1.- Second Meeting of the Consultative Group in Preparation for CONFINTEA VI

http://www.unesco.org/uil/en/nesico/confintea/confintea.htm 


UNESCO
Institute for Lifelong Learning

Second Meeting of the Consultative Group in Preparation for CONFINTEA VI
Hamburg, 21 to 23 November 2007

UNESCO’s 6th International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) will take place in May 2009 in Brazil. The preparatory process, conference and follow-up will enable a global review of the state of the art of adult education and learning, and will serve as a sounding board for the most relevant and emerging political, cultural, social and economic issues in relation to international education and development. CONFINTEA VI will offer the opportunity to articulate adult education and learning with the major current international policy frameworks in relation to education and development: the Education for All (EFA) goals and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as well as the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD), the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (LIFE) and the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD).

Finally, CONFINTEA VI will engage in producing the tools (e.g. benchmarks) to ensure that previous and future commitments to adult education and learning are implemented.
To steer the preparatory process and to give advice in all matters related to the conception and planning of the conference, a Consultative Group has been formed consisting of education experts representing UNESCO Member States, UN agencies, development agencies, international or regional non-governmental organizations; academics, the CONFINTEA VI host country and UNESCO (Headquarters, Regional Bureaus and UIL). While the first meeting in Elsinor, Denmark (1 -2 March 2007) focused on the vision and overall orientation of CONFINTEA VI, the main preparatory strategies and planning of initial steps, the second meeting will concentrate on taking stock of overall developments, planning regional preparations and respective conferences, reviewing the development of benchmarks, the guidelines for national reports and preparations for a Global Adult Education Report. The CONFINTEA VI Roadmap, which was outlined in the first meeting, will be revised, concretized and refined on the basis of deliberations. The Roadmap and other results will be made available in a report.

Contact: Bettina Bochynek (b.bochynek@unesco.org )

 

2.- Commission of Inquiry calls for Evidence on Adult Learning and Demographic Change

http://www.niace.org.uk/news/PressReleases/PR48.07.pdf


NIACE Press Release
22nd November 2007

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY CALLS FOR EVIDENCE ON ADULT LEARNING AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE

The Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, sponsored by NIACE, is putting out a public call for evidence on adult learning and demographic change. Interested individuals and organisations are invited to submit written evidence to the Commission by 18th December 2007.

Over the next few decades, the nature of the British population will change, in terms of numbers, age mix and ethnic origin. These demographic changes are likely, in turn, to produce changes in the need and demand for adult learning. Some of these have been explored in the preliminary paper submitted to the Commission - Demography and Adult Learning - which can be found at: http://www.lifelonglearninginquiry.org.uk/Evidence-demography.htm

This paper identifies six likely demographic changes:

• the growing dependent elderly population;
• the expanding ‘third age’;
• changing mid-life patterns;
• new and deferred patterns of labour market entry;
• cultural and ethnic mix;
• geographical divisions.

The Commission is interested in understanding how each change might affect:

• the needs and demands for adult learning;
• who will participate in learning;
• the content of programmes;
• delivery modes;
• institutional and funding structures.

Ends

For further information please contact:
Ed Melia, NIACE Press Officer, on 0116 204 4248 or 07795 358 870.


Notes to Editors

1. Evidence to the Independent Commission of Inquiry should be submitted to: Fiona Aldridge, NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE1 7GE or email: lifelonglearninginquiry@niace.org.uk

2. Evidence submitted becomes the property of the Independent Commission, and may be printed or circulated by the Commission at any stage. Personal contact details supplied to the Commission will, however, be removed before publication. If you do not wish for your submission to be made public, please state this clearly at the start of your submission. Witnesses may publicise their written evidence themselves, but in doing so should indicate that it was prepared for the Commission.

3. The purpose of the Commission of Inquiry into the future for lifelong learning is to identify best practice in the UK and internationally across each of the key arenas in which adult learning makes a significant contribution, to identify the values, principles and practical steps needed to give life to life-long and life-wide learning for all communities of the UK.

