Resources about gender

Case studies and reports

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Loan case studies

BRIDGE
Development gender

Economic Political Weekly

Development effectiveness through gender mainstreaming: gender equality and poverty reduction in South Asia

European Union

• A roadmap for equality between women and men, 2006-2010
• Report on equality between women and men (2006)
• Women and men in decision-making - A question of balance (2006)

Gender and Water Alliance (GWA)

• Gender and IWRM resource guide
• Gender and water alliance

Global Development Network (GDN)

Gender issues in Armenia

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

• Engendering Better Policies: Two Decades of Gender Research from IFPRI
• Using Gender Research in Development
• Gender and Development - Bridging the Gap between Research and Action
• Women: Still the Key to Food and Nutrition Security
• Empowering Women to Achieve Food Security

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

• Gender and water: securing water for improved rural livelihoods - the multiple-uses system approach
• Gender and desertification: making ends meet in drylands
• Gender and desertification: expanding roles for women to restore drylands
• Thematic and country studies
• Redefining women's 'Samman': microcredit and gender relations in rural Bangladesh
• Factors that increase women's workloads- Nepal

Knowledge networking for rural development in Asia and the Pacific region (ENRAP)

• Impact of self-help groups on women's quality of life in West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India
• From savings to village development with self-help groups in India

MDGenderNet
Gender equality and the Millennium Development Goals

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Key gender related documents

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

• The story behind the numbers: women and employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western commonwealth of Independent States
• Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships
• Resource pack on gender and HIV/AIDS
• Domestic violence against women
• Women’s land and property rights in situations of conflict and reconstruction
• Towards achieving the MDGs in Sudan: centrality of women’s leadership and gender equality
• My life changed: female migration, perceptions and impacts
• Progress of the world’s women 2005: women, work and poverty

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Pro-poor and pro-women policies: operationalizing the MDGs in Albania

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

• State of world population 2005 - The promise of equality: gender equity, reproductive health and the MDGs
• Rights into action: UNFPA implements human rights-based approach

United Nations Statistics Division

The world's women 2005: progress in statistics

United Nations University (UNU)

The gender dimensions of post-conflict reconstruction: the challenges in development aid (2006)

World Bank

The gender dimension of bank assistance: an evaluation of results

World Economic Forum

Women’s empowerment: measuring the global gender gap

World Food Programme (WFP)

How fair is workfare? Gender, public works, and employment in rural Ethiopia (2005)

Glossaries and FAQ

Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)

Young women and leadership glossary

BRIDGE

Glossary on macroeconomics from a gender perspective

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
What is gender equality?

Gender water alliance (GWA)

FAQ gender and water

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Gender glossary

World Health Organization

Gender and reproductive rights

Good practices

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Good practices in gender mainstreaming and implementation of the Beijing Platform for action

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Good practices: gender mainstreaming in actions against child labour

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

• Good practices database for gender equality
• Guidelines for good practices

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Women and gender equality: best practices

Lessons learned

Asian Development Bank
Country gender assessment

Australian Government (AusAid)
Gender and development: lessons and challenges for the Australian aid programme

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Gender and food security: lessons learned

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

• Learning notes by region
• Gender perspective - Focus on the rural poor - An overview of gender issues in IFAD-assisted projects
• Gender mainstreaming: IFAD's experience in the Asia and the Pacific region and lessons learned
• Gender mainstreaming in IFAD-supported projects in West and Central Africa
• Food security, poverty and women: lessons from rural Asia
• Engendered mobilization, the key to livelihood security: IFAD's experience in South Asia
• Women's contribution to household food security
• Women's access to formal financial services
• Uganda, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire- the situation of widows
• Rural women's workload
• Improving women's access to land in the Upper East
• Informal financial services for rural women in the Northern region
• Lending for women's income-generating activities
• Rural women's micro and small enterprises
• A successful women's group initiative

Toolkits, guidelines and manuals

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Sectoral gender checklists

Canadian International Develpment Agency (CIDA)

• Resources and publications
• Other tools and resources

ELDIS

• Resource guide
• Regional and country gender profiles

European Commission
Toolkit on mainstreaming gender equality in community development cooperation

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

• Guidelines for incorporating the gender approach into rural development projects
• Household food security and gender memory checks
• Toolkit for practitioners
• A source book
• A manual for gender-focused field diagnostic studies
• Indicadores de género

International Labour Organization (ILO)
Gender equality tool

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Thematic guidelines on gender mainstreaming

Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS)
The gender and media handbook: promoting equality, diversity and empowerment

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

• DAC guidelines on gender equality and women's empowerment in development cooperation
• DAC source book on concepts and approaches linked to gender equality
• Empowerment, participation and gender
• Gender tipsheets
• Gender equality

Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC)

• Gender tool kit - Instruments for gender mainstreaming
• Specific tools

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

• Gender and HIV/AIDS
• Gender profiles of countries in conflict

 

Training

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Socio-economic and gender analysis programme handbooks

Gender water alliance (GWA)
Courses

International Labour Organization (ILO)

• Online training module on gender
• ILO gender, poverty and employment programme/programa modular sobre género, pobreza y empleo

Inter-Agency Workshop on Integration of Gender into Needs Assessment and Planning of Humanitarian Assistance (IASC)

Summary, guidelines and checklist for integration of gender analysis and assessment  

United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO)

Gender and peacekeeping operations in-mission training

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

• Literacy - A key to empowering women farmers
• Handbook for literacy and non-formal education facilitators in Africa

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