44 items Genero y Desarrollo 25 Oct.2007

Actualización de contenido - Género y Desarrollo en el Development Gateway ------------------------- 44 {totalItems} nuevos recursos en la página Género y Desarrollo del Development Gateway http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender 1. The Union for Democratic Communications 2. Creating the "Quilt Capital of Canada": The Story of the Waterloo County & Area Quilt Festival 3. Culture as an Economic Engine 4. AHF’s Innovative “Stay Negative� HIV Prevention Campaign Successfully Breaks Through to Target Audience 5. UNRSID: Social Policy and Development 6. Gender-based Violence in the Western Pacific Region: A Hidden Epidemic? 7. Muslims and the Future of Integration Policy in Europe 8. CEDAW and the Human Rights Based Approach to Programming: A UNIFEM Guide 9. Desigualdades Raciais e de Gênero entre Crianças, Adolescentes e Mulheres no Brasil, no contexto dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio 10. UNIFEM Brazil - Pobreza 11. UNIFEM Brazil - HIV/AIDS 12. UNIFEM Brazil - Violência 13. UNIFEM - Aceh Tsunami Response 14. The Gender Implications of Trade Policies in the Caribbean: Special Reference to Women & NAFTA 15. UNIFEM - Women, Gender & Poverty in the Windward Islands 16. UNIFEM - DESafios: Rights-based Approach for Women’s Economic & Social Justice in the Caribbean 17. UNIFEM Publication - Towards Political Empowerment of Bahraini Women 18. UNIFEM - Expert Group meeting for increasing effectiveness of National machineries in Gender mainstreaming in Jordan 19. UNIFEM - Combating Violence Against Women projects through Iraqi local NGOs interventions 20. UNIFEM Arab Women Media Watch Project (AWMW) (Jordan) 21. UNIFEM - Arab Women's Parliamentarians Project (Jordan) 22. UNIFEM - Arab Women's Parliamentarians Project (Kuwait) 23. UNIFEM - The Story behind the Numbers: Women and Employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States 24. UNIFEM and Women’s Funding Network Call for Investment in Women to End Global Poverty 25. IRENE Network 26. Access to information : A real challenge 27. Israeli Doctors Providing Male Circumcision in Swaziland in Effort To Prevent Spread of HIV 28. South Africa must do more against AIDS: UNICEF 29. UN seeks end to human trafficking in South Asia 30. ODI Opinion Paper - Making contract farming work with co-operatives 31. ODI Opinion Paper - Funding agriculture: not 'how much?' but 'what for?' 32. ODI Briefing Paper - Linking social protection and the productive sectors 33. Research on Agriculture from the Overseas Development Institute 34. Girls' adolescence in Burkina Faso: A pivot point for social change 35. UK Pledges £100 Million to UNFPA to Make Childbirth Safer and Promote Reproductive Health 36. Maternal Mortality Figures Show Limited Progress in Making Motherhood Safer 37. Women Deliver Conference Launches New Commitments 38. Fistula Survivors Speak Out at Women Deliver Conference 39. WOMEN: THE PILLARS OF AFGHANISTAN 40. Global Review of Challenges and Good Practices in Support of Displaced Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations 41. OXUS Afghanistan 42. UNIFEM Afghanistan 43. Ministry of Women’s Affairs - Afghanistan 44. UNAMA: Gender page ------------------------- 1. The Union for Democratic Communications http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117514 The Union for Democratic Communications is an organization of communication researchers, journalists, media producers, policy analysts, academics and activists dedicated to: critical study of the communications establishment; production and... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 19 Oct , 2007 2. Creating the "Quilt Capital of Canada": The Story of the Waterloo County & Area Quilt Festival http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117567 The Waterloo County and Area Quilt Festival (WCAQF) is a non-profit organization that presents an annual 10-day Festival in May celebrating the art and heritage of quilting through 40 different events in 10 communities. This is the largest Festival... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 19 Oct , 2007 3. Culture as an Economic Engine http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117575 Municipalities that adopt culture as an industry have gained positive economic benefits for their communities. Cultural industries create job growth, turn ordinary cities into “destination cities,� create interconnections between arts and business,... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 19 Oct , 2007 4. AHF’s Innovative “Stay Negative� HIV Prevention Campaign Successfully Breaks Through to Target Audience http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117652 A post-campaign survey of AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s (AHF) innovative “Stay Negative� social marketing campaign recently revealed the initiative’s success at breaking through to its target audience and reaching its objective to create an effective... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 20 Oct , 2007 5. UNRSID: Social Policy and Development http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117667 Social Policy and Development is still one of the main research programs at the UN Research Institute for Social Development. UNRISD defines social policy as public policies and institutions that aim to protect citizens from social contingencies and... Contribuido por John Daly el 20 Oct , 2007 6. Gender-based Violence in the Western Pacific Region: A Hidden Epidemic? http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117438 "The 2005 WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence Against Women found that abused women were twice as likely as non-abused women to have poor health and physical and mental problems, even years after the violent attacks have... