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Links [to Resources page] Websites that we have found useful are listed below, under the following categories:
Gender Equality and Mainstreaming Resources
Capacity Building for Gender Mainstreaming Information Packs, UNDP GIDP http://www.undp.org/gender/capacity/
Demonstration web-based collection of gender mainstreaming capacity support material from the United Nations and Commonwealth systems - 1990's to 2000 http://www.col.org/genderresources/
UNIFEM and Gender mainstreaming http://www.unifem.undp.org/main_res.htm
DAC Guidelines for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Development Co-operation. Guidelines adopted by the Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1998. http://www.oecd.org/dac/Gender/htm/guidelines.htm
DAC Sourcebook on Concepts and Approaches Linked to Gender Equality. From the Working Party on Gender Equality, Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 1998. (Brief overviews of topics such as accountability, empowerment, monitoring and evaluation). Available in English, French and Spanish. http://www.oecd.org/dac/Gender/htm/sourcebook.htm
Razavi, Shahra and Carol Miller. Gender mainstreaming: A Study of Efforts by the UNDP, the World Bank and the ILO to Institutionalize Gender Issues. UNRISD Occasional Paper No. 4, Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995. http://www.unrisd.org/engindex/publ/list/opb/opb4/toc.htm#TopOfPage
Razavi, Shahra and Carol Miller. From WID to GAD: Conceptual Shifts in the Women and Development Discourse. UNRISD Occasional Paper No. 1, UN Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995 http://www.unrisd.org/engindex/publ/list/opb/opb1/toc.htm#TopOfPage
Schalkwyk, J. Building Capacity for Gender Mainstreaming: UNDP’s Experience. New York: GIDP, UNDP, December 1998 http://www.undp.org/gender/capacity/mid-term_review.html
United Nations. Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995. Text and selected national action plans http://www.un.org/womenwatch/followup/
Commonwealth Gender Mainstreaming http://www.thecommonwealth.org/gender/htm/whatwedo/activities/mainstreaming/index.htm
UN and Multilateral Agencies
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Women and Food Security Issues, http://www.fao.org/Gender/gender.htm
International Fund for Agricultural Development, Household, food security and gender. Link to gender training materials. (English and Spanish) http://www.ifad.org/gendown.htm (Gender Training Materials)
International Labour Organization (ILO), Work on labour and employment. (English, Spanish, French)
OECD-DAC Gender Web site, Member policies and resources, http://www.oecd.org/dac/gender
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UNESCO’s work on women and children
UN Statistics Division Gender Statistics, “Statistics and Indicators on the World’s Women” http://www.un.org/depts/unsd/gender
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Overview of UNIFEM work, projects and links to regional offices. (English, Spanish, French)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Gender in Development Web site on UNDP work on gender issues.
United Nations Division on the Advancement of Women (DAW), News and information on the work of DAW, the Commission on the Status of Women, Beijing+5 and CEDAW. http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw
United Nations Fund for Population Activities, Focus on Beijing +5 and ICPD advocacy. http://www.unfpa.org/tpd/gender/index.htm
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), UNHCRs work on refugees and gender issues. (English) http://www.unhcr.ch/issues/women/women.htm
Women Watch, UN Interagency web site on the UN system. (English)
World Bank, Resources on gender issues in development, gender analysis, and strategies. http://www.worldbank.org/gender
World Food Programme, Women and Gender in the World Food Programme. Food Aid and gender and gender glossary.
Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth Secretariat Gender & Development http://www.thecommonwealth.org/gender/index1.htm Reference Web Sites
BRIDGE, An information and analysis service that aims to assist development professionals to integrate gender concerns into their work.
Electronic Development and Environment Information System (ELDIS), An on-line directory to information resources on development and environment. The gender guide allows searching the database for organizations, online documents and publications on gender.
Feminist.com, Provides extensive links to Web sites and electronic resources relating to gender and feminist issues. http://www.feminist.com/globe.htm
WEDO, WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all.
