General Resources: Reports, Books, Articles

RECENT SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

Posted: 12-08-98
MAF Public Information Paper
http://www.maf.govt.nz/MAFnet/publications/rsocres/httoc.htm
All these reports have a common theme: to achieve the desired outcome there must be a common shared vision. To reach this vision all stakeholders need to be included - and that may require special efforts to include women and Maori, young people and older people, and rural people as well as urban residents. Location makes it particularly difficult for rural people to obtain information needed to run their businesses or obtain work, participate in social activities, and improve their well-being. Communication strategies need to take account of the location issue to ensure that rural people don’t miss out.

EMPOWERMENT : TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Naresh Singh and Vangile Titi (Eds.)
This collection overviews empowerment methods and challenges; highlights the need for reforms inherent in the principles of sustainable development; examines education as an empowerment tool; and indicates principles which must inform an operational strategy of empowerment.
1995. 198 pages. ISBN 1-85649-374-1 WE281Z US$22.50

GED GUIDE: The UNIFEM Gender, Environment and Development Guide

Published by UNIFEM.
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has established a global Women, Environment and Development Programme (WED) which aims to give poor women in the developing world the support they need to establish sustainable relationships with the environment. The WED programme was established in 1990 to promote the integration of women-and development concerns in the global environment debate. This report outlines the objectives of the GED guide.
gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/00/unifem/poli-eco/eco/susta/ged/intro

AMERICA'S COMMITMENT: FEDERAL PROGRAMS BENEFITING WOMEN AND NEW INITIATIVES AS FOLLOWUP TO THE UN FOURTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN

President's Interagency Council On Women
Published in May 1999 by: The President's Interagency Council on Women
In an effort to respond to the Beijing Platform as fully as possible, this report contains many policies and programs that have long been in place. However, there has been considerable activity since Beijing, and many new plans for implementation have been made.
http://secretary.state.gov/www/iacw/intro.html

MAPPING PROGESS
Assessing Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, 1998.

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).
Available from WEDO at 355 Lexington Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10017-6603, USA, Tel +1 212 973 0325, Fax +1 212 973 0335, email wedo@igc.apc.org

RISKS, RIGHTS AND REFORMS
A 50-Country Survey Assessing Government Actions Five Years After the International Conference on Population and Development

Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), Ed. by Bharati Sadasivam.
Available from WEDO at 355 Lexington Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10017-6603, USA, Tel +1 212 973 0325, Fax +1 212 973 0335, email wedo@igc.apc.org

THE HUMAN COST OF WOMEN'S POVERTY: PERSPECTIVES FROM LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

This anthology offers regional perspectives on the priority issues of the Social Summit (Copenhagen 1995): poverty, employment, and social integration. Covering such topics as structural adjustment, approaches to understanding women's poverty, and inequality in access to employment, these ten articles (some in Spanish) help to expand our understanding of the gender-differentiated impact of development.
1995. 161 pages. WE167Z US$12.95

A COMMITMENT TO THE WORLD'S WOMEN: PERSPECTIVES ON A DEVELOPMENT AGENDA FOR BEIJING AND BEYOND

Edited by Noeleen Heyzer, 1995, US$14.95.
What is the specific development agenda that women worldwide have been calling for over the past 20 years of organizing and activism? What can we extract and build on from the past five years of UN world conferences at which women have participated as the most visible and articulate force for change? More than 15 authors have contributed their thinking and insights to this book, presenting a multiplicity of visions of a women's development agenda for the major global issues of our time. With sections on economic restructuring, sustainable livelihoods, healthy communities and governance, this book gives readers a broad overview of the past, present and future of women's strategies for transforming the global policy agenda
This book can be ordered online from amazon.com from the following url:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0912917385/qid=932569352/sr=1-1/002-1060514-8742442

INTEGRATION OF POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT

By World Neighbors, 1998.
From World Neighbors' Lessons from the Field Series, this collection of articles explores the creative ways in which World neighbors and other oganizations are addressing population and environmental issues at the community level. Includes case studies of integrated programs as well as discussions on organizational needs and funding trends. The papers were originally presented at the American Public Health Association's 125th Annual Meeting in 1997. The authors represent a range of organizations involved in the work of linking population and environment, including Population Action International, The Summit Foundation, The University of Michigan Population-Environment Dynamics prohect, World Neighbors and World Wildlife Fund.
Available for FREE. Order this or other World Neighbor materials from their web-site at www.wn.org or by sending an email to order@wn.org

INTEGRATION OF POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENT II: ECUADOR CASE STUDY

By World Neighbors, 1999.
From World Neighbors' Lessons from the Field Series, presents the findings of a three-year Operations Research Project carried out in partnership by World Neighbors and the Ecuadorian family planning organization CEMOPLAF. The results support a compelling argument for implementing an integrated approach, combining reproductive health and agricultural/natural resource management programming, to address population and environment issues at the community level.
Available for FREE. Order this or other World Neighbor materials from their web-site at www.wn.org or by sending an email to order@wn.org

GLOBAL WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP. LESSONS FROM ADVANCING WOMEN

By Jill Merrick, with Virginia Clarke-Laskin
International Center for research on Women (ICRW) 1998, $ 7.50
Report from a four-day seminar, gathering 53 women from 32 countries - politicians, businesswomen, NGOs and representatives from international organizations.
Available from Order from: International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), 1717 Massachuchets Avenue NW, Suite 302, Washington, DC 20036, USA, Tel +1 202 797 0007, Fax +1 202 797 0020, icrw@igc.apc.org