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 18 Oct , 2007 7. Muslims and the Future of Integration Policy in Europe http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117411 This paper systematically evaluates the freely available data, contained in the European Social Survey and other international, open sources, on the problems of internal security and social policy in Europe for the Muslim and the non-Muslim... Contribuido por Sidy Sissoko el 18 Oct , 2007 8. CEDAW and the Human Rights Based Approach to Programming: A UNIFEM Guide http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117677 Author/Editor(s): Lee Waldorf, with research by Christine Arab and Menaka Guruswamy: Promoting universal respect for human rights has been one of the fundamental goals of the United Nations (UN) since its creation, and the development of a... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 9. Desigualdades Raciais e de Gênero entre Crianças, Adolescentes e Mulheres no Brasil, no contexto dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento do Milênio http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117678 Esta publicação é resultado de uma parceria entre UNIFEM e UNICEF. Ela ilustra como as iniqüidades por raça/etnia e gênero afetam aobremaneira mulheres, crianças e adolescentes, e como é importante considerá-las não apenas nas análises sobre ODM, mas... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 10. UNIFEM Brazil - Pobreza http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117679 O programa do UNIFEM Incorporação das dimensões de eqüidade de gênero, racial e étnica nos programas de combate à pobreza em quatro países da América Latina, foi realizado com apoio da Agência Espanhola de Cooperação Internacional (AECI). Iniciado em... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 11. UNIFEM Brazil - HIV/AIDS http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117680 O UNIFEM incorpora a perspectiva de igualdade de gênero e direitos humanos ao seu trabalho relativo à mulher e à HIV/AIDS. Toma a iniciativa de propor estratégias integrais que estabelecem vínculos claros entre a violência contra a mulher, a... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 12. UNIFEM Brazil - Violência http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117681 Programa Regional Cidades Seguras: Violencia Contra as Mulheres e Politicas Publicas: Hoje na América latina, muitas cidades são cenário de diversas manifestações de temos, exclusão e iniqüidade, que são obstáculos à prática de uma cidadania ativa,... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 13. UNIFEM - Aceh Tsunami Response http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117682 UNIFEM's office in Aceh, Indonesia, has established a range of projects with networks of strong, committed survivors of the December 2005 Tsunami and supporters. This newsletter provides an overview of the achievements of UNIFEM and its partners.... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 14. The Gender Implications of Trade Policies in the Caribbean: Special Reference to Women & NAFTA http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117683 In 1994 UNIFEM implemented the Capacity Building Project as a means of strengthening the institutional capacity of Caribbean governmental, non-governmental and multilateral development organisations to undertake gender analysis and gender-sensitive... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 15. UNIFEM - Women, Gender & Poverty in the Windward Islands http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117684 Objective: To create an enabling and sustainable environment to ensure economic growth with equity and justice and the advancement and improved living standards of women and men, primarily those displaced from the banana industry, and alleviate... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 16. UNIFEM - DESafios: Rights-based Approach for Women’s Economic & Social Justice in the Caribbean http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117685 Objective: To promote women’s involvement in local, national and regional accountability processes through monitoring of national and international government commitments and of adequate and sufficient resource allocations for their accomplishment;... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 17. UNIFEM Publication - Towards Political Empowerment of Bahraini Women http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117686 Today, Women’s issues, role and involvement in public life have gained great and increased concerns not only on the national level, but also on the regional and global level. Globalization and liberalization, which opened new opportunities for women... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 18. UNIFEM - Expert Group meeting for increasing effectiveness of National machineries in Gender mainstreaming in Jordan http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117687 ESCWA in collaboration with UNIFEM Arab States Regional Office convened an Expert Group meeting hosted by UNIFEM in Amman from 5-6 September 2007, in collaboration with the League of Arab States ( LAS ). The objective of the expert group meeting was... