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Subject: The Soul Beat - 51 - MDG 3: Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women
The Soul Beat - Issue 51 - MDG 3: Gender Equality & Empowerment of Women
November 9 2005
From the SOUL BEAT AFRICA partnership - Soul City and The Communication Initiative
...African choices...critical voices...crossing borders...African stories...
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This issue of The Soul Beat focuses on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) #3 which seeks to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women. The main aim of this millennium goal is to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005 and in all levels of education no later than 2015. The United Nations has specified a number of key indicators against which the success in attaining this goal can be measured: the ratio of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education, the ratio of literate women to men aged 15 -24 years, the share of women in wage employment in the non agricultural sector and the proportion of seats held by women in national parliament. In this issue of The Soul Beat we have included a range of communication initiatives, materials and opportunities from the Soul Beat Africa network which are directly and indirectly working towards achieving the MDG #3 in Africa.
For more information on the Millennium Development Goal #3 and all of the MDGs, please see http://www.comminit.com/mdgs/mdgs/mdgs-1.html Please also visit The Communication Initiative's MDG Impact section for more examples of the impact of communication on eliminating gender disparity in education - see http://www.comminit.com/mdgs.html
To learn more about the Millennium Development Goals, you can also visit http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?r=http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
Subscribe to The Soul Beat - http://www.comminit.com/africa/soul-beat-subscribe.html or e-mail Bonolo [log in to unmask]
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EDUCATION & LITERACY
1. 25 by 2005 campaign (Girls Education Initiative) - Ethiopia
The 25 by 2005 campaign is a global initiative working towards meeting the Millennium Development Goal of gender equality in primary and secondary education by 2005. The main aim of the campaign is to raise awareness, generate public support and mobilise resources for girl's education. Ethiopia is one of 24 countries worldwide that is participating in the campaign. The challenge for the Ethiopia project lies in addressing a number of complex and interrelated factors which contribute to the low enrolment and high drop out rates of girls.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds22005/experiences-2974.html
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2. Tuseme Project - Tanzania
The Tuseme project aims to empower girls to understand and overcome problems that can hinder their academic and social development. Organisers found that research conducted to explore the reasons behind the poor academic performance of girls as compared to boys, did not consider and or contain girl's voices. Girls were therefore never given the opportunity to contribute ideas that could bring understanding to the problems hindering their academic excellence. The Tuseme project was developed to give girls a voice to speak out through the use of girls support clubs, theatre for development and peer education.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds82005/experiences-3329.html
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3. Gender, Literacy, and Empowerment in Morocco
This is a study of female literacy centred on how non-literate women need and acquire literacy in Morocco. The author suggests ways of designing emancipatory and empowering gender based literacy programmes, contributing to gender research efforts for better integration of non-literate women in sustainable development.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/materials/ma2005/materials-2030.html
4. Gender in Popular Education: Methods for Empowerment
This book aims to demonstrate how feminist popular education has developed in recent decades and explores the education methodologies and learning strategies that lead to women's empowerment. It offers a collection of critical reflections on feminist adult education work in grassroots organisations, development projects, formal institutions and community education programmes in a wide variety of countries including South Africa, India, the United States, Canada, Malaysia, the Philippines and Australia.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/materials/ma2005/materials-2309.html
ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT & THE ROLE OF ICT
5. Nakaseke Women Development Association (NAWODA) - Uganda
Established in 2001, NAWODA seeks to empower Ugandan women by training them in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and integrating these skills into their daily income-generating activities. The ultimate goal is to reverse the current trend of unequal gender access to new technologies, providing higher-income employment and entrepreneurial opportunities to rural African women. The programme currently operates in two sub-counties in Luwero District: Nakaseke and Kasangombe.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds32003/experiences-2377.html
Contact Henry Serunkuma [log in to unmask]
6. Linking African Women Entrepreneurs - Africa
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has launched an initiative to link African ICT entrepreneurs living in Africa with those living in the Diaspora. The partnership aims to make financial resources and IT and business expertise from the Diaspora available to women in Africa.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds32003/experiences-2359.html
Contact Micol Zarb [log in to unmask]
7. ASAFE (Association pour le Soutien et L'Appui a La Femme Entrepreneur) - Cameroon
The Association for Support to Women Entrepreneurs (ASAFE) is a non-profit NGO whose primary aim is the promotion and development of entrepreneurship among Cameroon women. It focuses on enterprises and small-scale production initiatives owned or managed by women. ASAFE supports the use of the internet in promoting women entrepreneurs as the internet reduces the cost of transactions, facilitates access to information, and increases the visibility of the enterprises owned and controlled by women. Moreover, ASAFE uses the Internet to train women to grow their businesses more effectively.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds32003/experiences-2260.html
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16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM
The 25th of November marks the start of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, which is an international campaign aimed at placing the issue of gender violence on the local, provincial and national agendas of both government and civil society.
