The CSO Network Japan & US-Japan Public-Private Partnership (P3) Initiative is hosted by Pact. For more information, contact: Richard Forrest, Coordinator, US-Japan Public-Private Partnership (P3), Pact, 1200 18th Street, N.W., Suite 350, Washington, D.C. 20036, T (202) 466-5666 ext. 259, F (202) 466-5669, email: rforrest@pacthq.org, web: www.pactworld.org.

International Perspectives: Global Voices for Gender Equity

November 15 - 17, Washington, DC. The American Association of University Women Educational Foundation and the Educational Testing Service jointly sponsor this symposium to explore how women create change. The symposium is designed as a dynamic exploration of how women have used their education to address literacy improvement, peace education and conflict resolution, governance, and education for people with disabilities. This event will be held at the Wyndham Washington, DC, Hotel. For more information, contact the AAUW Educational Foundation: Tel.: 202-728-7602, Fax.: 202-463-7169, www.aauw.org.

Symposium on Gender Research: "Gender - From Costs to Benefits"

November 15 - 17, Kiel, Germany. The conference, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, focuses on the economic aspects of gendering with the aim of discussing the costs and benefits of the gender category. Of interest are questions like the following: How much does it cost when women earn just as much as men? How useful is the gender-specific distribution of tasks? How expensive is it not to make use of the leadership potential of women? For information, contact: Dr. Anja Gottburgsen, Fax: +431-579-49-50, email: gottburgsen@zif.uni-kiel.de.

Boards Building Community: 2002 National Leadership Forum

November 17 - 18, Washington, DC. BoardSource presents its National Leadership Forum at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC. This exciting two-day conference offers a variety of action-oriented workshops and elective sessions addressing important board and community building topics, such as funding for the future, board recruitment, community coalitions, marketing your organization's mission, and strategic planning. Learn more and register at: www.boardsource.org.

"Globalization, Violence, NGOs and the Non-State Actors" International Seminar & Call for Papers

December 2002, Tehran, Iran. Abstract Deadline: June 30. The Organization for Defending Victims of Violence (ODVV) presents this conference addressing issues such as new patterns of violence in the era of globalization, violence against women and children, and the role of NGOs in monitoring, advocacy, and training for a culture of non-violence. For more information, contact the ODVV at: email: odvv@neda.net, or visit their website at: http://www.odvv.org.

TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, AND COURSES

Making a Difference: Everyday Change Strategies for Women

June 18 - 19, Boston, MA. This program is presented by Simmons College School of Management in Boston. It focuses on how the woman leader can apply strategies to exercise leadership and advocate constructive change in her organization without jeopardizing a hard-won career. A spectrum of action strategies will be introduced for learning about how one can live by her values and make a difference in a small but steady way and set examples from which others can learn. For more information: www.simmons.edu/gsm/exec_ed, Tel.: 617-521-3835, Fax: 617-521-3880.

Designing and Implementing Interventions for Global Change

August 19 - 23, New York, NY. This course is for those who are searching for a new way to address global problems that emphasizes respect for human rights, peaceful settlement of disputes, global ethics, values and systems that will secure greater ecological integrity, economic and social well being. Participants will learn an intervention process for a civil society response to complement and strengthen the United Nations' initiatives for meeting global challenges. For more information, contact: Institute for Global Leadership, Tel.: 508-753-7683, email: vswain@global-leader.org or visit their website at: www.global-leader.org.

