Resources on: Youth and Gender Equity
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Action on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS:Southern Africa
Southern African countries maintain HIV prevalence rates of over 25% amongst pregnant women attending antenatal clinics, while in East Africa figures have declined to below 15 per cent and in West Africa prevalence amongst pregnant women remains under 5 percent.
Beyond Girl Talk, Young Women Find a Voice
When it comes to youth media, it's far from a man's-or boy's-world. While many non-profit groups not focusing on athletics find that a majority of their youth membership is female, several youth media organizations work exclusively with young women.
Children, Youth and Gender Research Group
Reflecting a concern with issues of social relevance, the Children, Youth and Gender Research Group undertakes research relating to the lives of women, men, children and youth. In particular, we are interested in the socially and spatially uneven impacts of economic, political, cultural and social processes, and the ways in which these are experienced and responded to by individuals and groups.
Cross-Generational Relationships: Using a 'Continuum of Volition' in HIV prevention work among Young People
Recognising the link between HIV infection in adolescents, especially girls, and cross- generational relationships, Save the Children has been working with local partners, including girls, to develop locally appropriate strategies that help to protect girls, foster girls' ability to ensure the safety of these relationships, or enable them to make alternative choices.
Developing Countries Status of Education and Health in Young Girls and Women
Honourable Senators, today I wish to respond to the comments from Senator Rose-Marie Losier-Cool and Senator Andreychuk with respect to the study on the education and health of young girls and women that this house is preparing to carry out.
Employment Creation for Youth in Africa: The Gender Dimension
In the last two or more decades, Africa has been confronted with a multidimensional crisis with several symptoms including drought and famine, floods, wars, HIV/AIDS and various endemic diseases, and widespread poverty. Underlying all these is the phenomenon of unemployment which to some observers, is at the core of theproblems of the African sub-region (Sarr, 2000).
Empowering Women Around the World as Agents of Change
Mahalo, Gov. Linda Lingle, for that generous introduction. The Governor is too modest. I just read a July survey showing that she has a 73% approval rating. She's a great role model for women in Hawaii and around the world. I am delighted to be here in this magical place with its Aloha spirit and especially to be with so many inspiring women.
Expanding Women's Access to ICTs in Africa
Since the first United Nations World Conference on Women in Mexico , in 1975, women's opportunities for human-resource development have improved globally. Thanks to the efforts of individual countries and the international community, spectacular progress has been made in the fields of health and nutrition, education, childbirth, and rights.
FAWE Centering on Excellence
In sub-Saharan Africa , one of the strongest advocates for girls' education is the Nairobi-based Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE). Founded in 1992, it has developed a powerful network of top women government education ministers and women educators from across the sub-Saharan region who work along with the organization's 33 national chapters in 33 countries, as well as with other nongovernmental agencies, to promote awareness of the importance of providing educational access and opportunities for girls in the region.
Girl Power: girls' education, sexual behaviour and AIDS in Africa
Laying strong foundations for HIV protection and prevention
Girls educated to secondary and tertiary levels are more likely to wait before having sex, are much more likely to use condoms when they do have sex, and are therefore at much less risk of contracting HIV, according to a new report out today.
Girls, HIV/AIDS and Education
Though the infectious agent may be the same, the risks and consequences of contracting HIV can differ dramatically for girls and boys, and young women and men. As the epidemic grips developing countries, the gender differences play out in startling numbers and stories, and demand a gender-sensitive response . At a minimum, the privilege of good quality basic education as well as skills-based HIV/AIDS education must be extended equally to boys and girls.
Girls, Science and Technology
To express the idea that all young women, and all young people, can become scientists, resources selected for young women should depict roughly equal numbers of women and men, as well as people from many racial and ethnic groups, in positions of status and leadership in science and technology.
In war-torn Africa, young girls are very, very old
NEW YORK About three months ago, while visiting my birth country, Liberia , I walked into a local restaurant for a prearranged meeting with the father of an old school friend. His daughter and I had attended grammar school together as children, and although I don't see her much these days, I still identify her with my childhood: girl scout troop meetings; field trips up country to the zoo; sixth-grade class dances. I was delivering to her father some shirts he had requested from Ghana .
Preventing Hiv Infection In Girls And Young Women
Some 7,000 girls and women become infected with HIV every day. Globally, just under half of all adults living with HIV are now female. In most regions, women and girls make up an increasing proportion of the population living with HIV, and rates of female infection continue to rise - particularly in Eastern Europe , Asia and Latin America .
Promotion of education for young girls and women in Africa - Dakar
Lying at the heart of development and progress, primary education represents the most important sub-section of the whole educational system. It has the unique characteristic of contributing to the transformation of society through educating the youngest. Since the Jomtien Conference (PDF* ) , held in Thailand in 1990, enrolment figures for primary schools have increased in absolute terms.
The Education of Girls in the Developing World
Fellow delegates, distinguished panelists, and guests, good afternoon and welcome. I thank Ambassador Bolton and the U.S. Mission for organizing this event, and I want to acknowledge especially Gretchen Bolton, who has worked tirelessly to promote worldwide literacy.
The Potential of Women and Young Girls: Shared Reflections
If there was a central theme in the workshop on women and girls for us, the theme was time. The western concept of time is that time is money, but the more grounded sense of time is that time is life itself. It is what we have, or what we are granted, when we are born.
What Girls and Women Should Know About AIDS
group of teenage girls in Zambia gathers outside a local market to watch a theatre group perform skits about HIV/AIDS. The actors are singing humorous songs about condoms and teasing the audience about teenage sexuality as one of them hands out condoms to the crowd. The girls laugh among themselves and tease each other as they slip the condoms into their pockets.