Intercooperation, This link collection is a selection of websites of institutions and organisations with which INTERCOOPERATION interacts or which serve as relevant information sources for activities. http://www.intercooperation.ch/links.html
Support for Gender Equitable Research - IDRC, http://www.idrc.ca/socdev/research/gender.html
The Huairou Commission, A global network of grass-roots women’s organizations working on human settlements, local government, crisis management and community issues
Association for Women in Development (AWID), Membership organization linking practitioner, policy makers and researchers working for gender equality and development. Produces AWID electronic Resource Net, an edited list of information as well as Trialogue journal. (English)
International Women’s Tribune Centre, Information and communications clearinghouse on women. Produces newsletters and manuals. See GlobalNet. (English) http://www/womenink.org/iwtc.html
The Commonwealth of Learning Document Archive: Women in Development , Works to widen access to education and establish inter-agency and inter-institutional cooperative development of resources and programs.
Womenaction2000, Global information, communication and media http://www.womenaction.org (English, Spanish, French)
UNDP Gender in Development Good Practices http://www.undp.org/gender/practices/
Education: Cisco Learning Institute and its partners select gender best-practice sites http://www.gender.ciscolearning.org/bestpractices/index.html
SURF South & West Asia depository of "best practices" and lessons learned from UNDP programmes in the sub-region http://www.surfsouthasia.org/BESTPRAC/UNDP/intro.shtm
SURF Europe and CIS Best Practices http://www.rbec-surf.sk/BestPractices/
Small Sampling of Sites on Specific Issues Human Rights Watch: defending human rights world wide
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
Human Rights Internet – Linking the Digital Divide
LEAF - a Canadian national organization which promotes equality for women through legal action and public education based on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. http://www.westcoastleaf.org/index.html
Trafficking in Women and Children
Stability Pact Task Force for Eastern Europe - Trafficking in Human Beings http://www.osce.org/odihr/attf/index.php3?sc=Meetings
Women’s Lobby http://www.womenlobby.org/Document.asp?DocID=230&tod=5219
Trafficking in Women for the Purpose of Sexual Exploitation: Mapping the Situation and Existing Organisations Working in Belarus, Russia, the Baltic and Nordic States http://www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se/papers/traffickingreport.html
UNICEF - Trafficking of Human Beings http://www.unicef.ca/eng/travail/news/111501.html http://www.unicef.org/programme/cprotection/focus/trafficking/issue.htm
Women in Government and Decision Making
WEDO Primer on Women in Government http://www.wedo.org/5050/wedo_primer2.htm
Where have all the women gone? Increasing Women's Representation in Parliamentary Bodies in the Former Soviet Union: The Case of Ukraine. http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/GenderGlobalChange/article1.html
Media
Mediawatch: Challenges abusive stereotypes
Environment
Gender and Biodiversity Management in India http://www.undp.org/tcdc/bestprac/agri/cases/india1.htm Violence
White Ribbon Campaign in– Men working to end men’s violence against women http://www.eurowrc.org/page1.htm - Europe (various languages) http://www.whiteribbon.ca/ - Canada (English or French)
San Diego, USA Police Force: Domestic Violence Protocol Includes policies and procedures http://www.clew.org/CLEW/Trn/DVDraft398.html
Policies & Procedures on Domestic Violence by Police Officers, USA www.theiacp.org/pubinfo/pubs/domesticmodelpolicy.doc
BC Institute Against Family Violence
Cybergrrl Safety Net – Resourceshttp://www.cybergrrl.com/fs.jhtml?/views/dv// Armed Conflict
ICRW – documents/articles – violence, post-conflicthttp://www.icrw.org/prowid.htm
Training for Civilian Personnel in Peacekeeping Operations on the Special Needs of Women and Children in Conflict – UN Institute for Training and Researchhttp://212.27.191.132/ny/web2002/unitar/en/programme/gender_and_pko.html
Status of Women Canada Report on Women and Armed Conflict, including: Gender Awareness Training Initiative for Civilian and Military Participants in Peace Operations http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/publish/beijing5/armed-conflict-e.html http://www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/publish/beijing5/armed-conflict-e.pdf pdf version Security Council on Women, Peace and Securityhttp://www.un.org/events/scmtg241000.html Countries in Transition
Women/Gender Studies Association of Countries in Transition
Women in Transition (The countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union) covers a broad range of issues, including women's participation in the emerging market economy and democratic governments, female access to health and education, trends in family formation and violence against women and girls. The statistical annex presents data on 27 transition countries and includes 130 indicators on social and economic trends.http://www.un.org/Pubs/textbook/e00115.htm
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