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Organizations and Sites That Emphasize Economics, Work, and Women & Development

• Are Women Overrepresented Among the Poor: An Analysis of Poverty in Ten Developing Countries," by Agnes Quisumbing, et al. (June 2001), Discussion Paper, no. 115., and Are Wealth Transfers Biased Against Girls? Gender Differences in Land Inheritance and Schooling Investment in Ghana's Western Region, by Agnes R. Quisumbing, Ellen M. Payongayong, and Keijiro Otsuka (August 2004), Discussion Paper, no. 186, are examples of papers from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Food Consumption and Nutrition Division . List of papers from the IFPRI FCND.
• Canadian International Development Agency's page on gender equality includes an online course "Promoting Gender Equality – An Online Learning Course."
• Development-Gender Discussion List site includes a searchable archive of past messages.
• The Dimitra Project of the Food and Agriculture Organization has at its main goal "to empower rural women and to improve their living conditions and status by highlighting the extent and value of their contributions. It provides a tool for grassroots organisations to make their voices heard at the international level." The site has a database of organizatoins and projects on rural women and development.
• Enda Third World, based in Dakar, Senegal, works on environmental development action. One of its programs is Enda Synfev, Synergy, Gender and Development, which promotes development that benefits women, particularly in Africa.
• European Charter for Women in the City promotes active participation of women in urban planning.
• "Feminism and Globalization: The Impact of the Global Economy on Women and Feminist Theory", thematic issue of Indiana Jrl. of Global Legal Sts., volume 4, issue 1 (Fall 1996), is no longer freely available online. It is still available within Lexis-Nexis on campuses with a subscription to this database.
• Gender and Development section of the Development Gateway website, "an interactive portal for information and knowledge sharing onsustainable development and poverty reduction," from the Development Gateway Foundation.
• Gender and Water information from conferences on water management and elsewhere is assembled by the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement, Amsterdam, as part of the Gender and Water Alliance organization.
• The Gender Equality Page of the Employment and Social Affairs Directorate of the European Community presents information on gender mainstreaming and other policies in the EC.
• The Institute for Development Studies, Univ. of Sussex, U.K., publishes a series of Bridge Reports covering gender and economics, gender/conflicts/emergencies, gender and poverty, gender concepts and methodologies and more, as well as Bridge Bulletin: Development and Gender in Brief, designed to keep development practitioners current on gender-based research and best practices. The IDS site hosts ELDIS, a gateway to development and environment information, including a Gender section, which links to organizations and full-text documents, country profiles, research guides on Gender and Health, Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Trade, and other topics, and much more.
• The International Labour Organization has many useful documents and databases primarily linked from ILO's GenderWeb, including description of the ILO's International Programme for More and Better Jobs for Women and e.quality@work, an "information base on equal employment opportunities for men and women. The ILO maintains LABORDOC, a massive multi-lingual database with citations (and links to those available in fulltext) both to all 40,000+ documents published by the ILO from 1965 to the present (and a selection of several thousand from earlier dates) and to over 300,000 articles and other publications from other sources. To find information on women workers, use the subject heading "woman worker." To restrict search to publications of the ILO, use guided search and the phrase "ILO pub" in one of the search boxes. Women workers, employment, labor relations, labor law, working conditions, vocational training, social security, occupational safety and health, child labour, migrant workers, economic and social rights, and labor-related aspects of economic and social development are all covered in LABORDOC. Another ILO product is NATLEX, a worldwide database of national laws on labor, social security, and human rights issues. NOTE: LABORDOC and NATLEX format subject headings without apostrophes. Use "womens empowerment," "womens organization," and womens rights" without apostrophes. Other women-related subject headings: "woman manager," "woman worker," "women," "women in development," "gender planning," "girl," "female headed household," "female occupation,"and "rural women." It is also possible to search the databases using French, Spanish, and German equivalents for search terms.
• The International Women's Tribune Centre is a women's information organization, which includes a book distribution arm called Women, Ink. The IWTC website focuses on women and development and follows actions taking place pursuant to the Beijing Platform for Action (PFA) and Beijing Plus Five follow-up plans and policies. The website also includes issues of Women's GlobalNet newsletter. (To receive the bi-weekly newsletter by email, send a blank message to iwtc-womensglobalnet-subscribe@igc.topica.com .)
• Lutheran World Relief website includes descriptions of their projects, publications, and videos. Use the search mechanism and search for "gender."
• The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) website includes material on women and the economy. Access to several of the papers is restricted, however.
• Social Watch in Uruguay gathers data on progress within countries on social development, particularly eradicating poverty and achieving gender equity. It has a searchable database.
• United Nations Sites With Women and Gender Information
• USAID Women in Development describes the agency work and links to numerous fulltext publications (in pdf), including Women, Men and Development, profiles of recent USAID efforts in gender and development (March 2004). USAID is pursuing gender integration (designing programs that take both women's and men's participation into account).
• WIDNET: Women in Development NETwork contains statistics from 1995.
• Womankind Worldwide is a development organization based in London that supports the fight against poverty and sexual or political oppression.
• "Women and Gender Inequality," is a chapter in State of the World Population 2002, from the UN Population Fund. The 2005 report is entirely on gender: "The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals." The 2006 report was "A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration". Previous reports are available as well.
• Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing is a worldwide coalition of institutions and individuals in support of women in the informal sector.
• Women Working Worldwide is a U.K.-based organization offering tools and support to women workers in the global economy.
• Women's EDGE is a coalition for women's economic development and global equality. Site includes policy resources divided into categories: Global Trade, U.S. Trade Policy, U.A. International Assistance, Violence Against Women, Women and Agriculture, Women and Natural Disasters, Women in Conflict, Women's Education, and Women's Health.
• Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)
• WID Program at Michigan State University site includes an extensive Internet Resource Guide to international websites on women in development as well as those from different developing regions and a Media Guide.
• WIDE: Network Women in Development Europe is a "European network of gender specialists, women active in Non-Governmental Development Organisations (NGDOs), and human rights activists." WIDE opposes expansion of the WTO into new areas. Site includes a newsletter.
• The WORLD BANK Gender & Development Page has sections offering practical ideas for achieving gender equality, statistics on gender and development, summaries of World Bank research on gender topics, policy documents, country gender profiles, and more. Recent work includes a report: Engendering Development through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources, and Voice, a Seminar Series on Information and Communication Technologies and Gender, regional gender web sites, strategy papers, and much more. The Bank is also a principal sponsor of The Development Gateway, a web portal with several areas devoted to gender.

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