Gender Training in Urban Planning and Management

September 20 - October 4, AIT, Thailand. Organized by the Gender and Development Studies (GenDev)and UMP-AIT Partnership in AIT, Thailand. Women and men use and experience living in the city in different ways. Gender roles and relations in urban areas, which intersect with other social, economic and political relations, constitute the spatial, organizational and socio-economic conditions of the city. Often, women are adversely affected by poor urban planning and management as they shoulder the responsibilities of sustaining livelihoods and the care of households on a daily basis. This has important implications for the ways in which cities are planned and managed. Thus it is necessary to increase the effectiveness of policy, planning and management by providing practitioners with the tools to integrate a gender perspective into their activities. The purpose of this workshop is to address the topics, including Land Use and Housing Management, Urban Services and Facilities, Transportation Planning/Management, Migration, etc. will be taken up. Field trips will be organized to different projects for hands on experience. The training will end with an analysis and synthesis session where each group analyzes one project from a gender perspective thereby drawing out the hidden assumptions behind policies in each sector and their impacts on women and other disadvantaged groups living in urban areas. For admission and reservations, please contact girija@ait.ac.th. Tel: (662) 524-6229, Fax: (662) 524-6166, Web: http://gendev.ait.ac.th.

Open and Virtual Learning Space on Mainstreaming Gender eQuality in the World of Work

Various dates. The International Labour Organisation is introducing a distance learning program to build basic competence in gender issues. The objective of the course is to provide participants with an easily accessible, adaptable set of training and information tools with which to bring gender equality concerns into the mainstream of labor-related development activities. For more information, contact the International Training Centre of the ILO Gender Co-ordination Unit, Tel.: +39-011-6936936, Fax: +39-011-6936350, email: gender@itcilo.it.

RESOURCES

BOOKS, REPORTS, & OTHER WRITTEN MATERIALS

Directory of Development Organizations 2002

The Directory of Development Organizations lists 25,000 contacts of organizations that offer "(non-) financial support, market access, information and advice to the enterprise and poverty-reducing sectors in low-income countries." Contact details include the organization's mail and street address, telephone and fax numbers, and email and Web page address (if available). This Directory is intended to provide a comprehensive source of reference for development practitioners, researchers, donor employees, and policy makers who are interested in private sector development and poverty alleviation, particularly in low-income countries. The directory can be found at www.devdir.org.

Earthscan Reader on NGO Management

Edited by: Michael Edwards and Alan Fowler. In the last ten years, NGOs have become a force for transformation in global politics and economics. Their numbers and size have grown dramatically and they have assumed far more extensive responsibilities as intermediaries between governments, businesses and other institutions, and local communities and citizens. With this growth has come an ever-more pressing requirement for effective management of their own operations. Focusing on development organizations working on issues of poverty and injustice, but relevant to NGOs in all sectors, this volume brings together crucial writings on how NGOs can deliberately position and organize themselves to achieve maximum impact and effectiveness in their work. For more information and to order the book, visit the Earthscan website at: www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3671

Financing for Development Gender Policy Briefing Kit

This publication is a joint project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO). The kit brings together background briefs and advocacy materials that have been developed by UNDP, UNIFEM, WEDO and its partners around FfD in a comprehensive package. The kit provides background on macroeconomic research, policy initiatives such as gender budgets, and available data on women in finance ministries, all to further promote the gender perspective on economic issues at the national level. It is available on-line at: http://www.wedo.org/ffd/kitintro.htm.

Foreign Assistance: USAID Relies Heavily on Nongovernmental Organizations, but Better Data Needed to Evaluate Approaches

This report from the U.S. Government Accounting Office provides: 1) a profile of USAID's use of private voluntary organizations; 2) analysis of the funding mechanisms USAID uses to employ these organizations; and 3) comparisons of USAID and other private and official donors' approaches to NGOs. The report identifies approaches to using NGOs that USAID has not adopted on a significant scale, including funding of proposals conceived and submitted independently by nongovernmental organizations. It can be accessed on-line at: http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-02-471.

