Development Gateway Foundation
dgCommunities: Gender and Development
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911
September 27, 2006
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1. NEW! HIGHLIGHT: : "Girl Power: The Impact of Girls' Education on
HIV And Sexual Behaviour"
2. RESOURCES
3. NEw DISCUSSION FORUM - Education is Empowerment for Women.
4. MEMBER DIRECTORY: Update Your Profile for Networking &
Collaboration
5. DISTRIBUTE YOUR CONTENT
6. VIRTUAL CONSULTATION FOR INTER-AMERICAN MINISTERIAL MEETING ON
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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dgCommunities Member Survey, Fall 2006
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You're invited to participate in our first survey of the entire
dgCommunities membership! Our aim is to obtain invaluable feedback from the
community as a whole. You are part of a worldwide practitioner community
that is well over 36,000 strong - won't you add your voice by taking
just a few minutes to complete our multiple choice survey questions at
(http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=458122624514)? We know there is
much more we can do to provide a platform that facilitates your work and
assists you in achieving a greater impact. With this survey, you can
play an integral role in the decision making process regarding
enhancements to the dgCommunities platform going forward. This is your platform
and your community. We look forward to your advice, guidance, and
suggestions! Please access the survey at
(http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=458122624514).
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1. NEW HIGHLIGHT: "Girl Power: The Impact of Girls' Education on HIV
And Sexual Behaviour"
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Girl Power: The Impact of Girls' Education on HIV And Sexual Behaviour
- This is the title of a recent publication by ActionAid International,
in its Education and HIV Series. In this systematic review of over
600 pieces of research on girls' education, sexual behaviour and HIV,
ActionAid has shown that secondary education provides African girls with
the power to make sexual choices that prevent HIV infection. The
situation is the same in many other countries as well, from India to the Far
East and in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Education gives girls power, reduces vulnerability and helps them make
more independent, confident choices about their sexual behaviour. The
report shows that schools and teachers are the most trusted sources for
young people to learn about HIV, and that school attendance ensures
greater understanding of prevention messages.
Peer group solidarity within school strengthens girls' social networks
and creates more responsible attitudes to sexual behaviour, safer sex
and HIV. Conversely, girls who drop out of school are more likely to
enter into adult sexual networks, where older partners with more
experience and power dictate the "rules" of sexual engagement.
Poverty and vulnerability to HIV are closely linked. More educated
women have better economic and social prospects and consequently have more
choices. Girls educated to secondary and tertiary levels are more
likely to wait before having sex, are much more likely to use condoms when
they do have sex, and are therefore at much less risk of contracting
HIV.
read more at http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911
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2. RESOURCES
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- India: Helping Girls Protect Themselves with Education
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/
ItemDetail.do?itemId=1072833&intcmp=911
- Educating Girls : The Best Weapon Against HIV/AIDS
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1072815?intcmp=911
- UNESCO IATT Education Events at International AIDS Conference
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1072812?intcmp=911
- From Micro Finance to Micro Change ? Integrating Health Education and
Micro Finance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1072129?intcmp=911
- Primary Education in India ? Prospect of Meeting the MDG Target
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1072289?intcmp=911
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3. NEw DISCUSSION FORUM - Education is Empowerment for Women.
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Share your views on the importance of educating girls and women as a
means to empowerment as well as freedom from subjugation, sexual slavery
and violence. The community will benefit from program case studies and
examples. Do remember that you can also upload these as resources
through "Add Content" on the home page:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911
Some Member comments:
a. ICT knowledge will empower women silently.The modern age demands
functional
power of women rather than only notional literacy.
DR.PRABIR Dutta (India) Date posted: Sep 20, 2006 01:34 AM
b. I am happy to see that women's education is part of the equation for
sustainable
development to reduce poverty. Education will empower the women of
the developing
countries and free them from all sorts of slavery they have endured
for centuries.
Stanley Chassagne (Canada) Date posted: Sep 11, 2006 05:28 PM
c. Denial of education for a girl is akin to denial for freedom;
psychologically,
economically, physical and in any sphere of life. Educating them is
freeing them,as
they will become independent and self-dependent.
John Mambambo (Zimbabwe) Date posted: Sep 11, 2006 04:46 AM
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3. NEW MEMBER DIRECTORY - UPDATE YOUR MEMBER PROFILE!