4. Further information about the work of the Commission of Inquiry into the future for lifelong learning can be found at: http://www.lifelonglearninginquiry.org.uk

5. The Chair of the Commission is Professor Sir David Watson, historian and Professor of higher education management at the Institute of Education, University of London and a member of the Board of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

6. The members of the Commission are:

Carol Bannerman Principal, Bolton College
John Field Director for the Division of Academic Innovation and
Continuing Education, University of Stirling
Bob Fryer National Director for Widening Participation in Lifelong
Learning, Department of Health
Leisha Fullick Pro-Director, Institute of Education.
Clare Hannah Learning and Development Director, First Bus Group
Murziline Parchment Director of Major Projects and Service, Greater London
Authority
Teresa Rees Pro-Vice Chancellor, Cardiff University
David Sherlock President of NIACE
Nick Stuart Chair, NIACE Company Board
Tom Wilson Head of Organisation Services, TUC

7. The National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE) is the leading non-government organisation for lifelong learning in England, and exists to encourage more and different adults to engage in better-quality learning of all kinds and campaigns for, and celebrates the achievements of, all adult learners.

National Institute of Adult Continuing Education
www.niace.org.uk

 

3.- November 25th & 16 Days of Activism

http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/vaw/16days.php 

Say NO to Violence against Women!

This year marks the 17th anniversary of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence — an international campaign originating from the first Women's Global Leadership Institute in 1991, when participants chose the dates November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and December 10, International Human Rights Day, in order to symbolically emphasize that violence against women is a human rights violation. The 16 Days Campaign has been embraced as an organizing strategy by a broad spectrum of individuals and groups around the world to call for the elimination of all forms of violence against women through activities ranging from media programmes to demonstrations, conferences, exhibitions and performances.

The overarching theme of this year’s campaign — Demanding Implementation, Challenging Obstacles — indicates that while there has been much progress made, challenges persist that hinder the effectiveness of efforts by activists and organizations to prevent and respond to the violence women suffer everywhere around the globe. The 16 Days Campaign seeks to help dismantle obstacles and overcome challenges posed by social attitudes and policies that condone and perpetuate gender-based violence.
Its starting date, November 25th, was chosen in honour of the Mirabal sisters, political activists from the Dominican Republic who were assassinated on the same day in 1961. The three sisters were murdered for their efforts to oppose dictatorship in their country, and their legacy of bravery and compassion has made them national and international heroines.

It was in 1999 that the United Nations officially joined the campaign by designating 25 November the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (resolution 54/134). This followed on from a 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, in which the UN General Assembly resolved “that violence against women constitutes a violation of the rights and freedoms of women” and identified “a need for ... commitment by the international community at large to the elimination of violence against women.” UN agencies have since partnered with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governments to conduct regional campaigns to raise awareness and mobilize community action. UNIFEM, as part of its deep involvement in the global fight to eradicate violence against women, has taken the lead in coordinating several UN inter-agency campaigns in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the CEE/CIS region, to foster and promote innovative strategies to address the issue.

Copyright © 2007 United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)





4.- Gearing up for World AIDS Day 2007
 

UNAIDS: http://www.unaids.org/en/MediaCentre/PressMaterials/FeatureStory/20071113_gearingup_WAD_2007.asp


Gearing up for World AIDS Day 2007

13 November 2007

This year, World AIDS Day—that takes place on December 1— will focus on leadership, the theme set by the World AIDS Campaign under the five-year slogan “Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise”.

With less than a month to go before this year's World AIDS Day, events to commemorate the day are being organized all over the world. This year, World AIDS Day—that takes place on December 1— will focus on leadership, the theme set by the World AIDS Campaign under the five-year slogan “Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise”.

World AIDS Day is a day when people from around the world come together within a single effort to raise awareness about HIV and to express global solidarity with people living with HIV. But World AIDS day is not just about raising awareness. It also provides a global opportunity to urge governments and leaders for all promises on AIDS to be kept as well as an opportunity to demonstrate commitment and action on AIDS.

