Gender and Development Gateway - 12 dic. 06

Development Gateway Foundation dgCommunities:  Gender and Development http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911 December 12, 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.   NEW! HIGHLIGHT: Empowerment of Youth Must Be "Equal Empowerment" for Men and Women. 2.   RESOURCES 3.   NEW dgSPECIAL REPORT LAUNCHED 4.   NEw DISCUSSION FORUM 5.   MEMBER DIRECTORY: Update Your Profile for Networking & Collaboration 6.   DISTRIBUTE YOUR CONTENT 7.   VIRTUAL CONSULTATION FOR INTER-AMERICAN MINISTERIAL MEETING ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1.  NEW HIGHLIGHT: Empowerment of Youth Must Be "Equal Empowerment" for Men and Women.    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The World Bank's Development Report 2007 discusses the need to focus on the empowerment of the "next generation" - for governments to build systems and infrastructure which increase access to health, education, capacity building, employment, sustainable development  and participation in governance. Unfortunately - as the figures of maternal deaths, gender violence and the increasing feminization of HIV/AIDS corroborate - the concern for empowerment and enablement for young women in many countries of the world is not the same as that for young men. The Millennium Development Goal No. 3 is "Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women." The declaration of the International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo (ICPD), in 1994, puts rights and choices at the center of reproductive health and population policy over a 20-year program. Yet, the world over, with just a couple of months to go before 2007 is ushered in  - women are still fighting for equal access to education, food, health, employment, and reproductive rights.   For women to reach empowerment - governments and the donor community need to follow a multi-faceted approach which provides equality and equal rights in all aspects of a women's life.  Sex selection abortion and female genital mutilation violate women's fundamental human rights - just as much as domestic violence and rape, trafficking, lack of representation in government, and discrimination in workplace policies.  Empowerment for youth can only be effective when the scales of opportunities are equally balanced for both the sexes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.  RESOURCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -  Girl-Child Network Trust - Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe    http://topics.developmentgateway.org/poverty/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1081003&intcmp=911 -  World Education Ambassadors' Girls' Scholarship Program (AGSP)    http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1082225?intcmp=911 -  World Education - Girls' and Women's Education Initiative    http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1082212?intcmp=911 -  UNFPA Report - State of the World Population 2005    http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1082201?intcmp=911 -  United Nations Women Watch    http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1082155?intcmp=911 -  Vision of Young Women and Men for Gender Equality (17 January-6 February 2005)    http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1082144?intcmp=911 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3.  NEW dgSPECIAL REPORT LAUNCHED ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW dgSPECIAL REPORT LAUNCHED: 'Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World' The new dgSpecial Report 'Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World' has launched.  With 1.3 billion young people between the ages of 12 and 24 in the developing world, the Report builds on the claim that a window of opportunity is now open for developing countries to adopt policies for long-term benefit. The Report includes interviews with policy-makers and youth leaders, as well as results of the DG survey, where key issues for youth are discussed.  Because ICT will play an important role in the lives of this generation, the Report also highlights the winner and finalists of the 2006 Development Gateway Award, focused this year on ICT projects that empower youth.  Read 'Empowering the Next Generation: Youth in the Developing World' at http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/youth?intcmp=911 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4.   NEw DISCUSSION FORUM: The Feminization of HIV/AIDS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Feminization of AIDS is an article written by  Marielena Zuniga (http://www.iwhc.org/resources/soroptimist041504.cfm) "She is from Mexico. Poverty forces her into domestic labor at age 13. One night she is raped by her employer's drug-addicted son. But she is blamed for the attack and fired. Her family will not take her back and she is forced into commercial sex work. Today, at 14, she is HIV-positive. She is from India. She is 18-years-old when she is raped by an older man. Forced to marry him, she lives with his family as is the custom in her country. She soon discovers he is HIV-positive and that he has infected her. But her husband's family blames her, not him. He dies. They throw her out of the house. With no money, job or education, she is forced to survive in any way she can. She is from Ethiopia. Drought and famine hit her rural village and her husband leaves to find work in one of the larger cities. He is not monogamous. During his visits home, he brings HIV with him. He dies. A widow after one year of marriage, she is in denial that she might be infected. She delays treatment. She, too, dies. These women, and countless others like them, are the face of AIDS in today's world. Far from the "gay white men's disease of the '80s," HIV/AIDS is infecting and affecting women more than ever before. As the epidemic enters its third decade, women now account for half of the 42 million people living worldwide with HIV/AIDS." Please share your views with the forum about the position of women in your part of the world and their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/discussion/default/showDiscussion.do~id=2962?intcmp=911 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5.  NEW MEMBER DIRECTORY - UPDATE YOUR MEMBER PROFILE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. DISTRIBUTE YOUR CONTENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7. VIRTUAL CONSULTATION FOR INTER-AMERICAN MINISTERIAL MEETING ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DID YOU KNOW?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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