Where Are The Girls?
By contributing to what is currently known about girls' distinct experiences in fighting forces, the presentation of findings from our study of girls in fighting forces is intended to assist the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the United Nations, other donors, conflictaffected governments, and local, national and international governmental and non-governmental organizations in developing policies and programs to help protect and empower girls in situations of armed conflict and postwar reconstruction.
Why Invest in Young People?
Investing in the second decade of life should be part of regular business at each level of the development community." This was the message delivered by the Population Council in a World Bank workshop on adolescent health. Neglecting young people's health will reduce or negate the benefits of past government expenditures in child survival, childhood communicable diseases, and education as well as curtail future economic and social development.
Why we are failing African girls
Africa is in the death grip of HIV/Aids and a generation of African girls is standing on the frontline of the carnage. In the countries worst affected by HIV/Aids, girls and women are infected at higher rates than boys and men - in some age groups, up to five times higher.
Women with 2020 Vision
Laketch Dirasse, is a Social and Urban Anthropologist with over twenty five years of development management, research, consultancy and training/teaching experience with international agencies, governmental and non-governmental organisations and academic institutions. She is currently Chief, Africa Section of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) having served as its Regional Programme Director for East, Central and the Horn of Africa (1997-2000) and Senior Manager of the African Women in Crisis Umbrella Programme (1993-1997).
Working Group on Female Participation
Founded in 1990, ADEA's Working Group on Female Participation (WGFP) is composed of African ministers of education, funding agencies, researchers, planners and African NGOs. Together, they seek effective ways to bring girls and women into the classroom. The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) serves as lead agency for the consortium.
World AIDS Day 2004: The Vulnerability of Women and Girls
(November 2004) The face of HIV/AIDS continues to quickly become young and female-a trend highlighted by the UN's current World AIDS Campaign, which culminates in the 18th annual World AIDS Day on December 1.
World AIDS Day, December 1: Women and Girls
Summary: While the U.S. fights over abstinence vs. condoms, neither one is an option for many women, due to sexual violence -- throughout the world, from a fifth to half of all girls and young women report that their first sexual experience was forced. Women are twice as likely as men to be infected through a single act of unprotected sex. In parts of Africa more than a third of all teenage girls have HIV. But going to school is protective. These are just a few of the facts about HIV and gender that need to be more widely known.
Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa: Perspectives from Ghana and the Gambia
In this paper we report on preliminary fieldwork conducted in Ghana and The Gambia on the interrelationships among youth, gender and livelihoods. We examine how policy in developing countries, typically characterised as related to child labour or education, needs to emphasise the linkage across processes that affect young people.
Youth, training and employment
The concept of gender refers to the social distribution of roles and responsibilities of men and women that influence options, habits and performances.
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African Center for Gender and Social Development
The overall objective of the African Center for Gender and Development (ACGD) is to inform and influence the content as well as the direction of economic and social development within Africa , with a view to making them more gender- responsive.
African Women on the Internet
Wide range of links related on African Woman.
African Youth Alliance
Gender is at the center of sexuality and youth development. While sex determines the biological differences between males and females, gender identifies the social roles and relations associated with being male or female. Gender defines the norms and expectations about appropriate male and females behavior and the interaction between the sexes.
Arab African Youth Forum
More than 50 young women participated in the first joint Youth Forum organized by the Arab Region and the Africa Region. This exciting event, with the theme 'Take the lead', promoted leadership among young women in both regions.
Campaign for Female Education
(CAMFED) is dedicated to fighting poverty and AIDS in rural communities in Africa by educating girls. CAMFED began in 1993 by supporting 32 girls in rural Zimbabwe . In 2005, more than 246,520 children benefited from CAMFED's programme of educational support in some of the poorest regions of Zimbabwe , Zambia , Ghana and Tanzania .
Educating girls
Columbia College and The Earth Institute Present a Photo Exhibit Documenting Life for Young Girls Living in The Slums of Kenya , Africa
From words to action: ICTs, Youth and Gender Equity
Access to information, knowledge and increased interaction among different social groups and cultures are one of today's tops issues, and are directly linked to the development of an information Society (also known as the knowledge Society). Currently, many developing countries in are dedicating significant effort and resources to achieve the goals of the information society, with governments devising explicit ICT policies so as to sustain and encourage the idea.
International Youth Day 2005- Activities in Africa
Based on information gathered through both formal and informal discussions with adolescents and youth in various African countries, discussions with non-governmental organizations, and findings from current work within its programs, the African Regional Youth Initiative (ARYI) has recognized that adolescents and youth in Africa often lack representation or are not included in national and international decision-making processes.
Leading Change: CAMA
CAMA is a network of young African women committed to the eradication of poverty. After discussions between CAMFED, parents and teachers, the first group of girls to complete education with CAMFED's support formed CAMA in Zimbabwe in 1998. CAMA members have all experienced poverty and its consequences and, as a result of this experience, have empathy with rural girls and a deep understanding of the gender and class dynamics of rural communities.
Women and girls
The epidemic's impact is particularly hard on women and girls as the burden of care usually falls on them. Girls drop out of school to care for sick parents or for younger siblings. Older women often take on the burden of caring for ailing adult children and later, when these adult children die, adopt the parental role for the orphaned children.
Women and Girls with Disabilities
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is committed to ensuring equal educational opportunities for all girls and women. For girls, and those with disabilities in particular, additional safeguards and precautions may be necessary to ensure that their unique needs are not overlooked.
