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Gender, Development, and Advocacy   Editors Contents Links Other Titles Oxfam information

Editors

Koos Kingma is Gender and Diversity Adviser, Novib Oxfam Netherlands. Caroline Sweetman is Editor of Gender & Development journal.

Contents

Contents (PDF 26KB)

Editorial - Koos Kingma and Caroline Sweetman (PDF 64KB)

A guide to feminist advocacy - Kristy Evans (PDF 85KB)

Politics at work: transnational advocacy networks and the global garment industry - Shae Garwood (PDF 91KB)

Gender networking and advocacy work in Uganda: controlling the agenda and strategies of resistance - Mary Ssonko Nabacwa (PDF 71KB)

The African Women's Protocol: a new dimension for women's rights in Africa - Rose Gawaya and Rosemary Semafumu Mukasa (PDF 75KB)

A voice of our own: advocacy bu women with disability in Australia and the Pacific - Therese Sands (PDF 87KB)

Advocacy for an end to poverty, inequality, and insecurity: feminist social movements in Pakistan - Khawar Mimtaz (PDF 68KB)

Advocacy training by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS - Emma Bell (PDF 83KB)

Resources: Publications, Electronic resources, Organisations - Compiled by Kanika Lang (PDF 76KB)

Related links

• Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy.
• The Association for Women's Rights in Development is an international membership organisation connecting, informing, and mobilising people and organisations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development, and women's human rights.
• Womankind Worldwide is a UK-based charity dedicated to women's development and women's human rights globally.
• Women in Development Europe (WIDE) is a European network of development NGOs, gender specialists, and human rights activists. It monitors and influences international economic and development policy and practice from a feminist perspective.
• Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ) is an international coalition working to link gender with macro-economic policy in international inter-governmental policy-making arenas, from a human-rights perspective.
• Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO) is an international advocacy network seeking to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers in governance and in policymaking institutions, forums and processes, at all levels, to achieve economic and social justice, a peaceful and healthy planet, and human rights for all.
• Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace empowers women and girls in the Global South to re-imagine and re-structure their roles in their families, communities, and societies. WLP achieves this goal through providing leadership training, supporting capacity building, and helping women use new technologies to generate and receive information and knowledge.
• The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) - the first Africa-wide fundraising and grant-making fund, which aims to support the work of organisations working to promote women's rights in Africa.
• The Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) is an independent, non-governmental advocacy and lobbying organisation based in Cape Town. They have adopted the role of 'policy midwives', by translating the legal jargon of legislation into accessible language so that marginalised women can advocate and lobby for themselves.
• Isis International is a feminist NGO dedicated to women's information and communication needs, with three independent offices in Asia (Manila, Philippines), Africa (Kampala, Uganda) and Latin America (Santiago, Chile), reflecting a commitment towards South-South cooperation and South-North linkages.
• The Center for Women's Global Leadership (Global Center) develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.
• The Global Women's Strike was born in 1999, when women in Ireland decided to welcome the new millennium with a national general strike. Since then, they have been campaigning to get recognition and wages for all the unwaged work women do, as well as for pay equity.
• Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) is an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.
• Research Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO)- an African-led international non-governmental organisation working on issues of women's empowerment, gender, reproductive health, sexual autonomy and freedom from violence as central components of the African development agenda.
• The Fawcett Society - one of the UK's leading organisations that campaigns for equality between women and men.
• Equality Now works with national human rights organisations and individual activists to document violence and discrimination against women and mobilizes international action to support their efforts to stop these human rights abuses.
• The Network of East-West Women (NEWW) is an international communication and resource network supporting dialogue, informational exchange, and activism among those concerned about the status of women in Central and Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States, and the Russian Federation.
• The Feminist Majority Foundation is dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically.

Other Oxfam Titles

• Other titles from the Oxfam Focus on Gender series
• Women's Rights

• Gender, Citizenship and Governance
• Advocacy for Social Justice
• Development and Advocacy
• Beyond Civil Rights

Oxfam Information

• Oxfam's work on Gender Equality

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