Documents and Tools

The Socio-economic And Gender Analysis Programme

This tool was established in 1993 to promote gender awareness when meeting development challenges. One of its main goals is to increase awareness of and sensitivity towards gender issues, as well as to strengthen the capacity of development specialists to incorporate socio-economic and gender analysis considerations into development planning

FAO Plan of Action for Women in Development

The Plan, adopted by the FAO Conference in 1995, outlines a framework for integrating a gender perspective within all FAO programmes and activities for the years 1996 through 2001.

Gender perspective: focus on rural poor

This book is an overview of gender issues in IFAD-assisted projects, responding to the last 20 years IFAD’s strategy of taking a gender perspective to illuminate the nature of rural poverty.

Gender and AIDS

In most societies girls and women are often poorly informed about reproduction and sex, which implicates a weak awareness about sexual risk and HIV/STD prevention. This on-line guide by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS reviews the efforts in development initiatives to address gender issues as a key component of reducing vulnerability to AIDS.

Working with women and men in human settlement development

This comprehensive policy paper describes the function and activities of the United Nations Center for Human Settlements (UNCHS-Habitat), outlines the objectives of the Women in Human Settlements Programme and proposes a comprehensive policy and action plan for gender sensitive human settlements development.

Providing Education to Girls from Remote and Rural Areas: Advocacy brief

This policy brief documents how boarding schools have been used in order to ensure access to education for children who might otherwise be deprived of it.

The Hague Forum: enhancing gender equality, equity and empowerment of women

This section of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) website, provides all the findings and conclussions related to gender equality from the final report of the Special Session of the International Conference on Population and Development (30 June to 2 July 1999).

Women’s health

The aim of this technical paper is to explore some of the implications of the shift from the 'women in development' (WID) to the 'gender and development' (GAD) approach for the analysis of health and health care issues in general and for the work of the World Health Organization (WHO) in particular.

Agricultural Censuses and Gender Considerations - Concept and Methodology

A clear identification of men's and women's specific situations and a quantification of their economic and social contributions is needed, particularly in the agricultural sector. Partly in response, FAO's Women and Population and Statistics Divisions prepared this document within the context of the programme for the World Census of Agriculture 2000.

ILO Gender Network Orientation Kit

The ILO Gender Network Orientation Kit is designed to assist ILO Gender Focal Points in their role of gender mainstreaming "catalysts", and is divided into four areas: ILO Vision on Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming, Implementation and Measuring Progress, ILO Gender Network Contacts and Terms of Reference and Support, Resources and Tools.

UNESCO: Providing Education to Girls from Remote and Rural Areas: Advocacy brief

This policy brief documents how boarding schools have been used in order to ensure access to education for children who might otherwise be deprived of it.

Global Fund for Women

The Global Fund for Women, an international network of women and men committed to a world of equality and social justice, advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.

Dimitra project

The Dimitra project is a full database developed since 1998 by FAO, the Belgian Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGCI) and the King Baudoin Foundation on information about projects concerning rural women.

Women and Population Division in FAO

The FAO Women in Development Service works to eliminate legal constraints to women's access to resources, helps re-orient extension systems to address the needs of both rural women and men, sponsors gender analysis training and analyses, and disseminates data disaggregated by sex.

IFAD: gender and household food security

This website illustrates IFAD's evolving approaches to gender and household food security, demonstrating how the approaches have developed in recent years and how they differ across regions.

Gender Promotion Programme by the International Labour Office (ILO)

This website provides advancing knowledge and some case studies on direct action in developing countries on the promotion of more and better employment for women.

Incorporating gender in UNICEF’s programmes: Viet Nam

This is an example of how UNICEF’s integrated Gender and Development Programme has provided a number of beneficial projects for women, such as small loans for income generation, communication activities to promote nutrition, education, and good maternal and child care practices, functional literacy education to enhance basic life skills and production skills, and advocacy activities to enhance women's status on a national scale.

World Bank Group: Gender & Rural Development

This website contains tools, good practices, studies and key concepts to describe the effort to promote systematic integration of gender concerns into the World Bank's rural development activities

WFP focus on women fights the global war on hunger

Under the title ‘focus on women’ the United Nations World Food Programme explains why they have an special commitment to helping women gain equal access to life's basic necessity.

Links

FAO: Gender and Food Security

This website relates women to a short list of themes such as agriculture, forestry, nutrition, rural economics, division of labour, fisheries... within the framework of FAO.

FAO Gender Dimensions in Natural Ressources Management Website

The purpose of this site is to share information emerging from FAO Women and Population Division (SDW ). The aim of the Division's work is to enhance understanding among rural people, development practitioners, researchers and decision-makers about these issues and upgrade their skills to use gender-sensitive and participatory approaches.

Women Watch of United Nations

WomenWatch is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. Founded in 1997 by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), it monitors the results of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995).

Gender in development in UNDP

The gender section of the UNDP website offers data, statistics, good practices, policies and programmes on the Gender in Development Programme set up in 1987. Here you can find also information on the international conference Beijing+5 on Gender Equality, Development and Peace.

United Nations Development Fund for Women

UNIFEM works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional and global agendas.

Gender statistics of the World Bank

A useful site providing comprehensive datas related to gender and development organized by country and by topics such as education, health, labor force structure and gender profile.

Refugee Women

This chapter of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNHCR) website provides some guidelines on the Protection of Refugee Women and some documents like the Dialogue with Refugee Women (Geneva, 20-22 June 2001) or the Conference on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (Geneva 27-29 March 2001).

MSU Global Access

MSU Global Access is an Internet portal to information selected by experts of the Michigan State University Office of International Studies and Programs. It contains a database of links to Websites, features country specific pages, maps, and international news.

The UN System and Women’s Status

The website provides information on various UN System programmes and initiatives aiming at improving of women’s status.