Gender and Development, Oct.22/07

Development Gateway Foundation dgCommunities: Gender and Development http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911 October 22, 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. NEW HIGHLIGHT: Women Deliver Conference, October 18 – 20, 2007 2. HIGHLIGHT RESOURCES 3. ONGOING DISCUSSION: Political will and leadership are fundamental to improving women's access to health services 4. NEW! Resource of Interest 5. DG PHOTO CONTEST INTERVIEW WITH THE WINNER 6. 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: Women Deliver Conference, October 18 – 20, 2007. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The landmark Women Deliver conference brought some of the United Nations' most high-powered leaders to London in October to further the Millennium Development Goals of curbing preventable pregnancy-related deaths of mothers and newborns. Honorary co-chairs of London's ExCel Centre conference 18-20 October are Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro of Tanzania, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations; and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, now president of Realizing Rights. Featured speakers include: Thoraya Obaid, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund; Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation; Assane Diop, Executive Director of the International Labour Organization; Dr. Peter Piot, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNAIDS; and Dr. Nafis Sadik of Pakistan, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General for HIV/AIDS. These powerful leaders will be among more than 1,500 world decision-makers and delegates from 75 countries expected at the global conference, which will focus on strengthening health systems and creating political will to save the lives and improve the health of women, mothers and newborn babies around the world. MDGs 4 and 5 call for reducing child mortality and improving maternal health by 2015. At the moment, ten million women die in every generation from pregnancy-related causes that are mostly preventable, and four million newborns also die needlessly every year. Twenty years of research and experience have demonstrated proven ways to save most of these lives, but maternal and newborn health still receives inadequate attention and funding. Conference speakers will highlight the theme: Invest in Women, It Pays. Workshops will demonstrate the need for government and donor investment in key areas that will make pregnancy safer, reduce maternal deaths and enable women to reach their fullest potential. The year 2007 is critical for advancing the health and rights of women. The Women Deliver Conference in London marks the 20th anniversary of the launch of the global Safe Motherhood Initiative. We now know how to save the lives of most of the mothers and infants who die needlessly worldwide in pregnancy and childbirth. However, the overall number of women (about 500,000 per year) and newborns who die in this way (about four million) has not dropped significantly. This is in large part due to lack of political will. Maternal and newborn health still receives inadequate attention and funding. At the Women Deliver Conference, research and experience shared among the 2,000 participants has demonstrated the critical connection between women's health and rights and sound economies, healthy families and strong communities. The theme for the Conference: "Invest in women—it pays." This theme captures a simple truth: When a society spends money and other resources to improve the lives of women, children and families, the benefits rebound through that entire society - Education levels increase; Economies grow; Political participation widens. The key lesson is that women are central to the economic, social, and political health of nations. Since the early 1990s, studies by the United Nations, the World Bank, and others have demonstrated the value of investing in interventions that improve the health of women, including maternal health. Text and photograph courtesy conference website and UNFPA http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender?intcmp=911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. HIGHLIGHT RESOURCES --------------------------------------------------------------------- - Fistula Survivors Speak Out at Women Deliver Conference http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1117922?intcmp=911 - Women Deliver Conference Launches New Commitments http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1117914?intcmp=911 - Maternal Mortality Figures Show Limited progress in Making Motherhood Safer http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1117908?intcmp=911 - UK Pledges 100 Million to UNFPA to make Childbirth Safer and Promote Reproductive Health http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1117901?intcmp=911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. NEW! DISCUSSION: Political will and leadership are fundamental to improving women's access to health services --------------------------------------------------------------------- Political will and leadership are fundamental to improving women's access to health services. Efforts to increase women's access to health services have fallen short in many developing countries because of underlying economic, political, social and cultural constraints. Parliamentarians are well-placed to promote gender sensitive health policies, whether through legislative mandates, acting as public role models and spokespersons for gender equality and public openness about HIV and AIDS, or supporting development of a sustainable national health infrastructure. What is the situation in your country? Please share your views with the community. Thank you. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/discussion/default/showDiscussion.do~id=4963?intcmp=911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. NEW! Resource of Interest: IRENE Network --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 development education working towards international labour issues being taken up by NGOs and trade unions in their mainstream education and campaign programmes. IRENE is set up to strengthen international workers solidarity. By organising international seminars and workshops it gives attention to new areas of work and provides new inputs in existing work. IRENEs activities stimulate the exchange between organisations in the South and the North and within Europe (also Eastern Europe). The core question of IRENEs work is: How are workers (women and men), in different regions in the world, are affected by international restructuring in the industrial and services sector. The Internatinal Programme from 2007 onwards - Corporate Social Responsibility - corporate accountability and international regulatory frameworks for transnational corporations. IRENE is member of OECD Watch and coordinator of the capacity building programme of OECD Watch. IRENE is member of the steering group of ECCJ, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice. Workers' rights, workers' ability to organise and to gain power over their lives are at the core of the work on workers in the informal economy. In IRENE there is a strong agreement to elaborate on all issues specifically on women workers. http://topics.developmentgateway.org/gender/rc/ItemDetail.do~1117694?intcmp=911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. DG PHOTO CONTEST INTERVIEW WITH THE WINNER --------------------------------------------------------------------- IT Consultant Wins DG Photo Contest - Prashant Bhardwaj's passion for photography started when he used to play around with a camera his father owned. A couple of years ago that interest sharpened as he became serious about using his photography as a means of educating both the public and himself. "I can use my camera to do my bit for society," Bhardwaj proudly states. Read the full story at http://www.dgfoundation.org/news-events/photo-contest.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. 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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