In designating leadership as the World AIDS Day theme for the next two years (2007 – 2008), the World AIDS Campaign highlights both the political leadership needed to fulfill commitments that have been made in the response to AIDS – particularly the promise of universal access to treatment, prevention, care and support – and celebrating the leadership that has been witnessed at all levels of society.

In preparation for this year’s World AIDS Day, the World AIDS Campaign has produced a wide range of new materials to be used by people and organizations that want to set up their own events on World AIDS Day. These materials are available on the World AIDS Campaign Web site. World AIDS Campaign materials are intended to provide organizations who have limited resources with access to meaningful campaigning materials as well as enhancing solidarity within the global response to AIDS by working through a united effort.

The materials available consist of posters, leaflets and CD-ROMs in a number of languages, including French, Spanish, Russian, Swahili and English. Other language versions, particularly African languages, are also offered via electronic distribution. The printed posters and CD-ROMs can also be ordered from the World AIDS Campaign web site.

The web site also has a calendar of events where more and more organizations are now listing information on their planned activities for World AIDS Day so people can browse the different events planned in their country or region.

For the 2007 celebrations, the World AIDS Campaign has also produced, in collaboration with UNAIDS, a public service announcement on this year’s leadership theme that is being distributed to promote the day and/or can be shown during events.

UNAIDS founded the World AIDS Campaign originally as a loose partnership of UN agencies, governments and all sectors of civil society to campaign around specific themes related to AIDS. The World AIDS campaign is now an independent NGO based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is governed by a Global Steering Committee of global constituency-based AIDS networks comprised of the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS, the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, the Youth Coalition, the Global Unions Programme on HIV/AIDS, the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations, the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, and the International Women’s AIDS Caucus. UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria are non-voting members.

 

5.- Another Europe Begins Here - From strategies to actions for another Europe

Welcome to Malmö 2008 for the next European Social Forum!

The European Social Forum (ESF) is by far the largest European space for organisations, movements, networks and individuals engaged in building a more sustainable, democratic and equitable society.
Tens of thousands of activists and a broad range of organisations come together to share experiences, debate ideas – and not the least to formulate proposals and to build new alliances for mobilisation and effective action. ESF is about changing Europe – not merely to contemplate the situation of today.
Among the participants are trade unions, migration networks, environmental organisations, feminist organisations, the global justice movement, peace networks, human rights organisations, academics, youth organisations – and many more.
ESF is the regional counterpart of World Social Forum. It was first held in Florence 2002, lastly in Athens 2006. Together the forums have been attended by over 150 000 participants and joined thousands of organizations and networks determined to make another Europe possible.

The 5th European Social Forum in Malmö, 17-21 September 2008
The Nordic organising committee welcomes you to Malmö, southern Sweden. Scandinavia, with its tradition of peoples’ movements, relative gender justice and a strong welfare state – all under fire from neoliberalism and corporate driven globalisation – will clearly be a new inspiring environment for the ESF.
During four days there will be workshops, seminars, debates, manifestations, films, music, art – and a lot of room for strategic thinking and alliance building. Minimum 20.000 people are expected.
Reversing growing inequalities in and between European countries, seriously combating climate change, decent labour laws, public services for all, real migrants rights, real European democracy, gender justice, changing Europe’s global agenda. The list can be made much longer – and the tasks are urgent.
But the opportunity is also there. We know that strong alliances of European movements and organisations can and will change the path of Europe.
Six years after the first ESF Malmö will provide for a new energy kick for the forum. Take the chance to be part of the process, forming the strategies and actions for another Europe!

How?
The forum is by large constructed both for and by its participants.
- As group or organisation: Be part and shape the forum! Propose workshops, experience sharing or network meetings for the forum. Take part and make contacts. Mobilise locally, in your organisation and country.
- As individual: Welcome! Participate at the forum, join workshops, seminars, strategic building of alliances and actions, or work as a volunteer during the forum.