For more information on the campaign, see:
http://www.comminit.com/africa/events_calendar/2005-events/events-4140.html
Other materials:
16 Days of Activism Campaign Toolkit 2005: Act Against Abuse
http://www.comminit.com/africa/materials/ma2005/materials-2557.html
Gender-based Violence (GBV) Prevention Network
http://www.comminit.com/redirect.cgi?r=http://www.preventgbvafrica.org/days_16_activism.htm
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POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT & THE ROLE OF MEDIA & ICTs
8. Women, Media and Change (WOMEC) - Ghana
Women, Media and Change (WOMEC) is a non-governmental organisation in Ghana that promotes the use of the media for the advancement of women. By providing media skills to women, it aims to give women a public voice, increasing visibility in the mass media and expanding their participation in the public arena. WOMEC provides gender training for journalists to promote gender sensitive reporting.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds52005/experiences-3110.html
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9. Feminia - Cameroon
Feminia is a Cameroon-based network for African Women Media Professionals. The organisation produces and disseminates information that brings to focus the African woman's perspective with regard to the 'gender and development approach. The network uses a website to discuss women's problems, suggest possible solutions and strategies and to exchange articles, programmes and knowledge on women's issues.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/Pds102005/experiences-3392.html
Contact Madeleine Memb [log in to unmask] AND [log in to unmask] OR Léontine Babeni [log in to unmask] OR Sanne Stroosnijder [log in to unmask]
10. APC-Africa-Women - Africa
The Association for Progressive Communications' (APC) African Women's Programme Africa-Women (AAW) is a network of organisations and individuals that work to empower African women's organisations to access and use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote equality and development. ICT is used as a tool for empowerment as it provides access to information, skills and builds women's networks across Africa.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds112004/experiences-2721.html
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11. The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Development of African Women
This paper sets out to look at the question of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in relation to women's development in Africa. The paper provides examples of good practice and includes recommendations to civil society organisations on how to create an enabling environment for women to access and use ICTs for development. Access and use of ICTs is viewed as particularly important for boosting the economic, political and social empowerment of women, and the promotion of gender equality.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/strategicthinking/st2005/thinking-1421.html
12. Advancing Rural Women's Empowerment: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the service of Good Governance, Democratic Practice and Development for Rural Women in Africa
The purpose of this paper is to explore how ICTs have been incorporated into the pursuit of rural women's empowerment in Africa, specifically in terms of their access to human rights and good governance.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/strategicthinking/st2004/thinking-727.html
RESOURCE MOBILISATION
13. Global Fund for Women Grants
The Global Fund for Women (GFW) aims to support women's groups that advance the human rights of women and girls. GFW works to strengthen women's groups based outside the United States by providing small, flexible, and timely grants ranging from USD $500 to USD $20,000 for operating and project expenses. GFW values local expertise and believe that women themselves know best how to determine their needs and propose solutions for lasting change.
http://www.comminit.com/africa/resourcemobilisation2005/resmob2005/resourcemob-42.html
14. African Women's Development Fund - Main Grants Program
The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) funds local, national, sub-regional and regional organisations in Africa working towards women's empowerment. The AWDF is an institutional capacity-building and programme development fund, which aims to help build a culture of learning and partnerships within the African women's movement. In addition to awarding grants, the AWDF attempts to strengthen the organisational capacities of its grantees
http://www.comminit.com/africa/resourcemobilisation2005/resmob2005/resourcemob-39.html
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Soul Beat Africa will be covering the MDG #4 – reduction of child mortality – in the beginning of 2006. If you are using communication within this field, please forward us your programme experiences, strategic thinking documents, materials or evaluations for possible inclusion in that edition. Please send to: Anja Venth [log in to unmask]
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The Soul Beat is a partnership between:
Soul City and its partners - The Royal Netherlands Embassy, Development Cooperation Ireland, European Union, DFID, and BP
and The Communication Initiative Partnership - ANDI, BBC World Service Trust, Bernard van Leer Foundation, Calandria, CFSC Consortium, The CHANGE Project, CIDA, DFID, Exchange, FAO, Ford Foundation, Fundacion Nuevo Periodismo, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs, MISA, OneWorld, The Panos Institute, PCI, The Rockefeller Foundation, SAfAIDS, Soul City, UNAIDS, UNICEF, USAID, WHO.
The Soul Beat seeks to cover the full range of communication for development activities. Inclusion of an item does not imply endorsement or support by The Partners.
Please send material for The Soul Beat to the Editor - Anja Venth [log in to unmask]
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