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 Recent ACW Publications
The African Women’s
Report, 1998; Post-Conflict Reconstruction: A Gender Perspective
This is a flagship publication of
ACW. The 1998 African Women’s Report presents the argument ‘Periods of crises
and their aftermath create both daunting challenges and exciting opportunities to bring
about fundamental change...the post-conflict period can offer a momentous occasion to
initiate far-reaching gender-aware policies and programs. This report covers issues such
as the socio-economic and gender dimensions of conflict and gender, governance and the
law.
Human Rights Education in the Formal Education System in Africa: A Gender
Dimension
This publication introduces the concept of
a rights-based approach to development and makes the argument that it is important for
governments to incorporate human rights education into the school curricula as a means of
promoting sustainable development, good governance, as a means of educating for a culture
of peace, and sensitizing youth to issues which have special relevance to women. It
includes information from various African States on the current situation regarding human
rights education in schools, involvement of NGOs and constraints. It stresses the
obligation States have as members of the United Nations and in most cases, as parties to
various legal instruments, to promote the understanding of human rights and eliminate
discrimination against girls and women. In the annexes, print and Internet-based sources
of information, methods of teaching human rights concepts and details of country responses
are presented.
The
newsletter of ACW covers recent activities, provides information on up-coming events and
includes articles on specific issues.
Gender Responsive Development: A Compendium of Good Practices
This
first edition was published in April 1998, by the World Bank as a contribution to the
conference and in order to stimulate debate at ECA’s 40th Anniversary Conference. It
provides examples of unorthodox projects and unconventional strategies that have been
successful and are worth emulating, and documents gender responsive development projects
and initiatives in Africa. It covers six broad categories: Gender and Economic Policy
Reform; Democratization, gender and Empowerment; Entrepreneurship and Grassroots
Management; Human Development and Life Skills; Agriculture, Infrastructure and
Environment; and, Mainstreaming Gender as an Institutional Policy. The projects cited are
initiatives by individuals, grassroots organizations, local non-governmental
organizations, with governments and international partners assisting in the
implementation. An updated version is planned for 2000.
Status of Women in Africa, 1998:
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country profiles. This is a compilation of gender-disaggregated data on the status of
women in the 53 ECA member States published in brochure format. The data contains selected
indicators in some areas of concern contained in the Beijing Platform for Action - among
them, women in decision-making, education, health, economic contribution of women, and the
rights of women and the girl-child. The brochures are intended to serve as information,
sensitization and advocacy tools. They provide a clear picture of the extent to which
governments and other sectors of the African society have succeeded in implementing
international instruments aimed at achieving gender equality. Currently, this is the
CD-ROM version in use while the book version is being prepared.
Women’s Access to Land and Agricultural Technology
This is a survey of the situation in 5 African
countries (selected from east and west Africa), namely, Burkina Faso, Guinea,
Kenya, Uganda and Senegal.
This is a survey of the situation in six African
countries (selected from east and west Africa), namely, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Senegal,
Tanzania and Uganda
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