Contact
esf2008@gmail.com

More information
http://www.fse-esf.org/
http://www.esf2008.org/
 

6.- UNDP Calls for Aid to Women and Girls in Crisis

http://www.undp.org/cpr/we_do/8_pa_press_release.shtml 

LONDON/NEW YORK, 8 November 2007 -- Conditions of women in crisis have reached a critical point said UNDP today. The organization’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery called for 10 million USD to help women and girls in crisis for the next two years. The funding is vital to scale up a groundbreaking new strategy that addresses the needs of women affected by conflicts and natural disasters, UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Crisis Bureau Kathleen Cravero said.

Endorsed by UNDP and its partners in countries, the Eight Point Agenda for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Crisis Prevention is transforming the way the organization does business. This comprehensive approach outlines steps to address the long-term needs of women and girls in crisis, whether they are survivors of earthquakes, tsunamis, or militias that use rape and brutality as a tactic of war.
“Neglecting women and girls in crises makes no sense from a development perspective,” said Kathleen Cravero speaking from London. “Not only do we fail to address the needs of half the population, we also fail to gain from their insights and resourcefulness during the critical stages of the recovery process.”

Indeed, few recognize how disproportionately women suffer during crisis – whether it is the result of violence or natural disaster. After the waters of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami receded, for example, many regions found that the death toll among women was three to four times greater than among men. In some villages, only a handful of women survived. And those who survived were often excluded from any decision-making process in the recovery effort.

In times of crisis women have shown extraordinary resolve and strength, whether forming networks to provide vital services that were destroyed during the conflict, or joining together to promote peace and reconciliation.
“One of the most common and disturbing images of war is of women uprooted from their homes and communities, reeling from the effects of sexual violence and struggling to provide for their children in the harshest of environments,” said Cravero.
“But if we continue to see women only as victims – and not as problem solvers and decision-makers – we do so at their peril, and at the peril of peace. We need to seize opportunities to “build back better” during the recovery period. Realizing the Eight Point Agenda will help achieve this goal,” she added.

In brief, the eight points of the agenda are: protecting women from violence in crisis; ensuring women have access to justice; strengthening women’s voices and representation; building peace with and for women; promoting gender equality; putting women’s needs first in the recovery effort; urging governments to work for women; and strengthening women’s networks in crisis.

For background information:
Activities included in the roll out of the Eight Point Agenda for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Crisis Prevention include:
1. Increasing women’s security by enhancing the gender component of security institutions (in El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Honduras, Kenya, Liberia, Philippines, South Sudan and South Eastern Europe);
2.- Supporting the reintegration of women and girls associated with armed forces and groups;
3.- Improving women and girls’ access to legal aid and strengthening justice institutions to fight impunity; training lawyers, judges, police officers and social workers on legal representation and counseling of survivors of sexual violence;
4.- Establishing safe centers for victims of human rights abuses to gain access to information on domestic laws;
5.- Ensuring women are included when analyzing conflict related responses (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria);
6.- Building a global network of experts on gender and disaster risk reduction that would be dispatched to high-risk countries;
7.- Collecting and analyzing data on women in crisis (DRC, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon, Nepal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda).

For more information, contact:
Jehane Sedky, Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery, +1 212 906 6711,
+1 212 729 8257 (cell), jehane.sedky@undp.org

 

7.- "Advanced Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation" Training Course

AWID Resource Net: resource.awid.org *

The International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC): Training
Course: "Advanced Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation"

January 28-February 1, 2008
Oxford, UK

Description

There are limits to the more traditional monitoring and evaluation (M and E) methods, based on cause and effect interpretations of social development. During this course it will explored how to develop a cost-effective monitoring and evaluation system. Such a system has as its objective the generation of a sufficient, but not excessive, quality of
data, and enough information to provide a development agency with a reliable understanding of the outputs, effects and impacts of capacity building processes.

