Library

Community Development Leadership by Women

Approaches and Skills

Advocacy and Networking

• The Communication Initiative
• ISIS International Manila is a feminist NGO working through media and ICTs towards achieving women's human rights and facilitating networking and information sharing of women's movements in the global South.
• Network of East-West Women (NEWW)
• Peace Women - links page for women's networking initiatives.
• UNESCO - Gender Equality
• Wheatley, M. & Frieze, D. (2006). Using emergence to take social innovations to scale.

Community Driven Development

• Capacity Building for Community-Driven Planning
• Mobilizing Assets for Community-Driven Development

Empowerment

• Community Classroom: Women's Empowerment contains lesson plans and video modules that encourage students to learn about international struggles.  Four documentaries explore women's empowerment and leadership around the world.
• Empowerment, publications and resources from Eldis.
• Hill, C. (2011). Enabling rural women's economic empowerment: Institutions, opportunities, and participation. Paper prepared for an Expert Group Meeting on Enabling rural women's economic empowerment institutions, opportunities and participation, Accra, Ghana, September 20-23. (186K pdf)
• Pathways of Women's Empowerment is a research and communications programme that aims to understand and influence efforts to bring about positive change in women's lives.
• Women's Empowerment, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Fundraising

• African Women's Development Fund
• Fundraising resources to assist organizations seeking project funding.
• Mama Cash - Provides grants to projects by women's groups who want to change the socio-political and cultural position of women in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe.
• Murray, A. F. (1995). Global Fund For Women: Women's Fundraising Handbook. (n.p.): Global Fund. (80K pdf)
• UNIFEM Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence Against Women

Gender Mainstreaming

• BRIDGE supports gender mainstreaming efforts by bridging the gaps between theory, policy and practice with accessible gender information.
• Derbyshire, H. (2002). Gender Manual: A Practical Guide for Development Policy Makers and Practitioners. London: DFID. (340K pdf)
• Gender at Work
• Gender Mainstreaming Learning & Information Packs, developed by the UNDP Learning Resources Centre.
• OECD. (1998). DAC source book on concepts and approaches linked to gender equality. Paris: OECD. (250K pdf)
• OECD. (1999). DAC Guidelines on gender equality and women's empowerment in development co-operation. (Development co-operation guidelines series). Paris: OECD. (4.88 Mb pdf).
• SEAGA, Socioeconomic and Gender Analysis Programme.
• UNDP. (2007). Gender mainstreaming in practice: A toolkit. (3rd ed.). Bratislava, Slovak Republic: UNDP. (685K pdf)
• Xiaoqiao, Z. (2011). Trends in the implementation of Article 14 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. Paper presented to an Expert Group Meeting on Enabling rural women's economic empowerment institutions, opportunities and participation, Accra, Ghana, September 20-23. (95K pdf)

Information Communication Technologies (ICT)

• Bellanet - has online training modules at ITrain.
• Making the internet connection count: effective use of the internet in seven steps. Washington, DC: Leland Initiative. The manual is intended for decision makers and staff of NGOs, educational institutions, and government agencies that currently do not have, or have very limited, access to the Internet. (641K pdf)

Listservs / Online Newsletters

• Gender Related Electronic Forums - "listing of publicly-accessible e-mail discussion forums related to women or to women-focused gender issues."

Organizational Management and Women's Leadership

• Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
• Center for Gender in Organizations - "linking gender and organizational effectiveness.
• Free Management Library - a collection of articles on a wide range of management topics.
• Gender At Work analyzes an organization's culture, policies and leadership, encourages changes that have an impact both on the organization and the communities it serves.
• Getting to the Gate, online tool for women who wish to enter politics.
• Leadership for a Changing World
• Profiles of Women, Section15 features profiles of women.
• Wirth, L. (2004). Breaking through the glass ceiling: Women in management 2004. (Updated ed.). Geneva: ILO report. (340K pdf)

Sectors

Development

• AWID: Association for Women's Rights in Development
• Bejing +10, World Bank action since Beijing.
• Civicus Network
• ELDIS gender resources
• New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD)
• Oneworld Network promotes human rights awareness and fighting poverty worldwide.
• Wageningen UR, development research and resources.

Good Governance / Women in Politics

• Engendering leadership: Nine profiles commissioned by Heinrich Boell Stiftung, documenting women in politics in Africa.
• IDEA: Democracy and Gender
• Palmieri, S. (2011). Gender-sensitive parliaments: A global review of good practice. (Reports and document no. 65). Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union. (3.43 Mb pdf)
• Thomson Reuters Foundation, a global hub for free legal assistance, news and information on good governance and women's rights.
• Whitman, T. & Gomez, J. (2009). Bringing women into government. Strategies for Policymakers, 1. (485K pdf)
• Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership

Health

• Baume, E., Juarez, M., & Standing, H. (2001). Gender and health equity resource guide. Brighton: IDS. A comprehensive listing of resources and tools to promote gender equity in health. (437K pdf)
• Gender, women and health, World Health Organization resources.

HIV/AIDS

• Nath, M. B. (2000). Gender, HIV and human rights: A training manual. New York: UNIFEM.

Human Rights

• AWID: Association for Women's Rights in Development
• Equitas: International Centre for Human Rights Education
• Women's Human Rights Resources Programme, Bora Laskin Law Library.

Peacebuilding

• Eldis Conflict and Security Guide
• Peace Women
• Women Building Peace: From the Village Council to the Negotiating Table is an international campaign promoting women's role in peacebuilding.
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Statistics and Comparative Data

• ELDIS Country Profiles
• Genderstats, World Bank.
• UNICEF
• WomenWatch, UN Statistics and Indicators.

Violence and Conflict

• Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women and Children
• A life free of violence is our right, video available for download from UNIFEM. The video introduces the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women.
• McKay, S. (1998). The effects of armed conflict on girls and women. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 4/4, 381-392.
• Rehn, E. & Sirleaf, E. J. (Eds.). (2002). Violence Against Women. In Women, war, peace: The independent experts' assessment on the impact of armed conflict on women and women's role in peace-building (pp. 9-18). New York: UN Women. (35K pdf)
• Violence Against Women, Amnesty International USA.
• Violence against women, resources from UNIFEM.
• Ward, J. & Marsh, M. (2006). Sexual violence against women and girls in war and its aftermath: Realities, responses, and required resources. Briefing paper prepared for Symposium on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond, Brussels, Belgium, June 21-23. (240K pdf)
• Whittington, S., et al. (2005). The impact of conflict on women and girls in West and Central Africa and the UNICEF response. New York: UNICEF. (306K pdf)

Regions

• Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)
• IWTC Regional Links - listing of women's organisations and resources in Africa, Asia & Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and North America.

Africa

• Agenda Magazine
• Kabissa is a network connecting people and organizations working in Africa for peer learning and information sharing.

Asia

• ARROW - Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women promotes and defends women's health and rights.
• Isis International Manila
• ProPoor is a portal providing information, resources and news about development work in South Asia.
• SAWNET - a forum for women interested in gender issues in South Asia. Includes a listserv.

Middle East

• Arab Women Connect - developed by UNIFEM.

Resources

• Changemakers Library - Tools for Social Change
• WomenWatch, the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE).
• World Bank. (2012). World development report 2012: Gender equality and development.