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Gender Equality, HIV and AIDS: Challenges for the Education Sector
2008How can schools help transform unequal gender relations in order to protect young people against HIV and AIDS? How can schools contribute to caring for those who are infected and affected by the virus? This book tackles these questions, examining the challenges of working for gender equality in the education sector in contexts of HIV and AIDS.DocumentLiteracy, Gender and Social Agency: Adventures in Empowerment. A Research Report for ActionAid UK
Department for International Development, UK, 2003The notion of 'empowering' poor and marginalised women has a great deal of commonsense appeal. It may seem obvious that anyone would benefit from increased self-confidence, the ability to act effectively in the public sphere, to control one's income, to plan for the future.DocumentEducation as a Means for Empowering Women
Routledge, London, 2002Education is often seen as the key to women's empowerment. This chapter discusses how the concept of empowerment has been applied in formal schooling with young students, and in non-formal education programmes with mostly adult populations.DocumentPlacing Gender Equity in the Family Centre Stage: Use of 'Kala Jatha' Theatre
Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003Women's empowerment does not necessarily take place when incomes are generated, when livelihoods are enhanced or when groups are formed. This is because within families and households, hierarchies and structures do not alter. In fact, public interventions which result in new social activity or new avenues of income generation can actually accentuate tensions within households.DocumentAdolescent Sexuality Education and Women's Visibility: the Linkages from the Girls? Power Initiative Nigeria Experience
BRIDGE, 2005The Girl Power Initiative (GPI) in Nigeria takes girls through a three year sexuality education programme aimed at promoting their personal empowerment, sexual health and leadership skills. This paper incorporates the voices of GPI girls, GPI graduates, their parents and community members to demonstrate the impact of sex education on girls in Nigeria.DocumentThe Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP) Utilizing State Resources to Promote Women's Human Rights in Turkey
New Tactics in Human Rights Project, 2005This notebook uses the case of Turkey to show how building collaborative relationships with government institutions can advance human rights education. Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR)-New Ways, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Turkey gained the support and use of government resources for furthering human rights education of women at the local level.DocumentThe pleasure project: global mapping of pleasure
The Pleasure Project, 2004How can a focus on pleasure help promote safer sex? The Pleasure Project mapped initiatives taken around the world which use pleasure as a primary motivation for promoting sexual health.DocumentComputer Tool: Girls' Education Designing for Success
World Bank, 2005This is a tool to help policymakers, planners, educators, researchers, managers and other development specialists to create practical country-led and country-specific plans for educating girls.DocumentThe ABC of Gender Responsive Education Policies - Guidelines for Developing Education for All Action Plans
2003How can gender-sensitive education policies be assessed, designed, implemented and monitored? These guidelines designed to support the FAWE's national representatives, address a perceived gap in the technical tools needed in order to carry out gender mainstreaming in national education policies.