GERA Website Links

African Gender Institute (AGI)
http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi

African Gender Institute (AGI), University of Cape Town, acts as a resource center for networking and advancing the work of intellectuals, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners committed to gender equality in Africa. AGI's mission for gender justice targets the three arenas of formal education, policy and civil society, and networking/ resource sharing. On their website is available the latest projects, news, and research findings about their programmes. Interesting electronic gender and development links.

Akina Mama wa Afrika (AmwA)
http://www.akinamama.com

Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) is a non-governmental development organisation for African women. It is based in the UK with a regional office in Kampala, Uganda. This website is an invaluable resource for linking the African Women's Leadership Institute, training programs, small grants for women in leadership, and UK based programs for women as leaders.

AVIVA
http://www.aviva.org/africa.htm

AVIVA is a FREE 'Webzine', being run by an International group of Feminists based in London. We are providing a free listings service for women everywhere, funded by advertising, and sponsorship.
AVIVA is an International Women's Listing Magazine which enables women all over the world to make contact with each other.
AVIVA needs the input of groups and individuals around the world to provide information for free listings.
AVIVA offers to act as Website 'host' to Women's Groups and Services globally.

This site contains information on gender in Africa including news, events, resources, groups, and more.

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) was established as a functional commission of the Economic and Social Council by Council resolution 11(II) of 21 June 1946 to prepare recommendations and reports to the Council on promoting women's rights in political, economic, civil, social and educational fields. The Commission also makes recommendations to the Council on urgent problems requiring immediate attention in the field of women's rights. The object of the Commission is to promote implementation of the principle that men and women shall have equal rights. The Commission's mandate was expanded in 1987 by the Council in its resolution 1987/22. Following the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, the general Assembly mandated the Commission to integrate into its work programme a follow-up process to the Conference, in which the Commission should play a catalytic role, regularly reviewing the critical araes of concern in the Platform for Action.

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
www.dawn.org

Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era 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. DAWN's research themes include Political Economy of Globalisation, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Political Restructuring and Social Transformation.

The Integrated Social Development Centre - ISODEC
http://www.isodec.org.gh/intro.htm

The Integrated Social Development Centre - ISODEC'S mission is to work for sustainable human development through the empowerment of the poor, and other marginalised groups, especially women. Our strategy focuses on building capacity of intermediary development organisations and conducting research for development and advocacy purposes. ISODECs work covers most of Ghana. We have worked in areas of capacity building with a number of groups in Ghana. ISODEC has actively participated in international groups and was a member of the NGO working group on the World Bank from 1995 to 1998. ISODEC, as part of its mandate on this committee, also serving on the sub-group that monitors and promotes participation in World Bank and other multilateral/bilateral lending institutions.

Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
http://www.citizen.org/pctrade/gattwto/gatthome.html

Global Trade Watch (GTW) was created in 1993 to promote government and corporate accountability in an area on which few public interest groups were focused: the international commercial agreements shaping the current version of globalization. GTW is a division of Public Citizen, the national consumer group founded in 1972 by Ralph Nader. Having built unique substantive capacity and diverse contacts with other NGOs, the press and policy-makers, GTW is still the only U.S. organization focused full-time on globalization issues. We have become a leader in promoting a citizen's perspective on an array of globalization issues, including implications for health and safety, environmental protection, economic justice, and democratic, accountable governance.

SYNFEV - Synergy Gender and Development
http://www.enda.sn/synfev/synfev.htm

SYNFEV-Synergy Gender and Development is an entity of ENDA Third World, an environment and development, non-profit organisation, based out of Dakar, Senegal. This website provides electronic solidarity for women in Africa working closely with the Association for Progressive Communication's Women's Networks Support Programme (APC), and includes annual reports communication for women's programmes, studies, and publications. Available in English and French.

UNIFEM: United Nations Development Fund for Women
http://www.unifem.undp.org/economic.htm

UNIFEM's focus on Strengthening Women's Economic Capacity is an integral part of the Fund's ongoing global strategy to increase women's access to and control over income and resources. To strengthen women's economic capacity is to encourage women to become key economic players and shape the direction of the market forces that often ignore gender considerations altogether. This site contains useful links for "Tools for Action" including resources, conferences and networking.

WILDAF: Women in Law and Development in Africa
http://www.wildaf.org.zw

A pan African women's rights network dedicated to promoting and strengthening strategies which link law and development to increase women's participation and influence at the community, national and international levels.

WiLDAF brings together organizations and individuals who share this objective and who are operating at local, national and regional levels to make it a reality.

Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ)
www.wicej.org

The Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice (WICEJ) is an international coalition representing organisations in all regions of the globe. WICEJ works to link gender and macro-economic policy in international inter-governmental policy-making arenas, including the United Nations, the World Bank/IMF, and the World Trade Organisation.

Women Watch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch

WomenWatch is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. It was created to monitor the results of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. It was founded in March 1997 by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)