DG -Julio 18/07 - Genero y Desarrollo Humano

Development Gateway Foundation dgCommunities: Gender and Development http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911 July 18, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. NEW HIGHLIGHT: The International Women's Summit (IWS), July 4-7, Nairobi. Kenya. 2. HIGHLIGHT RESOURCES 3. DISCUSSION: Is Gender Being Factored into Climate Change Policy Decisions? 4. NEW! Resource of Interest 5. FROM dgCOMMUNITIES: Development Gateway Foundation Photo Contest 6. IFC-Financial Times Essay Competition: Through Sept.30 7. MEMBER DIRECTORY: Update Your Profile for Networking & Collaboration --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Member, Welcome to your newsletter from the Gender and Development dgCommunity of the Development Gateway. Anuradha Bhattacharjee Content Coordinator --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. NEW! HIGHLIGHT: The International Women's Summit (IWS), July 4-7, Nairobi. Kenya. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Women's Summit brought together 1500 women of all ages and HIV statuses, as well as stakeholders and partners to discuss the impact HIV and AIDS has on women and recognise the leadership women from across the world have demonstrated in bringing a solution to the pandemic. The IWS featured a wide range of activities and sessions and exceptional speakers to celebrate and expand the power of women's leadership. The Summit allowed particpants to build skills, strengthen existing partnerships and create new networks in order to mobilise the changes needed to reverse the global HIV pandemic on women and girls at all levels. The first day, July 4, was a Positive Women's Forum exclusively for HIV positive women. The goals of the Summit were: To highlight the difference women's leadership is making in response to HIV and AIDS by making visible African and young women's leadership, at grassroots and community levels, including national, regional and international levels; To build the capacity of leaders and their organisations in undertaking sustainable programmes that address cutting-edge issues; To raise awareness and mobilise the women's movement on HIV and AIDS and crosscutting issues and produce the evidence required to effect change at all levels in society; To provide the space for networking and the building of strategic partnerships that will broaden the impact of responses to HIV and AIDS at all levels. Vowing that "we can lead the change we wish to see in the world", participants at the World YWCA's International Women's Summit on HIV and AIDS concluded their meeting with a call to action demanding individual and collective responsibility. "This call to action is not just words on paper" Dr Musimbi Kanyoro, General Secretary of the World YWCA told press at the Kenyatta International Conference Center. " It is a personal pledge each of us at this summit is making in our hearts and with our hands. And as the World YWCA, which is a movement of 25 million women worldwide, we know that these pledges will multiply. Where one woman acts, more will be inspired, more will be committed, more will take action until there is no power that can stop us. " Actress Naomi Watts, UNAIDS special representative, speaking in a specially prepared video, said, 'Leadership is critical and we need more of it and more people at all levels' to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment by 2010. Affirming the "courageous leadership" of women that has already been demonstrated in the Summit, she concluded, " while the road ahead is tough, I do firmly believe that if we push the envelope, if we work together, and we stand strong, we can and we will turn the tide of AIDS." Information and photograph for the article, courtesy conference website and World YWCA. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. HIGHLIGHT RESOURCES --------------------------------------------------------------------- - International Women's Summit, July 4-7, 2007. Nairobi. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1107546?intcmp=911 - World YWCA Women Leading Change Awards at International Women's Summit http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1107556?intcmp=911 - HIV Positive Women Around the World United in Nairobi, Kenya on July 04, 2007. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1108202?intcmp=911 - Kenya: Female Condoms Still Out of Reach, Say Delegates http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1107842?intcmp=911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. DISCUSSION: Is Gender Being Factored into Climate Change Policy Decisions? --------------------------------------------------------------------- According to many experts, gender is not being given its due importance at international Climate Change Conferences and Forums. Because of the feminization of poverty, and other issues of gender inequality - gender will always be impacted adversely by Climate Change, hence special provisions must be made to include gender in policy decisions. What are your views? Please share them with the community. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/discussion/default/showDiscussion.do~id=4184?intcmp=911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. NEW! Resource of Interest - Call For Papers: "Refugee Women in the Arab World." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2007. The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW), based in the Lebanese American University, is soliciting articles for the forthcoming issue of the quarterly publication, Al-Raida. The central topic for this edition of the journal will be "Refugee Women in the Arab World." We are interested in receiving papers based on academic studies or critical essays that address concerns related to refugee women in the Arab world. Within this issue, we will focus on understanding the gender-specific experiences of Arab women externally displaced from their countries of origin. The papers to be considered will explore womanhood and social, cultural, or religious identity within the context of a refugee situation and is open to a wide range issues, from life-giving opportunities to social exclusion. Topics can include, but are not limited to, the following: * Impact of refugee situation on gender dynamics within the family and on otherhood, womanhood, and adolescence; * Gender/cultural sensitivity of aid to refugee women in the Arab World; * Social and political discrimination, particularly with regard to gender; * Expression of gender, identity, and experience within a refugee context; * Formal and informal networks of refugee women in the Arab world; * Representation of Arab refugee women in the media and in public discourse; * Activism and Arab refugee women. As a special feature of this issue, we are interested in receiving poetry which expresses and explores the experience of being an Arab refugee woman. If you are interested in contributing to this issue of Al-Raida, kindly send your abstract (250-300 words) by no later than August 15, 2007 . All abstracts submitted are reviewed by Al-Raida's editorial staff and are subject to its approval. This journal edition will be edited by Ms. Anna Elyse Ressler, researcher and writer. Website for The Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World - IWSAW. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1108140?intcmp=911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. FROM DG COMMUNITIES: Development Gateway Foundation Photo Contest --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Development Gateway Foundation is calling for photographs illustrating socio-economic development in developing countries. Images must include a description explaining how that image is representative of development. Each entrant may submit up to three photographs. The deadline to submit photographs is September 21, 2007. The winner will receive $500. Get the complete details and enter the contest at: http://www.dgfoundation.org/news-events/photo-contest.html?intcmp=800 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. IFC-Financial Times Essay Competition: Through Sept. 30 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Financial Times invite entries to our 2nd annual essay contest about the role of the private sector in international development. Our competition offers entrants an unparalleled opportunity to share their research and ideas with a prestigious expert jury panel and to reach an international audience. The top prize is a US$20,000 cash award. Winning essays will be published on the IFC and FT web sites. The winners will be announced in early 2008. We are accepting entries from Wednesday, April 25, 2007 to Sunday, September 30, 2007. For details on how to apply, and to view all six of last year's winning entries, please visit us at: http://www.ifc.org/competition --------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. 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. Log onto the dgCommunity platform by clicking http://topics.developmentgateway.org/um/user/showUserAccount.do?intcmp=911 Then, under "Manage Your Account" in the upper right, click "Edit Member Profile". 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 and go to My Gateway http://topics.developmentgateway.org/um/user/showUserAccount.do?intcmp=911 On upper right under "Manage Your Account", scroll down to "Edit Member Profile", and click "Edit this information". -SEARCH FOR MEMBERS Log in to the Development Gateway and go to "My Gateway". On upper right, scroll down to "Manage Your Contacts" and click "Search directory" to add new contacts. 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 on My Gateway on the left column under "Member Services" when you scroll down and click "Directory" 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 contact list can be viewed when you log in, go to My Gateway, scroll down to "Manage Your Contacts" and click "View your dgCommunity contacts list". --------------------------------------------------------------------- DID YOU KNOW? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Did you know that as a member of the Gender and Development dgCommunity 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 Content Coordinator gender@developmentgateway.org http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911

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