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Education

OVERVIEW | INSTITUTIONS | PUBLICATIONS | INTERNET SITES | EXPERTS

OVERVIEW

Assessing Women and Education, Evaluation report, Sixth African Regional Conference on Women Mid-decade Review of the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Programmes of Action, 22-26 november 1999, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, Mrs. Daraba Saran Kaba, African Centre for Women (ACW), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), September 2001 [ other version : ]

INSTITUTIONS

1. African Gender Institute
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch
7701
South Africa
Contact: Prof. Amina Mama
Phone: 27 21 650 4201
Fax: 27 21 685 2142
E-mail: amama@humanities.uct.ac.za

2. Ahfad University of Women
P.O. Box 167
Omdurman
Sudan
Contact: Amna Derar

3. CERTWID
P.O. Box 150170
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Contact: Emebet Mulugetta
Phone: 251-123338
Fax: 251-551333
E-mail: certwid@telecom.net.et

4. Gender Education Training Network (GETNET)
17 Garlandale Crescent
Athlone
7764
South Africa
Contact: Celeste Fortuin (Gender Trainer)
Phone: 27 21 697 5355
E-mail: trainer@getnet.org.za

5. International Council for Adult Education
720 Bathurst Street, Suite 500
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2R4
Canada
Contact: Ellen Permato
Fax: 416 588 5725
E-mail: ellen@icae.ca

6. International Federation of University Women Headquarters
8 rue de l’Ancien-Port
CH-1201 Geneva
Switzerland
Contact: Tel: 41 22 7312380
Fax: 4122 7380440
E-mail: info@ifuw.org

7. Isis-Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange
P.O. Box 4934
Kampala
Uganda
Contact: Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng (Director)
Phone: 256 41 543953
Mobile: 256 77508667
Fax: 256 41 543954

8. Kenyatta University
Gender & Development
P.O.Box 50027
Nairobi
Kenya
Contact: Leah Wanjama
Phone: 09 254 2543778
Email: lwanjama@policy.or.ke

9. Makerere University
Department of Women and Gender Studies
P.O Box 7062
Kampala
Uganda
Contact: Grace Banjebya Kyomuhendo (Head)
Phone: 256 41 531 484
Fax: 256 41 543 539

10. University of Botswana
P/Bag UB 00703
Gaborone, Botswana
Contact: Nobantu Rasebotsa
Phone: 267 3552196
Mobile: 267 71778142

11. University of Buea
Women and Gender Studies
P.O. Box 63
Buea
Cameroon
Contact: Joyce Endeley (Head of Dept)
Phone: 237 3322134 (ext 253)
Mobile: 237 7756100
Fax: 237 3322350
E-mail: joyceendeley@yahoo.com

12. University of the Western Cape
Women's & Gender Studies Unit
Private Bag X17
Bellville, 7535
South Africa
Contact: Lindsay Clowes (Acting Director)
Phone: 27 21 595 2403
E-mail: lclowes@uwc.ac.za
Contact: Tammy Shefer (Director/ Associate Professor)
Phone: 27 21 959 3360
E-mail: tshefer@uwc.ac.za

13. University of the Western Cape
Gender Equity Unit
Private Bag X17
Bellville
7535
South Africa
Contact: Mary Hames
Phone: 27-21-9592813
E-mail: mhames@uwc.ac.za

14. Usmanu Dandodiyo University
Dept of Geography/Gender Programme
PMB 2346
Sokoto
Nigeria
Contact: Dora Shehu
Email contact: dorashehu@yahoo.com

15. Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre & Network
PO Box 2192
Harare
Zimbabwe
Contact: Isabella Matambanadzo
Tel: 263-4-737435
Fax: 263-4-720331
zwrcn@zwrcn.org.zw

PUBLICATIONS

Exploration of a "Gap": Strategising Gender Equity in African Universities. This paper explores some current thinking on the way in which dominant forces in African universities have opened up possibilities for strategising gender equity within institutional contexts, and considers the potential of policies on gender equity for actual transformational shifts within the consciousness and core business of different African-based universities.
http://www.feministafrica.org/01-2002/jane.html

Accessing higher education in apartheid South Africa: a gender perspective. This paper explores the experiences of twenty-two Black women in four South African universities located in the Eastern and Western Provinces of Apartheid South Africa. The study explores how a select group of women have managed to acquire an education and the sources of funding which made it possible to extend their education beyond the limits that apply to most Black females in pre-democratic South Africa.
http://www.jendajournal.com/jenda/vol1.1/makosana.html
http://www.jendajournal.com/jenda/vol1.1/makosana.pdf [pdf format]

Intombi Seminar: an address by the South African deputy minister of education at the launch of the Intombi seminar. The Intombi Project is dedicated towards increasing the participation and success of girl learners in mathematics, science and technology education.

