Gender
Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009: Who Answers to Women? Gender & Accountability
UNIFEM, 2008
This report shows that realising women’s rights and achieving the MDGs depends on strengthening accountability for commitments to women and gender equality. The report demonstrates that for women’s rights to translate into substantive improvements in their lives, and for gender equality to be realised in practice, women must be able to fully participate in public decision-making at all levels and hold those responsible to account when their rights are infringed or their needs ignored. The publication presents clear evidence that women’s empowerment and gender equality are drivers for reducing poverty, building food security, reducing maternal mortality, safeguarding the environment, and enhancing the effectiveness of aid.
Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook
World Bank, FAO, and IFAD, 2008
Women play a vital role as agricultural producers and as agents of food and nutritional security. Yet relative to men, they have less access to productive assets such as land and services such as finance and extension. A variety of constraints impinge upon their ability to participate in collective action as members of agricultural cooperative or water user associations. In both centralized and decentralized governance systems, women tend to lack political voice.
Gender inequalities result in less food being grown, less income being earned, and higher levels of poverty and food insecurity. Agriculture in low-income developing countries is a sector with exceptionally high impact in terms of its potential to reduce poverty. Yet for agricultural growth to fulfil this potential, gender disparities must be addressed and effectively reduced.
Gender Equality Now. Accelerating the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
UNIFEM, 2008
Attention to gender equality and women's empowerment are essential to enable countries and the international community to achieve the MDGs. This resource pack explores and makes recommendations on the actions needed to accelerate the achievement of the MDGs; the progress made so far and the backlogs on gender equality; and the costs of prioritizing gender equality as well as the costs of failing to do so
Gender and Landmines - From Concept to Practice
Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines - 2008
The relevance of gender has taken time to impose itself clearly to anti landmine programmers, decision-makers, implementers, donors, and stakeholders working in the area of mine action. The main treaties regulating general mine action activities (the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its additional Protocol II) are gender blind and do not explicitly discuss the different impact landmines can have on women, men, girls and boys. Moreover, mine action belongs to a traditional "masculine", technical sector, one of war and weapons, in which the relevance of gender might not appear clearly at first sight. This report, with five country profiles, examines how issues of gender might better be incorporated into mine action.
Gender and Development: Media
Oxfam, Gender and Development, Volume 15, Number 3, November 2007
This volume of "Gender and Development" journal includes 10 chapters by experts on Gender and the Media.
EC/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development and Peace
EC/UNIFEM/ITC-ILO, 2007
This brochure introduces the EC/UN Partnership on Gender Equality for Development and Peace, a joint initiative of the EC, UNIFEM and the ITC/ILO. The three-year programme (2007-2009) supports stronger action on gender equality and women's empowerment in national development processes and in cooperation programmes supported by the EC. The programme also includes a focus on effective implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1325, adopted in 2000 to mainstream gender equality and women's empowerment in responses to conflict and post-conflict situations. The programme is being implemented in 12 countries: Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Suriname, and the Ukraine.
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Gender policies for responsible fisheries. Policies to gender equity and livelihoods in small-scale fisheries
FAO, 2007
The aim of this policy brief is to: encourage policy-makers to address gender issues in fisheries; present experiences dealing with gender issues in fisheries to guide the development of gender policies; highlight strategies to improve the delivery of gender policies in small-scale and industrial fisheries and aquaculture. A holistic approach to gender analysis, focusing on gender relations throughout the fish supply chain is recommended, like the one adopted by the Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (SFLP), which incorporates local gender action planning into its mainstreaming strategy, in a framework for action that spans different organizations and institutions located at micro, meso and macro-levels. Some suggestions for the development of effective gender policy are provided in the final section of the report.
Gender and Indicators, 2007
Bridge Cutting Edge Pack, July 2007
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.
Gender Mainstreaming in Practice: A Toolkit
UNDP, May 2007
The integration of a gender perspective into programming and policy-making - Gender Mainstreaming - has become a key priority of UNDP. Towards this end, this publication integrates a gender perspective into the analysis of work, home, and public life in order to improve policy-making and programming. It reflects the work of more than a 100 specialists, who have contributed their expertise to this collection of practical tools and guidelines, examples and illustrations. 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.