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 19. UNIFEM - Combating Violence Against Women projects through Iraqi local NGOs interventions http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117688 UNIFEM recognizes that Iraqis, particularly women and girls, have been experiencing a constant state of violence and insecurity especially in the last two years. Attacks by armed organized groups have been sporadic and unpredictable but powerful and... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 20. UNIFEM Arab Women Media Watch Project (AWMW) (Jordan) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117689 During the last decade, the topic of “Arab women and the media� has been the object of some research work and seminars in most Arab countries. International organisations, public authorities, academic spheres and women's organisations have, at... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 21. UNIFEM - Arab Women's Parliamentarians Project (Jordan) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117690 Engendering governance and leadership to increase women’s participation in decision-making processes that shape their lives, continues to be a priority of the United Nations Development Fund for Women’s (UNIFEM) in its Strategy and Business Plan. The... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 22. UNIFEM - Arab Women's Parliamentarians Project (Kuwait) http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117691 Engendering governance and leadership to increase women’s participation in decision-making processes that shape their lives, continues to be a priority of the United Nations Development Fund for Women’s (UNIFEM) in its Strategy and Business Plan. The... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 23. UNIFEM - The Story behind the Numbers: Women and Employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117692 This report offers a comprehensive analysis and recommendations on women’s true status in the labour market. The regional analysis draws on the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Gender Statistics Database as well as on the findings that... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 24. UNIFEM and Women’s Funding Network Call for Investment in Women to End Global Poverty http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117693 Partnership to focus international attention on women during Stand Up Campaign on World Poverty Day. UNIFEM, the women’s fund at the United Nations, and the Women’s Funding Network, a global network of 124 women’s funds, have called for greater... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 25. IRENE Network http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117694 IRENE has been stimulating and facilitating the exchange of information on labour issues since 1981 and has contacts, resources and a European programme of work which covers current international labour issues. IRENE is an international network on... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 21 Oct , 2007 26. Access to information : A real challenge http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117708 The importance of information accessibility to the struggle for establishing women's human rights is inevitable. The issue is being widely recognised as a prerequisite for women's empowerment in recent years. It confers an overview of the way women... Contribuido por Boris Demidov el 21 Oct , 2007 27. Israeli Doctors Providing Male Circumcision in Swaziland in Effort To Prevent Spread of HIV http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117865 Kaiser daily HIV Report. October 22, 2007. Teams of Israeli surgeons have begun providing male circumcision in Swaziland in an effort to prevent the spread of HIV. Health officials in Swaziland, which has fewer than 100 doctors and the world's... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 22 Oct , 2007 28. South Africa must do more against AIDS: UNICEF http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117887 South Africa must do more to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS amid rising child deaths and over one million children orphaned by the disease, the UN children's fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday. "Each year, 100,000 children contract the AIDS virus in South... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 22 Oct , 2007 29. UN seeks end to human trafficking in South Asia http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117897 A UN initiative to fight human trafficking has been launched in the Indian capital, Delhi. The global campaign is aimed at achieving a turning point in the fight against trafficking. Millions of people around the world are victims of sexual... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 22 Oct , 2007 30. ODI Opinion Paper - Making contract farming work with co-operatives http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117831 'A greater focus on strengthening market-orientated producer organisations and dispute-resolution mechanisms between farmers and firms may increase the chances of win-win outcomes from this form of institutional innovation' Contribuido por Nick Scott el 22 Oct , 2007 31. ODI Opinion Paper - Funding agriculture: not 'how much?' but 'what for?' http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117813 'Before calling for an increase in the volume of funding to agriculture, we need a better understanding of how resources are being used' Contribuido por Nick Scott el 22 Oct , 2007 32. ODI Briefing Paper - Linking social protection and the productive sectors