Other resources
The Local-to-Local Dialogue Resource Manual: A Guide for Grassroots Women-Led Engagement with Local Government and Decision Makers
Huairou Commission, 2011
This is a manual for grassroots women-led engagement with local government and decision makers. It combines collective knowledge, evolved from nearly a decade of experiences around the world, into a series of practical tools and locally adaptable strategies for initiating and engaging in Local-to-Local (L2L) Dialogues. The manual will guide grassroots women's groups in negotiating a wide spectrum of development issues that affect grassroots women and their communities.
Progress of the World’s Women 2011–2012: In Pursuit of Justice
UN Women, 2011
This report shows that where laws and justice systems work well, they can provide an essential mechanism for women to realize their human rights. However, it also underscores the fact that, despite widespread guarantees of equality, the reality for many millions of women is that justice remains out of reach. The report highlights the practical barriers that women – particularly the poorest and most excluded – face in negotiating justice systems and the innovative approaches that governments and civil society are pioneering to overcome them. It explores the ways in which women are reconciling guarantees of their rights with the realities of living within plural legal systems. And it highlights the severe challenges that women face in accessing justice in the aftermath of conflict, as well as the enormous opportunities for change that can emerge in these most difficult times.
Women’s and Children’s Rights: Making the Connection
UNICEF and UNFPA, 2011
This publication makes a case for linking the human rights of women to those of children. Today, these rights are still treated in an isolated manner, while there are actually practical arguments for considering them together, in particular because many human rights violations against women directly affect children and vice versa. Linking them together would support efforts to promote the human rights of adolescent girls, to eliminate child marriage, to prevent the spread of HIV and to reduce maternal mortality.
State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples: Focus on Women’s Rights
Minority Rights Group International, July 2011
This year’s edition of State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples presents an overview of the situation of minority and indigenous women today, and includes:
- Discussions of gender-based violence and armed conflict, including the violence that indigenous and minority women experience within their own communities, and the difficulties that they face in accessing justice and support from outside.
- Interviews and special reports on trafficking, intersectional discrimination, land seizures and women’s political representation.
- Overviews of the human rights situation of minorities and indigenous peoples in every major world region.
- ‘Peoples under Threat 2011’ – MRG’s unique statistical analysis and ranking of countries.
The Girl Effect - The unique potential of 250 million adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world
The Girl Effect is a movement driven by girl champions around the globe. The Nike Foundation created the Girl Effect with critical financial and intellectual contributions by the NoVo Foundation and Nike Inc. and in collaboration with key partners such as the United Nations Foundation and the Coalition for Adolescent Girls.
Women. Ink. catalogue of books and training resources on women and development
IWTC, 2007
Featuring over 70 new books from women's organizations and mainstream university and small presses worldwide, this catalogue is a "must have" for academics, activists and development practitioners who want to keep current on new thinking in the field of women, gender and development. Women, Ink. is a project of the International Women's Tribune Centre and is supported by the Swiss Development Corporation.
Where is the money for women's rights? Assessing the resources and the role of donors in the promotion of women's rights and the support of women's rights organizations
AWID, February 2006
It seems that there are too few interested funders, with too little money, to support existing women's rights organizations and initiatives. Is it that women's rights groups are not bold enough in their fundraising strategies? Is it that donors simply don't understand the urgency and importance of this work? What has really been happening in terms of funding for women's rights organizations in the last ten years and what have been the driving forces behind those trends? This report is the result of an action research initiative launched by AWID to explore precisely those questions and to give insights into possible strategies for changing the existing funding landscape so that more resources are made available to women's rights organizations.
Women's Fundraising Handbook
Global Fund for Women, 2005
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 developing countries. The handbook captures the essence of the Global Fund's Women, Money, and Empowerment workshops, which were given for activists at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.
New global Partnership seeks major reductions in maternal and child deaths
Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health - September 2005
Millions of women and children worldwide will enjoy a better chance of survival thanks to a new global initiative announced at an official side event of the 2005 World Summit. The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health will mobilize global and local commitment and action to reduce deaths among mothers and children, promote universal coverage of essential interventions, and advocate for increased resources for these efforts.
The UN partners involved in the new initiative include: the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF); the World Health Organization (WHO); and the World Bank.
Filling the data gap - Gender-sensitive statistics for agricultural development
FAO, November 2003
During the last 20 years, information on rural women has increased significantly, but its validity and relevance are still questioned, as is its usefulness in decision-making and planning. The main purpose of this publication is to sensitise policy-makers to the benefits that sex-disaggregated information can bring to policy-making and - as the main recipients and seekers of such information - move them to action at the national level.
