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This is the annual 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.
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.
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 African
society have succeeded in implementing international instruments aimed at achieving gender
equality. This CD-ROM serves as an updated version of the brochures.
This first edition was published in April
1998, by the World Bank as a contribution to ECA's 40th Anniversary and Conference on
African Women and Economic Development. It documents examples of unorthodox
projects, gender responsive initiatives and unconventional strategies that have been
successful and that are worth emulating 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.
This is a survey of the situation in 5
African countries (east and west Africa) namely, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Kenya, Senegal and
Uganda.
This is a survey of the situation in six
African countries (East and West Africa) namely, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania
and Uganda.
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