Gender Analysis of Budgets ICRW/UNIFEM Background Brief January 2002

A national, regional, or local budget reflects a government's social and economic priorities more than any other instrument-the place where policies and programs are defined and translated into resource allocations. Examining budgets through a gender lens can help identify gaps in access to and distribution of public resources. Such budgets are not budgets formulated separately for men and women. Rather, the overarching objective of bringing gender analysis to budgets is to redefine priorities and reallocate relevant resources that respond to the needs of the entire population, taking explicit account of women's disadvantaged position. Gender-aware budgets promote both equity and efficiency. The Brief can be accessed at: www.unifem.undp.org

Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) - Women's Networking Support Programme

GEM is a guide to integrating gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for social change. It provides a means for determining whether ICTs are really improving women's lives and gender relations, as well as promoting positive change at the individual, institutional, community, and broader social levels. GEM does not contain step-by-step instructions to conducting evaluations. The guide provides users with an overview of the evaluation process (including links to general evaluation resources) and outlines suggested strategies and methodologies for incorporating a gender analysis throughout the evaluation process. To view the guide, visit: http://www.apcwomen.org/gem/.

Gender Mainstreaming for Invisibility or Women's Empowerment?

The Network Women in Development Europe (WIDE) announces the publication of this latest bulletin, which is a report of WIDE's Annual Conference 2001, hosted by the Spanish WIDE platform Grupo Mujeres y Desarrollo in Madrid. About 180 participants linked to the feminist movement all around the world attended this conference with the intention of analyzing and reflecting on the ways gender concerns and issues are currently integrated in policies and practices of institutions at different levels: national, regional and international. Moreover, the participants looked in a critical way at the role of the feminist movement within the process of gender mainstreaming and consequently wanted to address the link with bureaucracies and decision-makers. To obtain a copy of this report, contact Barbara Specht.

Global Development Finance: Financing the Poorest Countries 2002

This World Bank publication is a comprehensive look at the global economy for developing nations. Its two volumes provide a detailed, statistical view of all of the financial records that affected the growth and the fiscal outlook of developing countries. For the first time, this publication is available in three forms: CD-ROM, on-line, and print. For more information or to purchase a copy: www.worldbank.org/publications; Tel.: 800-645-7247 or 703-661-1580.

Human Rights of Women-International Instruments and African Experience

Editors: Wolfgang Benedek, Esther M. Kiyaakye, and Gerd Oberleitner. This book examines the African experience in trying to implement the international instruments dealing with the human rights of women. It covers human rights and gender issues, standards of equality, the work of the United Nations and other specialized agencies, and the European human rights system in comparison with other regional instruments. It focuses on the legal and administrative systems in African countries through which standards are implemented nationally and monitored internationally. For further information or to order, contact: Mohammed Umar, Tel.: +44 (0)20 7837 4014, Fax: +44 (0)20 7833 3960, email: sales@zedbooks.demon.co.uk, or visit the Zed Books website at: http://www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk/.

If Not Now, When? Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Refugee, Internally Displaced, and Post-Conflict Settings: A Global Overview

This publication of the Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium provides a baseline narrative account of some of the major issues, programming efforts, and gaps in programming related to the prevention of and response to gender-based violence among conflict-affected populations worldwide. For more information, go to www.rhrc.org.

International Development Statistics: 2002 Edition

Published by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD, this CD-ROM provides economists, researchers, and development workers with a unique source of up-to-date comparative development statistics and information. The CD-ROM can be ordered from www.oecd.org/bookshop and www.oecd.org/dac/stats. As of March 1, 2002, the International Development Statistics (IDS) Online Databases are also accessible free of charge. After submitting the request form, you will receive a user name and password valid for one year.

Population, Ageing and Development: Social, Health and Gender Issues

This is a special report from the Expert Group Meeting on Population Ageing and Development. Population ageing has become one of the most significant demographic processes of modern times. An inevitable consequence of the demographic transition and the shift to lower fertility and reduced mortality, the ageing of the world's population has many countries facing unprecedented numbers and proportions of older persons. As part of the preparatory activities leading up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) convened, in collaboration with the United Nations Programme on Ageing, AARP and HelpAge International. This publication provides a summary of the papers presented and the discussions, along with the meeting's conclusions and recommendations. The complete text of this UNFPA report is available online at: http://www.unfpa.org/publications/pubmain.htm.