Objectives:

- Develop an understanding of the characteristics of a good M&E system
- Review how M and E systems indicate if a project is being implemented as planned
- Understand the importance of, and ensure the use of effective participatory methods
- Explore how participation and empowerment contributes to effective M and E systems
- Explore in depth issues around impact assessment and the monitoring and evaluation of intangibles

Residential course, which includes course materials, accommodation, refreshments and meals during the course.

Course fee: £999.00

For further information (including application form), please visit
http://www.intrac.org/training.php?id=87 

* RESOURCE NET is brought to you by The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)

 

8.- Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War, and Social Justice

http://www.wunrn.com
http://www.yorku.ca/arm/MotheringViolence.html

CALL FOR PAPERS

Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
12th Annual Conference

Mothering, Violence, Militarism, War, and Social Justice
October 23-25, 2008
We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, artists, NGOs, community agencies, service providers, journalists, mothers and others who work or research in this area. Cross-cultural, historical, and comparative work is encouraged. We encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, storytelling, visual arts, and other alternative formats.
Topics can include (but are not limited to): Nationalism, militarism, and motherhood; violence against mothers and children; mothers and war across history and culture; motherhood and terrorism; mothers and human rights; peace building and peace/anti-militarism activism by mothers; peace keeping strategies of mothers; mothers against militarism; marriage, motherhood, and pregnancy in the military; Maternal Thinking; the Ethics of Care/the Politics of Peace; women writers and the critique of war; rhetoric of masculinity and violence against mothers; teaching social justice in the classroom as mothering for peace; educating children about war; parenting in war; teaching non-violence to children; mothers’ roles in post-conflict reconstruction; state violence against mothers; racism, ethnicity, and peace; impact of prolific small arms and light weapons on women; female suicide-bombers; women's contributions to (formal) peace agreements; suffering and survival of mothers in war; mothers and the dismantling of apartheid; mothers as activists in violent conflicts or militarized zones; roles of mothers in conflict; mothers as journalists during wartime; impact of violent conflict on mothers as refugees (asylum seekers and/or internally displaced persons); mothers of sons and/or daughters who serve in the military; gender-based violence of women in war and conflict; mothering and loss (of husbands/children); children and loss of mothers; mothers and children left behind in military communities: mothers who kill; domestic violence against mothers; the war on mothers; rape and/as terrorism; aboriginal mothers/children and residential schooling; social justice organizations for mothers (from MADD to Mothers Against War); patriotic mothering; activist mothering; representations/images of mothers and violence, war, and social justice issues; public policy and mother activists; legal responses to mother activists; reproductive violence; mother activists within indigenous communities; LBGT mothers and social justice issues; victims of violence in the military.
 

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Flavia Cherry, National Chairwoman of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research
and Action (CAFRA)
Gertrude Fester, Commissioner on the Commission of Gender Equality South Africa
Linda Renney Forcey, author of Mothers of Sons: Toward an Understanding of Responsibility
Sara Ruddick, author of Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace
Tiisetso Russell, Comparative, International and Development Education, University of Toronto
One must be an ARM member to present at the conference. For information on how to become a member of ARM, please see our membership form.
 

Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Phone: (416) 736-2100 x60366 FAX: (416) 736-5766
Email: arm@yorku.ca
 

9.- Training on Mainstreaming Gender in Development Programmes

Development Alternatives: devalt@responsenet.org 

Mainstreaming Gender in Development Programmes
(10th, 11th &12th December 2007)


Introduction
Convention on Eliminating Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action reflect unanimous international commitment to Gender Equality. The Platform for Action is an agenda for women's empowerment that reaffirms the human rights of women and female children, and demands a strong commitment to bring about gender equality.

Nevertheless, current indicators of development and situation prevailing in most regions clearly point towards women' low status in the society. They still constitute majority of rural poor, have low literacy rates, very limited access to resources and have experienced least improvement in their quality of life.

