[WSIS CS-Plenary] Siyanda Update: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Tue Mar 9 17:39:04 GMT 2004

This looks like an excellent resource,

MG

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Siyanda Update: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Issue No. 19, March
2004
http://www.siyanda.org/
Past issues of the update are available at:
http://www.siyanda.org/archive.htm
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INDEX:
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I. Quick Guide: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
II. Country Focus: Uganda
III. Useful Websites: MDG GenderNet and Kenya Female Advisory
Organization (KEFEADO)
IV. Users' Corner: view latest user submissions on gender mainstreaming
and on gender budgets
V. Discussion Forum: contribute to the "Feminist Fables and Gender
Myths" and the "Sexuality" discussions
VI. New Siyanda feature: Users' Announcement section

I. Quick Guide: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) :
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The "Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)" are eight goals which set a
global development agenda to be achieved by 2015. Gender must be taken
into account if these are to succeed.

- Seeking Accountability on Women's Human Rights: Women Debate the
Millennium Development Goals, Women's Coalition for Economic Justice
(WCEJ), 2004
A collection of articles exploring whether the women's movement should
engage with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wcej_hrmdgs.htm

- Common Ground, Women's Access to Natural Resources and the United
Nations Millennium Development Goals, Women's Environment & Development
Organization (WEDO), 2003
This booklet highlights the linkages between the MDGs on poverty,
education and the environment and demonstrates the centrality of gender
to their effective implementation.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wedo_naturemdgs.htm

- Proceedings of the International Workshop on Gender Equality and the
Millennium Development Goals, World Bank (WB), 2003
This workshop brought together international development stakeholders to
explore various aspects of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)
debate.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wb_workshopmdgs.htm

- Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a
Gender Lens, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 2003
This scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows
that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/undp_mdgsgender.htm

- Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals, Gender and
Development Group, World Bank (WB), 2003
Gender equality is essential for reaching all the Millennium Development
Goals, not just goal three, "Promote gender equality and empower women".
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wb_genderequalitymdgs.htm

- Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the
Millennium Development Goals, United Nations Development Fund for Women
(UNIFEM), 2003
This volume examines the strengths and weaknesses of the MDGs in
tracking progress for women and suggests improvements and alternatives.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/unifem_progressmdgs.htm

Summaries written by BRIDGE Team members. More Siyanda resources on
Gender and MDGs can be found through the Simple Search function:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/.
To suggest a resource on this topic for possible inclusion on the Web
site, please fill-out the resource submission form:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/ You can also start a new discussion
topic on Gender and MDGs in the Siyanda "Participate" section:
http://www.siyanda.org/participate.shtml

II. Country Focus: Uganda
====================
Access key resources:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=uganda,
network with, or find consultants:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=uganda from this
country.

III. Useful Websites:
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- MDG GenderNet:
http://www.mdgender.net/
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GenderNet aims to promote and strengthen efforts to mainstream a gender
equality perspective in all of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),
not just Goal 3 "Promote gender equality and empower women". It does
this through providing access to key resources, tools, links and events
on the topic. For more information, please send an e-mail to the Content
Manager, GenderNet: ContentManager at mdgender.net

- Kenya Female Advisory Organization (KEFEADO):
http://www.kefeado.co.ke/
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Established in 1994, KEFEADO exists to enhance gender equity and equal
opportunities between females and males in Kenya. The NGO is active in
gender and education, gender and human rights, and gender and
socio-cultural/socio-economic issues, with a focus on the western part
of Kenya. For more information, please contact Dolphine M. A. Okech,
Founding Executive Director & Programs Coordinator:
kefeado at swiftkisumu.com

IV. Users' Corner:
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http://www.siyanda.org/userscorner/
Visit the Users' Corner and view the latest user submissions, including
a paper on gender mainstreaming and a report on gender budgets in South
Asia. Feel free to also use this space to share your ideas, interests
and experiences with other Siyanda users, and to post your short pieces
of work.

V. Latest Experts:
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Experts from or based in Nigeria, India, Congo, Russia, US, Thailand,
Australia, UK, Angola and Spain have recently entered their profiles in
the Gender Experts and Consultants Database, which currently contains
over 600 entries. Their areas of expertise include HIV/AIDS, gender
based violence, communications and rights, with skills in training and
capacity building, gender analysis and impact evaluation. You can search
the database http://www.siyanda.org/exps/ or add your own profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm

VI. Siyanda Discussion Forums:
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We invite you to engage in thought provoking dialogues on topical GAD
issues with users from diverse geographical, ideological and
professional backgrounds:

Sexuality Forum:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120031010045342
"Sexuality is part and parcel of every individual. Sexuality permeates
every facet of private and public life-rituals, rites, etc. The basis of
gender based norms and socialization is very well instituted and stems
from a society's expression and/or understanding of sexuality.
Therefore, development projects should address this key issue."
Excerpt from a recent posting to the forum.

Feminist Fables and Gender Myths:
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120031221123327
"Simple messages about women losing out through gender inequality SHOULD
be replaced by more complex truths and mature discussion which respects
people's anxieties about cultural imperialism, while highlighting the
need to support women and men working to challenge gender-based
inequality.
Excerpt from a recent posting to the forum.

(If you do not have easy or cheap Internet access, please e-mail your
contribution to: siyanda at ids.ac.uk and we will post it on the forum for
you).

VI. New Siyanda feature: Users' Announcement board
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Due to popular demand, Siyanda now features a Users' Announcements
section dedicated to promoting your events. We hope that you will put it
to good use!
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120040105020249

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