Shifting Burdens: Gender and Agrarian Change Under Neoliberalism

Edited by Shahra Razavi/UNRISD. The contributors to this 2002 publication unravel the ways in which economic and social structures, institutions, and policy outcomes are affected by gender as a social relationship. Over the past ten years policy shifts in rural development across the globe have reduced the role of government and switched costs of services to the rural poor themselves. But what are the gender effects of this change? The regionally diverse case studies in this book provide an empirically grounded account of these changes, and allow a critical assessment of explicit and implicit premises in "gender and development" orthodoxy. For more information or to order visit Kumarian Press.

Social Security Privatization: A False Promise for Women

This publication is the annual Mother's Day Report from OWL: The Voice of Midlife and Older Women. The report addresses head-on the problem of privatization, explaining in detail why private accounts in Social Security won't work for women. This report contains public policy recommendations to improve both Social Security and the private pension system for women. For more information, or to order a copy: www.owl-national.org, Tel.: 800-825-3695 or 202-783-6686.

Violence Against Women: 10 Reports/Year 2001

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) launches its publication "Violence Against Women: 10 Reports/Year 2001" covering the situation of women in Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Ukraine, and Zambia. The publication forms part of the program's work in the field of integrating the human rights of women and a gender perspective into the activities of the United Nations human rights treaty monitoring bodies. For further information, contact: Carin Benninger-Budel or Joanna Bourke-Martignoni, Violence Against Programme, OMCT: email: cbb@omct.org or jb@omct.org.

Women Go Global CD-ROM: The United Nations and the International Women's Movement 1945-2000

This resource is an easy-to-use, interactive, multimedia CD-ROM about the events that have been shaping the international agenda for women's equality from the inception of the UN in 1945 to the year 2000. It offers women's groups, nongovernmental organizations, educators, journalists, and governments a compelling history of the struggle for gender equality through the UN. For orders from North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia and the Pacific, Tel.: 800-253-9646, 212-963-8302, Fax: 212-963-3489, email: publications@un.org. For orders from Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Tel.: 41 (22) 917-2614, Fax: 41 (22) 917-0027, email: unpubli@unog.ch.

Women, Men & Environmental Change: The Gender Dimensions of Environmental Policies & Programs

This publication highlights how gender differences play a part in natural resource use, how resource depletion affects women and men differently, and what has been done worldwide to integrate gender concerns in environmental planning. It can be accessed at: http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-4137.html

ONLINE MATERIALS

Vital Voices Global Network News

Vital Voices Global Network News has been developed as an electronic newsletter to share with members of the Vital Voices Global Network information about what women around the world are doing to advance the political, economic, and social status of women. For more information about Vital Voices Global Partnership, visit their website at www.vitalvoices.org. If you have information or news to share with Vital Voices and its Global Network, email: alysenelson@vitalvoices.org.

WEBSITES

Africa Pulse

This website is a news and information portal for the civil society sector in the Southern African Development Community. It relies on a "bottom-up" publishing structure, which means that organizations publish directly to the site. It can be accessed at: http://www.africapulse.org/.

End Violence Against Women

This service provides regular updates on information, materials, upcoming events, publications, and monitored discussions on issues relating to violence against women. Go to: http://www.endvaw.org/listserv.htm, or contact: endvaw@jhuccp.org.

Gender and Governance/KIT Gender website

KIT Gender announces its website devoted to Gender and Governance. The website is part of an international program on Gender, Citizenship, and Governance that KIT Gender is implementing together with 16 partner organizations from South Asia and Southern Africa. The website can be accessed at: http://www.kit.nl/gcg. For more information, contact: Sofia Karnehed.

Gender and ICTs - International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

IDRC announces a new Gender and ICTs website at: http://www.idrc.ca/pan/gender/. The IDRC is a public corporation created by the Canadian government to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research. The Gender and ICTs Webpage includes definitions of gender concepts as well as documents on such topics as: Gender, ICTs and Policy Processes; Is Information Technology Gender Neutral? Is Gender Mainstreaming a Cultural Imposition?