This makes it imperative to reduce these disparities and integrate gender in development planning. Gender disparities need to be reduced by improving women's active participation in development process and for this there is a need to design gender sensitive policies and programs to ensure that overall development efforts are directed to attain impacts that are equitably beneficial to both men and women.

To achieve this we need to address gender concerns and explore various dimensions with gender sensitivity - while designing a programme, implementing it, monitoring to see if the gender integration is being done properly and assessing its impact on the life of people. This will enable knowing if the benefits of the development process are reaching and being used by both men and women. This is to be done through evaluation, eventually. However and most importantly, gender analysis needs to be done at all the stages of programme/policy development

Objective

To generate understanding on the gender roles and relations

To learn the different ways of doing gender analysis in various stages of a development programme using project experiences

To help gain knowledge and appropriate skills for undertaking gender analysis to create space for equal participation of both women and men

To incorporate gender component and aspect in the development of programmes and project evaluation.

Pedagogy

The Pedagogy which would be adopted during the training /workshop would be participatory in nature and would include case studies, games/interactive exercises, group discussions, role plays etc.

Contents
• Gender and Development
• Different approaches to development
• Gender analysis
• Developing a framework for gender integration

Eligibility
This programme is designed for Development Professionals from NGOs, CSR Professionals, officers from Central and State governments, and international development organizations who have been managing development projects in which capacity building of staffs or community (CBOs) and are keen to upgrade their knowledge.

Duration
3 Days

The training will be for a period of 3 days which will be essentially consisting of:

a. Class room sessions
b. A guided tour to the development models within TARAgram campus
c. An evening out to visit the Orchha temples and fort.
Fee
INR 10,000 per participant for Indian Participants
INR 18,000 (450 USD) for Overseas Participants

To be sure of participation, we request you to send the nominations form (enclosed below) and the course fee (non-refundable) by 4th Dec, 2007.

The confirmation is made after the payment and the seats are reserved on First Come First Serve basis.

Indian participants please make payment through Demand Draft drawn in favour of Development Alternatives payable at Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh.

Overseas participants, you will please send the fees through wire transfer. The details of the wire transfer will be sent to each selected trainee once we get their nomination form.

Venue
The training will be held in TARAgram, Appropriate Technology Centre, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh. TARAgram is a campus set in the rural environment of Orchha. It is a centre which showcases the Livelihood models developed by DA in the field of appropriate technology, and environment.

Participants to the training will be provided a guided tour of the campus which will enrich the learnings from the class room sessions.

Tips of getting to TARAgram
Participants coming by train should take a ticket till Jhansi (UP) Railway station. From there, TARAgram is 9 kms away. There will be a pick up facility based on the information provided on the arrival time.

Other Useful Tips
1. The Training fee covers the following:

• Accommodation
• Food
• Course material
• Leisure trip to the famous Orchha Temples and Fort

2. The participants can arrive one day before the training date and leave on last day of the training by a train which leaves around 5.45 pm.

3. The participants will be expected to book and reserve their tickets. The training fee does not include the travel expenses.

Enclosed
1. Route map - how to get to TARAgram from Jhansi Railway Station
http://devalt.org/da/field/map.htm
2. TARAgram Campus - an overview
http://devalt.org/da/field/tarapic.htm
3. Orchha Temples and fort - a glimpse
www.shunya.net/Pictures/NorthIndia/Orchha/Orchha.htm

Resource Person

Dr. Reetu Sogani, Lead Trainer

Reetu has completed her PhD from R. A. Podar Institute of Management, Jaipur and also her Masters in Business Management (MBA). She has been working in the development sector for the past 10 years.

She has been awarded a fellowship by the Govt. of Netherlands under Netherlands Fellowship Programme to attend a certificate course on "Gender, Organisational change and Leadership" in Netherlands. She has also prepared a white paper on "women's status and issues in Uttaranchal" on the request of World Food Programme.

