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Female genital cutting
Tostan, 2014Female genital cutting (FGC) is a deeply-rooted social norm enforced by community expectations around marriageability. Girls who are not cut are often ostracised by their communities. Tostan is an African-based organisation empowering rural communities to achieve sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights.DocumentDiccionario de la transgresión feminista (Español)
Just Associates, 2012Dentro del contexto local-a-global de la acción ciudadana, varias activistas y académicas acordaron quDocumentNew actors, new money, new conversations: a mapping of recent initiatives for women and girls
Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013Over the past several years, investing in women and girls as ‘smart economics’ has become a favored strategy in development and philanthropy. This has precipitated a host of campaigns and initiatives, including new private-sector involvement, dedicated to supporting women and girls.DocumentGender equality monitoring report
Philippines-Canada Cooperation Office, 2010This Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Philippines Program monitoring report highlights the gender-specific improvements, issues and challenges of its projects between July 2009 and June 2010.DocumentLos derechos de las mujeres en clave feminista: Experiencias del Cladem
Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru, 2009In 2009, the Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights) (CLADEM) celebrated 20 years of fighting for women’s rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.DocumentA Quick Guide to Using Gender Sensitive Indicators: A Reference Manual for Governments and Other Stakeholders
Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999This guide aims to assist governments in the selection, use and dissemination of gender-sensitive indicators at the national level. It is also relevant to non-governmental organisations (NGOs), women's groups, professional associations, academics and others committed to promoting gender equality.DocumentBRIDGE Report 40: Gender and empowerment: definitions, approaches and implications for policy
BRIDGE, 1997What is women's empowerment' If women are empowered, does that mean that men have less power' Empowerment has become a new 'buzzword' in international development language but is often not well understood. This paper explains the different understandings of empowerment, and how empowerment strategies should be designed.DocumentDAC Source Book on Concepts and Approaches Linked to Gender Equality
DAC Network on Gender Equality, 1998This background document is divided into two sections. The first defines key concepts and approaches and the second provides a selected list of materials on various themes within gender and development. The key concepts cover a wide range of development issues and are not only gender-specific.DocumentGENIA Toolkit For Promoting Gender Equality in Education
2004How can education in Asia become more gender sensitive? The GENIA toolkit provides a collection of practical resources for gender focal points in Asian Ministries of Education (MoE). It aims to build the technical capacity of gender focal points to mainstream gender at national and regional levels.DocumentGender, Citizenship and Nationality Training Pack
2003This training pack is based on learning from various field training initiatives as well as case studies drawn from CRTD's empirical research. The objectives of the pack are to develop a greater understanding of the concepts and applications of gender, citizenship and nationality; and to generate discussion about how individuals, particularly women, are excluded from citizen rights.Pages