Siyanda Update: new e-newsletter on gender mainstreaming resources

The Siyanda Update is a monthly newsletter featuring the latest gender mainstreaming resources available on the website http://www.siyanda.org/. Siyanda aims at assisting busy gender practitioners with locating essential gender mainstreaming resources, quickly and easily. It is also an interactive space where gender practitioners can share ideas, experiences, and resources with like-minded colleagues. To subscribe to the "Siyanda Update," please go to: http://www.siyanda.org/subscribe.htm

The Girl Child

This website provides information and activities regarding girls, including stories and discussions. It is part of UNICEF's Voices of Youth section. It can be accessed at:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/gir/girhome.html

Women's Enews Delivers Information Daily

Women's Enews became an independent news agency on Jan. 1 after 18 months as a program of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, which was forced to cut back as a result of Sept. 11. To address the question of how women could fully participate in our democracy, if we did not have information about issues affecting us in our own society, we had to create our own news service-ask reporters to dig up and write about what women are saying and doing. And the Internet made it possible: for the first time in history, women could communicate easily and relatively inexpensively. Since its launch on June 15, 2000, Women's Enews has covered the news generated by world leaders. For more information, go to www.womensenews.org.

Women's WORLD website launched

Women's WORLD, a global free speech network of feminist writers, announces the launch of its website at http://www.wworld.org. It will give access to all the facets of the Women's WORLD mission, which is the global defense and encouragement of women's right to free expression. In addition to news and events, and information on the organization's history, affiliates, board, regional programs, and human rights work, the Women's WORLD website has the following special features: African Women's Voices; Voices for Peace in Israel-Palestine; The Crisis, writing on the global political and economic crisis from all over the world; and For Women Writers.

  AWARDS

Gleitsman Foundation Award to Honor International Activists

Established in 1989, the Gleitsman Foundation recognizes and encourages leadership in social activism worldwide. The Foundation's International Activist Award is designed to honor individuals in the international community who have inspired change and motivated others in the realm of social activism. The honorees will share $100,000 and will each receive a specially commissioned sculpture designed by Maya Lin, creator of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC. The award is presented every other year, alternating with the foundation's Citizen Activist Award, which is presented to U.S.-based activists. For 2003, the International Activist Award will focus on the eradication of poverty. Citizens from all countries (excluding the U.S.) are eligible to apply. Although the award is designed to recognize and honor widely varying forms of positive social activism, the winners must demonstrate exceptional perseverance, selflessness, and leadership in striving to combat social injustice in their communities, nations, or the world. See the Gleitsman Foundation website for complete guidelines and nomination procedures at www.gleitsman.org.

Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize: Call for Nominations

The prize was initiated in 1995 to recognize outstanding published research that furthers understanding of philanthropy, voluntary action, non-profits, and civil society in either the United States or abroad. Recipients of the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Prize are researchers and practitioners, who work in or with the voluntary sector, and through their work have achieved local, regional, national, or international impact and recognition. Two research prizes will be awarded: first prize: US$2,000, second prize: US$1,000. The nomination deadline for 2002 is June 15. For more information, visit the Independent Sector's website at: www.independentsector.org/programs/research/vah_research_prize.html.

Women In Action: Call for Articles

Isis International-Manila is coming out with the second issue for 2002 of its magazine, Women in Action, with the theme, "Women and Communication." They welcome articles on any of the following topics: Debates on digitalization of media; ICT and civil society; access to communication as a human rights/development index issue; internet rights; women's access and participation in ICT; the Southern perspective and/or analysis on women and communication; examination or investigation of who is funding communication projects with civil society; case studies of alternative communication models (ex. telecentres, community radio); models of convergence of mainstream communication technologies and new ICTs. Articles should be within 1,500 - 2,000 word range. Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2002. A modest honorarium will be provided for articles that get published. You may submit your articles by regular post, fax or email to: Irene R. Chia, Media and InfoCom Services Programme Associate, Isis International-Manila, Street address: 3 Marunong St., Bgy. Central, Quezon City 1100, Philippines, Fax: (63-2) 924-1065, email: irene@isiswomen.org, communications@isiswomen.org.