Revisiting gender training - the making and remaking of gender knowledge. A global source book
Royal Tropical Institute and Oxfam GB, 2007
Revising gender training is concerned with the thinking behind gender training and education rather than with day to day practice. It explores the explicit and implicit assumptions in gender training about the nature of knowledge (epistemology), about how knowledge is imparted (pedagogy) and about knowing (cognition). The book brings together case studies and analyses at country, regional and global level to look critically behind the practice. The contributors are gender specialists from different geographical regions: India, Uganda, the Machreq/Maghreb region, South Africa and the French-speaking world. An extensive and up-to-date bibliography of international (print and online) literature on the topic is included.
Gender: The missing component of the response to climate change
FAO, 2006
Gender aspects have generally been neglected in international discussions and agreements on climate change. The authors see this as the result of a general preference for scientific and technological measures, rather than in policies which address behaviour and social differences. While poor people will face more difficulties in relation to climate change, women are generally more vulnerable to its impacts. In this brief report, the authors argue for the need to acknowledge gender differences, and the need to integrate gender in governments’ and organisations’ responses. On the basis of the key role which women have in development, these responses need to make sure that the effects of climate change do not further impoverish women.
The State of the World's Children 2007 - Women and Children: The Double Dividend of Gender Equality
UNICEF, December 2006
This report examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives - and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls. The report argues that investment in women's rights will ultimately produce a double dividend: advancing the rights of both women and children.
Women, girls, boys and men, different needs - equal opportunities
IASC Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action, December 2006
This handbook aims to provide actors in the field with guidance on gender analysis, planning and actions to ensure that the needs, contributions and capacities of women, girls, boys and men are considered in all aspects of humanitarian response. It also offers checklists to assist in monitoring gender equality programming. The guidelines focus on major cross-cutting issues and areas of work in the early response phase of emergencies. It is also useful to make sure that gender issues are included in needs assessments, contingency planning and evaluations. It can be used as a tool for mainstreaming gender as a cross-cutting issue.
Gender and Health Policy and Practice. A Global Sourcebook
KIT Publishers and Oxfam UK, November 2006
How do current efforts aimed at improving women’s health contribute to achieving the Millennium goals? This is the question addressed by this publication, which offers insight into the influence of gender roles on the health of women and men. Particular attention is paid to health needs and rights, as well as to improving equal access to healthcare. Besides case studies from Malawi, Ethiopia, Argentina, South Africa and Brazil, the book also contains an extensive bibliography of summaries of printed and online publications.
The Global Gender Gap Report 2006
World Economic Forum, 2006
This report measures the size of the gender gap in four critical areas of gender inequality, namely, economic participation, educational attainment, political empowerment and health and survival.
Gender and law. Women's rights in agriculture
FAO Legislative Study No. 76 Rev. 1 Rome, 2006
This study analyses the gender dimension of agriculture-related legislation in a selection of different countries around the world, examining the legal status of women in three key areas: rights to land and other natural resources; rights of women agricultural workers; and rights concerning women's agricultural self-employment activities, ranging from women's status in rural cooperatives to their access to credit, training and extension services.
Engaging men in gender equality: positive strategies and approaches - Overview and annotated bibliography
BRIDGE Bibliography 15, October 2006
Bibliography which provides an overview of literature, outlines strategies for change and explains the importance of involving men in development programs. Descriptions of books, papers, tools and training materials are divided into sections that cover men as partners against gender-based violence, strengthening men‚s resistance to violence and conflict, fostering constructive male involvement in sexual and reproductive health and rights, encouraging men‚s positive engagement as fathers and carers and promoting more gender equitable institutional cultures and practices within development organisations.
The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development
The World Bank, June 2006
This book is an attempt to bring the gender and development debate full circle - from a much-needed focus on empowering women to a more comprehensive gender framework that considers gender as a system that affects both women and men. The chapters in the book explore definitions of masculinity and male identities in a variety of social contexts, drawing from experiences in Latin America, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa.
Incorporating Gender into your NGO
Network Learning, May 2006
This manual explains the basic concepts and definitions on gender, followed by 'what to do and how to do it', both within and outside your organization, in order to scan all aspects with a gender sensitive eye. The separate checklist "Gender Issues in the Project Cycle" is designed to be used in conjunction with the manual.
