RESOURCES & LINKS

• International and Intergovermental Organizations
• NGOs
• Research Centers and Academic Programs
• Statistics
• Useful Readings
• Newsletters
• Web Resources

 

 

 

International and Intergovernmental Organizations

(in alphabetical order)

• Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  • Gender and Development

• Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
  • Women's Human Rights Net (A Project of AWID)

• Belgian Directorate for International Cooperation (DGIC)

• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

• Commonwealth Secretariat

• Department for International Development (DFID), UK

• Ford Foundation

• German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)

• Global Fund for Women

• Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE)

• International Finance Corporation (IFC)
  • Environmental and Social Expertise

• International Trade Centre (ITC)
  • Gender and Poverty Related

• International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
  • Gender and Rural Poverty

• New Zealand Agency for International Development

• Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)

• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • Gender Equality

• Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• Status of Women Canada
  • Policy Research Publications

• Swedish International Development Cooperation (SIDA)

• Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC)

• United Nation (UN)
  • Division for the Advancement of Women Department of Economic and Social Affairs
  • Economic and Social Council
  • Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
    • African Centre for Gender and Development (ACGD)
  • Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
    • Gender Activities
  • Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
    • Gender Unit
  • Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
    • Gender and Development Section
  • Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
    • Center for Women
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
    • Division of Labor
    • Gender and Population Division
  • International Labor Organization (ILO)
    • Gender Coordination Unit of International Training Center
  • International Monetary Fund (IMF)
    • Country's Policy Intentions Documents
    • Social Policies
    • Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP)
    • Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF)
    • Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC)
  • International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
  • Inter-Agency Meeting on Sustainable Development (IAMSD)
  • Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
  • UNESCO
    • Culture, Women and Gender Equality
    • Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future - Gender focus
    • Women and Gender in Social and Human Sciences
    • Women and Water: Resources Supply and Use
  • UNICEF
    • Gender and Development
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
    • Human Development Report Office
    • Regional Bureau for Africa
    • Regional Bureau for Arab States
    • Regional Bureau for Asia Pacific
      • Rights and Development
    • Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS
      • Gender (Home)
      • Regional Programmes
      • Gender Virtual Library
    • Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
    • UN ESCAP - APGEN Asia Pacific Gender Equality Network
  • United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
  • United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
    • UNCTAD Global Programme on Globalization, Liberalization and Sustainable Human Development
  • United Nations Development Program's Gender in Development Programme
  • UNIFEM
  • United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI)
  • Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
  • Women Watch
  • World Bank
    • Gender Net
    • Comprehensive Development Framework
    • International Development Association (IDA)
    • Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook
      • Gender Chapter

 

 

NGOs

(in alphabetical order)

• CAWFAR --Center for Arab Women in Research

 

• Commonwealth Women's Network

• Economic Research Forum

• FEMNET The African Women Development and Communication Network

• Gender & Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation

• Global Policy Forum

• Human Rights Watch
  • Women's Rights

• International Centre for Research on Women's (ICRW)

• International Gender & Trade Network (IGTN)

• International Network for Homebased Workers (Homenet)

• Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG)

• OXFAM

• Network for African Women Economists (NAWE)

• Network Women in Development (WIDE)

• NGO Working Groups on Girls

• Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

• Social Science Research Council
  • International Forum for Development

• Social Watch

• TWN - Third World Network
  • TWN-Africa

• United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS)

• Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO)

• Women's World Banking

• Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

Research Centers and Academic Programs

(in alphabetical order)

African Gender Institute

• Center for Women Policy Studies

• Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era

• FLACSO

• IDS-Institute of Development Studies
  • Gender at IDS
    • Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
    • Institute for Women's Policy Research
    • International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
    • International Development and Research Center (IDRC)
    • International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS)
    • Women and Development (KULU)
    • Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
    • Society for International Development
    • The Levy Economics Institute
    • U.T.I.P. The University of Texas Inequality Project
    • Women Studies Programs Departments and Research Centers

    Statistics

    (in alphabetical order)

  (international sources, national sources)

International Sources

• Human Development Report (HDR) Indicators

• ILO Online Stats

• Institute for Social and Economic Research -University of Essex
  • Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS)

• International Labor Organization (ILO)

• The World Bank Group GenderStats

• UN ECA - ACGD (African Centre for Gender and Development)

• UNECE Gender Stats

• UNECLAC Gender Stats (Spanish)
  • Inventory of Gender Indicators and Tools Available in the United Nations System (English)

• UNESCAP

• UNESCO
  • Regional /subregional demographic and health surveys

• UNESCWA

• UNICEF Monitoring and Statistics
  • Statistical Tables (Table 7-Women)

• UNIFEM Resources
  • Progress of the World's Women
  • Progress of the World's Women - A Biennial Report
  • Women in Mongolia
  • Paving the Road Towards Empowerment
  • Evaluating the Status of Arab Women in Light of the Beijing Platform for Action
  • Sistema de Indicadores para el Seguimiento de la Situación de la Mujer en México - SISESIM (Spanish)

• UN Millennium Development Goals Database (MDG)

• UNSD -UN Statistics Division

• UNU-WIDER-UNDP World Income Inequality Database

• WIDNET Women in Development Network - Statistics

   

  National Sources

  • Canada

  • Canadian Council on Social Development

    Finland

  • Gender Statistics

    Kiribati

  • Gender Statistics

    Lesotho

  • Social Statistics

    Nordic Countries

  • Statistics on Gender Equality on Nordic Countries

    Palestine

  • Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

    Philippines

  • National Statistical Coordination Board

    Russia

  • Gender Statistics in Russia

    Thailand

  • Gender Statistics

    Turkey

  • Women Information Network in Turkey

    US

  • US Department of Labor - Women's Bureau

    Useful Readings

    • Rania Antonopoulos, General Studies Program, New York University

      Feminism, Economics and Society in the 20th Century

    • Nilufer Cagatay, Department of Economics, University of Utah

      Feminist Economics

      Economics of Gender II

      International Trade and Commercial Policy

    • Korkut Erturk, Department of Economics, University of Utah

      Advanced Monetary Theory,

      Macroeconomic Theory II

    • Maria Floro, Department of Economics, American University

      Newsletters and Advertisements

      (in alphabetical order)

       

    • The Fourth Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics, 29 June - 15 July, 2004 Queens' College, Cambridge, England
    • Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA)
    • Eldis Reporters
    • FEMNET The African Women Development and Communication Network
    • Global Development Network
    • RBEC Gender and Change Newsletter
    • The World Bank PovertyNet Newsletter
    • Women's Human Rights Net

    Web Resources

    • African Women Resources
    • BRIDGE online resources
    • British Library for Development Studies at IDS (BLDS)
    • Development Gateway
    • Devline
    • Feminist Africa (FA)
    • Gender Equality Links
    • Gender Responsive Budget Initiatives (GRBI)
    • Global Development Network (GDN)
    • Global Trade Negotiations Center for International Development at Harvard
    • Heterodox Economics Student Association, University of Utah
    • IAFFE
      • IAFFE-Europe
    • International Training Centre of the ILO (ITC/ILO)
    • Mapping the world of women information services
    • National Institute for Women (Spanish)
    • One World: Gender and Micro-finance resource page
    • Resources for Economists
    • SID-WID Network
    • Siyanda Mainstreaming Gender Equality
    • WIDE-Network of Women in Development
    • Women Action - Beijing+5 Review Process
    • Women's Net in South Africa