http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117799 Agricultural productivity can be supported by well-designed social protection programmes * In relation to the productive sectors, social protection can enhance resilience in the face of threats, limit disinvestment, and, by reducing perceptions of... Contribuido por Nick Scott el 22 Oct , 2007 33. Research on Agriculture from the Overseas Development Institute http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117785 Despite urbanisation, 75% of the world's poor live rurally, and agriculture remains the largest single contributor to their livelihoods. This page collates resources from the UK's leading think-tank on international development and humanitarian... Contribuido por Nick Scott el 22 Oct , 2007 34. Girls' adolescence in Burkina Faso: A pivot point for social change http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117776 As closer attention is paid to the lives of adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa, girls are found to be clearly disadvantaged, compared with their male counterparts. In Burkina Faso 74 percent of girls aged 15-19 cannot read (INSD and ORC Macro 2004).... Contribuido por Debra Warn el 22 Oct , 2007 35. UK Pledges £100 Million to UNFPA to Make Childbirth Safer and Promote Reproductive Health http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117901 18 October 2007 - LONDON. Maternal deaths and unwanted pregnancies can be cut dramatically in countries around the globe after the British Government today pledged £100 million to UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to achieve universal access... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 22 Oct , 2007 36. Maternal Mortality Figures Show Limited Progress in Making Motherhood Safer http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117908 Figures released in October 2007 jointly by UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF and The World Bank reveal that women continue to die of pregnancy-related causes at a rate of about one a minute. These figures, the first new international estimates in five years, show... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 22 Oct , 2007 37. Women Deliver Conference Launches New Commitments http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117914 22 October 2007 - Strong new pledges of commitment to invest in women’s health came from donors, government officials, corporations, foundations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at closing sessions of the landmark Women Deliver Conference,... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 22 Oct , 2007 38. Fistula Survivors Speak Out at Women Deliver Conference http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117922 19 October 2007. They travelled from different places across Africa—Sudan, Tanzania, Niger, Nigeria, Kenya—but their common stories brought them together at Women Deliver, a landmark conference focused on curbing pregnancy-related death and... Contribuido por Anuradha Bhattacharjee el 22 Oct , 2007 39. WOMEN: THE PILLARS OF AFGHANISTAN http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1118004 WOMEN: THE PILLARS OF AFGHANISTAN By M. Ashraf Haidari (10/17/2007 issue of the CACI Analyst) The largest defeat of the British-Indian forces in the Second Anglo-Afghan War came through the leadership of one heroic, Afghan woman — Malalai of Maiwand.... Contribuido por M. Ashraf Haidari el 23 Oct , 2007 40. Global Review of Challenges and Good Practices in Support of Displaced Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1117991 "This report summarizes the views on assisting displaced women in conflict and post-conflict situations presented at the UNFPA Expert Meeting and Workshop on Displaced Women, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, 21-24 June 2007. The first goal of the meeting... Contribuido por Maribeth Lovegrove el 23 Oct , 2007 41. OXUS Afghanistan http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1118146 OXUS Afghanistan is part of the OXUS Development Network (ODN), a global network of MFIs affiliated to ACTED. OXUS Afghanistan is currently providing loans to solidarity groups of women and men for income-generating activities. The organization works... Contribuido por Carmen Villegas Caballero el 25 Oct , 2007 42. UNIFEM Afghanistan http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1118151 UNIFEM established its presence in Afghanistan in early 2002 following the collapse of the Taliban. Since then UNIFEM has undergone a process of consultation with Afghan women to formulate its strategy for Afghanistan based on the needs identified by... Contribuido por Carmen Villegas Caballero el 25 Oct , 2007 43. Ministry of Women’s Affairs - Afghanistan http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1118155 Ministry of Women’s Affairs as the only governmental policy making organization coordinates, leads, monitors and controls the activities of governmental organizations and national and international NGOs that work and serve the Afghan women and girls.... Contribuido por Carmen Villegas Caballero el 25 Oct , 2007 44. UNAMA: Gender page http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1118171 UNAMA was established on March 28, 2002 through United Nations Security Council resolution 1401. Its original mandate was aimed at supporting the process of rebuilding and national reconciliation outlined in the Bonn Agreement of December 2001.... Contribuido por Carmen Villegas Caballero el 25 Oct , 2007

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