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With over 30,000 registered dgCommunities members, the Member Directory
provides a one-stop shop for key contacts and collaboration worldwide.
We invite you to take advantage of this unprecedented collaborative
tool and add your profile today!
Our new Member Directory enables you to more easily contact fellow
professionals in the international development community for expert advice,
information, and collaboration. You will be able to find development
practitioners from over 200 countries, with interests and expertise in
dozens of areas, including your own! We invite you to update your member
profile to let your colleagues in development know more about your
interests and expertise. You'll find the profiles very useful when using
the Member Directory to communicate and collaborate with fellow members
on your next program or project. From
http://www.developmentgateway.org?intcmp=911 simply click on "My
Gateway" in the upper right corner, log in, scroll down to "My Member
Profile" and click "edit this information."
Quick Start - 4 Easy Steps:
-ESTABLISH YOUR PROFILE
Let your colleagues in development know more about your interests and
expertise through your dgCommunities profile. Simply log in, go to My
Gateway, scroll down to "My Member Profile", and click "Edit this
information".
http://www.developmentgateway.org/topics/um/user/showUserAccount.do?intcmp=911
-SEARCH FOR MEMBERS
Log in to the Development Gateway, and click the Member Directory link
located in the right column on any dgCommunity home page. You can
search by: name, country, interest, expertise, organization, organization
type, or by keywords in member bios. Search Results will show you a list
of members with a link to their profiles. You can also reach the Member
Directory when you log in, go to My Gateway and click on "Add Members
to My Contacts".
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/um~user/showMemberDirectory.do?intcmp=911
-COMMUNICATE WITH MEMBERS
When viewing a member's profile, click "Contact this user". This will
open a message box in which you can type and send a message through our
message forwarding system.
-CREATE OWN CONTACT LIST OF MEMBERS
You can build a list of key contacts and form your own network of
members. Searching for members will produce a results list; you can then
select members to be added to your "My Contacts" list by clicking on the
plus sign under "Status" for each desired contact. Or, when viewing a
particular member's profile, click "Add this member to My Contacts". Your
full "My Contacts" list can be viewed when you log in, go to My
Gateway, scroll down to "My Contacts" and click "View My Contacts."
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4. DISTRIBUTE YOUR CONTENT
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Have knowledge resources you want to share with the community, such as
websites, reports or presentations? Want to raise awareness AND drive
traffic to your website? You can accomplish both of them by adding
content to the Development Gateway in dgCommunities. It's easy: simply go to
http://topics.developmentgateway.org?intcmp=911 , click on the topic
most related to your content, and click "Add Content Here" located in
the middle of the page. Links to approved content are sent by e-mail
alerts to registered members--an effective way to share knowledge and
direct traffic to your website!
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5. VIRTUAL CONSULTATION FOR INTER-AMERICAN MINISTERIAL MEETING ON
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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dgCommunities members are invited to share their views in a virtual
consultation forum with civil society and indigenous peoples sponsored by
the Government of Bolivia and the Organization of American States, and
in cooperation with the Development Gateway Foundation. The forum will
address sustainable development issues. A summary of comments will be
presented by the OAS to the First Inter-American Meeting of Ministers
and High-Level Authorities on Sustainable Development, to be held in
Bolivia on October 5-6.
To participate in the consultation in English:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/discussion/showDiscussion.do~id=1441?intcmp=911
To participate in the consultation in Spanish:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/environment/discussion/showDiscussion.do~id=1461?intcmp=911
To explore similar collaborative opportunities with the Development
Gateway, please contact us at partners@dgfoundation.org
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DID YOU KNOW??
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As a member of the dgCommunity on Gender and Development you can share
your knowledge resources (e.g., websites, papers, reports,
presentations, images, news, events, etc) in just about any format including
streaming audio and video. Each resource will be described on a unique
interactive page that will acknowledge you as the contributor and link to
your profile. To view full text of knowledge resources, users will follow
links to host websites, which will benefit from increased traffic from
the Development Gateway community!
Simply click on the "Add content here" hyperlink at:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/
Contribute.do~flag=url~from=SampleLayout?intcmp=911
Thank you!
Anuradha Bhattacharjee
Email: gender@dgfoundation.org
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911
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