INTERNET SITES

Strengthening Gender Studies for Social Transformation: An intellectual capacity-building and information technology development project.
This project aims to strengthen African teaching and research in gender studies by bringing teachers and researchers based in African universities together in a series of carefully-designed training, research and publishing activities, involving a combination of online communications and workshops. The resulting network of gender-competent scholars will contribute significantly to the emergence and development of sustained intellectual and policy dialogue, so bringing strategic coherence to a hitherto fragmented community of scholars located all over the continent. The ensuing engagements will enhance both the intellectual quality and the strategic relevance of African teaching and research in the field of gender studies. This enhanced capacity will result in a pool of locally-grounded gender competent personnel equipped with the analytical and policy advocacy skills required to ensure the delivery of gender justice in African contexts.
http://www.gwsafrica.org

Imfundo is the team within DFID which creates partnerships to deliver ICT-based activities supporting gender equality and universal primary education in sub-Saharan Africa.
http://imfundo.digitalbrain.com

The African Gender Institute is a gender institute of its kind in the continent aiming to develop theoretical and practical understandings of gender and its importance in the process of social transformation in Africa, develop teaching and research in gender studies. Its aim is to advance the pursuit of intellectual excellence at the University of Cape Town and other African educational institutions, facilitate linkages between intellectuals, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners working towards the attainment of gender equity in Africa, strengthen the intellectual and leadership capacity of those working towards the attainment of gender equity in Africa, and build a proactive and responsive knowledge and information.
http://www.uct.ac.za/org/agi

The GCE believes that free, quality basic education for every girl, boy, man and woman is not only an essential right, but an achievable goal.
http://www.campaignforeducation.org

The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) was created in 1992 as a response to the slow pace of implementation of Education for All goals in sub-Saharan Africa. The Forum’s membership includes women policy makers and male ministers of education. FAWE seeks to ensure that girls have access to school, complete their studies and perform well at all levels.
http://www.fawe.org

EXPERTS

Josephine Ahikire
Lecturer
Women and Gender Studies
Makerere University
P.O Box 7062
Kampala
Uganda
Tel: 256 41 531 484

Eugenia Akpa
Dept of Sociology
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria
Nigeria
Tel: 234 069 550722

Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Senior Research Fellow
Institute of African Studies
University of Ghana
PO Box 73
Legon, Accra
Ghana

Jane Bennett
Director
African Gender Institute
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 650 4203
Fax: 27 21 685 2142

Barbara Boswell
Researcher
African Gender Institute
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 650 4204

Lindsay Clowes
Acting Director
Women's & Gender Studies Unit
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Bellville, 7535
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 595 2403

Maretha de Waal
Centre for Gender Studies
University of Pretoria
27 Lunnon Road
Eastern Campus
Pretoria, 0002
South Africa
Tel: 27 12 664 3658

Joyce Endeley
Head of Dept
Women and Gender Studies
University of Buea
PO Box 63
Buea
Cameroon
Tel: 237 3322134 (ext 253)
Mobile: 237 7756100
Fax: 237 3322350

Shereen Essof
Project & Research Assistant
African Gender Institute
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 650 4202
Fax: 27 21 685 2142

Celeste Fortuin
Gender Trainer
Gender Education Training Network GETNET)
17 Garlandale Crescent
Athlone, 7764
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 697 5355

Pregs Govender
c/o African Gender Institute
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa

Mary Hames
Gender Equity Unit
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Bellville, 7535
South Africa
Tel: 27-21-9592813

Shireen Hassim
Lecturer
Political Studies
University of the Witwatersrand
PO Wits
2050
South Africa
Tel: 27 11 717 4364

Joanne Henry
Senior Programme Officer
African Gender Institute
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 650 2971
Fax: 27 21 685 2142

Alison Lazarus
Senior Trainer
Centre for Conflict Resolution
c/o University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 422 2512

Desiree Lewis
Researcher
African Gender Institute
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 650 3350
Fax: 27 21 685 2142

Amina Mama (Prof)
Chair
African Gender Institute
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 650 4201
Fax: 27 21 685 2142

Patricia McFadden
Researcher
Five Colleges Women's Studies Research Center
720 South East Street
Amherst, MA
01002
United States
Tel: 1 413 256 0927
Tel: 1 413 256 0927

Florence Muhanguzi
Department of Women and Gender Studies
Makerere University
P.O Box 7062
Kampala
Uganda
Tel: 256 41 531 484
Fax: 256 41 543 539

Emebet Mulugetta
CERTWID
PO Box 150170
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Tel: 251-123338
Fax: 251-551333

Elaine Salo
Lecturer
African Gender Institute
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch, 7701
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 650 4209
Fax: 27 21 685 2142

Tammy Shefer
Director/Associate Professor
Women and Gender Studies
University of the Western Cape
Private Bag X17
Bellville, 7535
South Africa
Tel: 27 21 959 3360

Dora Shehu
Dept of Geography/Gender Programme
Usmanu Dandodiyo University
PMB 2346
Sokoto
Nigeria

Dzodzi Tsikata
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER)
University of Ghana
P.O. Box LG74
Legon
Ghana
233 21 501182/512502 (w)
233 21 502005 (h)
233 21 512504 (f)

Stella Viljoen
Lecturer
Department of Visual Arts
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, 0002
South Africa

Pamela Mhlanga
c/o SARDC WIDSAA
15 Downie Avenue
Harare
Zimbabwe
Tel: 00263 4 791141/43 (o)
Fax: 002634 791271 (o)