Reetu has also been extending technical support to organizations (both governmental and non governmental) and to workers at the grassroots level on various issues relating to gender such as:

• Gender and Peoples' Knowledge
• Gender and Natural Resource Management (NRM)
• Gender and Agriculture
• Gender and Health
• Gender and Livelihood

Raghwesh Ranjan

Raghwesh has done his Masters in Science and has been working in the Development Sector for the past 10 years. He has a vast experience of managing programmes funded by various agencies with different focuses. He has been personally involved in integrating gender sensitive parameters in an entire project cycle process right from the design, planning, monitoring to its evaluation. He will be sharing live case studies of such experiences across different projects.

Enquiries and Suggestions
If you have any queries or suggestions for the training or nominations, please contact the following:

Telephone:

Juhi Nigam - 0510 2911 368, 0983 9820 689
E-mail: trainings@devalt.org
Development Alternatives
111/9-Z, Kishangarh, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi -1100 70, India
Training date Monday, December 10, 2007
Intended Audience Development professionals in NGOs, CSR, Govt Intl.
Cost 10000

Contact Information / Other Details

Contact Juhi
Telephone 0510 2911 368
Email trainings@devalt.org
Website http://www.devalt.org

 

10.- Call for Papers: Women in Latin America

Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme

Call for Papers
Women in Latin America

Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme's (CWS/cf) Winter/Spring2008 issue, is committed to examining the various ways women in Latin America were affected in the 1970s and 1980s by terrorism, militarization, and democracy; in the 1990s, by sterilization and population policies, and Maquiladora production; and in the 2000s, by globalization and free trade agreements. In the past, Latin American women's knowledge was ignored and vilified. In recent years, these experiences have resulted in the articulation a new theoretical framework by Latin American women. A pedagogy of resistance and new concepts of social justice/human rights/national dignity are emerging.

In this issue, the focus will be on Latin American women's responses to the local and global powers. We particularly encourage contributions from women that narrate their own experiences of living in Latin America and in the Diaspora. Alternate, performative forms of narration such as theatre, storytelling, and poetry are also welcome.

Possible topics include:

* Latin American women's rebellion/resistance during dictatorship regimes;
* Sterilization and population policies;
* Displacement, prostitution, trafficking, torced migration;
* Maquiladora production;
* Breakdown of life (children's homelessness, assassinations, unemployment, healthcare);
* Sexual diversity;
* Issue for Indigenous peoples;
* Impact of Free Trade Agreements and structural adjustment policies;
* Pedagogies of resistance;
* New concepts of social justice, human rights, national dignity;
* Latin American feminist movements;
* Responses to the environmental crisis (mining and minerals, water, bio-piracy/forestry);
* New areas of colonization and resistance;
* Mothers' and grandmothers' struggles for the disappeared and murdered;
* Pedagogies of resistance;
* State terrorism, political violence, militarization/democracy.

Your ideas for additional topics are welcome.

Invited are essays, research reports, true stories, poetry, drawings, and other art works that illuminate these issues.

Deadline: January 30, 2008

Articles should be typed, double-spaced, and a maximum of 12 pages long(3000 words). A short (50-word) abstract of the article and a brief biographical note must accompany each submission.

Please send a hard copy of your manuscript as well as emailing a copy. We give preference to previously unpublished material. If possible, please submit graphics or photographs to accompany your article.

Please note CWS/cf reserves the right to edit manuscripts with respect to length and clarity, and in conformity with our house-style. To encourage use of the material published, CWS/cf has granted electronic rights to Gale Group, Micromedia Proquest and the H. W. Wilson. Any royalties received will be used by CWS/cf to assist the publication indisseminating its message.

Write or call as soon as possible indicating your intention to submit your work.

Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme
210 Founders, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Telephone: (416) 736-5356 Fax: (416) 736-5765
E-mail: cwscf@yorku.ca 
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Office Administrator
Inanna Publications and Education Inc., operating as Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme
210 Founders Collage York University
4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Tel: 416.736.5356
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Email: cwscf@yorku.ca