technologies (ICTs), gender equality and sustainable 
development policy in West Africa, and calls for an immediate policy 
response to redress gender disparities.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Mottin-Sylla_digital_divide.htm?em=0802&tag=CF

- Gender, Power and Social Justice (in French), L’Harmattan, February 2003
This collection of articles on the theme of gender and empowerment 
focuses on the feminist political theories put forward in debates about 
power, justice and governance.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/Verschuur_power_justice.htm?em=0802&tag=CF


You can find additional Francophone resources in Siyanda at:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/results_adv.cfm?Keywords=french_resources08%20OR%20french_websites08&Subject=0&Donor=0&Langu=E&StartRow=1&em=0802&tag=CF

and network with experts and practitioners who are working in the region:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?Lang=french&em=0802&tag=CF

Kosovo will be the next Country Focus, in March 2008. Users are invited 
to suggest resources on this country for possible inclusion in the 
database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0802&tag=CS

Please also visit the Country Focus archive section:
http://www.siyanda.org/country_focus.htm?em=0802&tag=CF


IV. Resources from the Experts' and Consultants' Database: A selection 
of published work from Siyanda Experts writing in French.
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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 experts who have written publications 
in French (see English title translations in brackets):

- Renforcement de la dimension Genre dans développement local. Rôle des 
femmes dans le processus décisionnel (Strengthening the Gender 
Dimensions of Local Development. Women's Role in Decision-Making 
Processes), Traore-Fernandez, A,. 2003
- Evaluation Finale du Programme National au Senegal sur l'Elimination 
des Pires Formes du Travail (Final Evaluation of the Senegalese National 
Programme towards the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Labour), Brand, 
A. 2002
- L'Integration de la femme dans le developpement rural (Integrating 
Women into Rural Development), Kouassi, Y. E. H., 2002
- Femmes Entrepreneurs au Bénin : Stratégie d'Organisation; Impact 
Economique et Social (Female Entrepreneurs in Benin: Strategies for 
Organising, and for Economic and Social Impact), Onibon Doubogan, Y., 2001
- Genre et le Cycle de Projet. L'utilisation des méthodiques pour 
l'intégration de l'aspect genre dans le cycle de projets (Gender and the 
Project Life-Cycle. Using Methods for Integrating Gender Perspectives in 
Project Cycles), Caubergs, L. 2000
- Promotion de la Jeune Fille dans les Enseignements Primaires 
Secondaires; Techniques; Professionnelles et Artisanales au TOGO 
(Promoting Young Girls in Primary and Secondary Education: Professional 
and Practical Techniques from Togo), Ba, K., no date

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=0802&tag=EX

The Siyanda Gender Experts' and Consultants' Database, with almost 1,300 
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.

- Enter your details in the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm?em=0802&tag=EX

- Or edit your existing profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm?em=0802&tag=EX (using your 
user name and password)

The database is also an excellent resource for those seeking experts for 
gender-focussed consultancies.

- Search the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/?em=0802&tag=EX


V. Other New Resources in Siyanda:
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- Tunaweza (Kiswahili: we can do it!): Measuring the Impact of Sport on 
Girls’ Life Skills, Herschman, A and Forde, S., January 2008
- 'We Know What We Need!' South Asian Women Speak Out On Climate Change 
Adaptation, Mitchell, T., Tanner, T. and Lussier, K., December 2007
- Realising Sexual Rights, Williams, F. with Jolly, S. and Cornwall, A, 
October 2007
- Gender Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa, Nyamu-Musembi, C, January 2007
- Conflict, State Fragility and Women's Reproductive Health: The Case of 
Basilan, Philippines, Magcalen-Fernandez, E., November 2006

You can locate more new resources added to the Siyanda Database here: 
http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm?em=0802&tag=LA, or through the 
Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/?em=0802&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).


VII. 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=0802&tag=CS

Submit your publications for inclusion in our database, or suggest other 
resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/?em=0802&tag=CS

Post your short pieces of work in the Users' Corner:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120030204122635&em=0802&tag=CS 



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Adrian Bannister
Information & Networking Officer
BRIDGE - Gender and Development
The Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
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