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Appendix 2: links

International agreements binding Finland and the cooperation countries include:

The Platform for Action of the UN’s 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women:
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/platform/ 

Website of the Beijing Conference’s follow-up meeting, “Beijing+5”
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/confer/beijing5/

UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women:
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/cedaw/

Programme of Action of the UN’s Cairo International Conference on Population and Development:
http://www.unfpa.org/icpd/

Development Goals of the UN’s Millennium Declaration:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ 

OECD / DAC Guidelines for Promoting Gender Equality:
http://www.oecd.org/dac  

Information about gender equality and women’s rights on UN and  international NGO websites: 

http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

http://www.undp.org/gender/

http://www.awid.org

http://www.worldbank.org/gender

http://www.cedpa.org

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/gender/links.htm 

The Canadian International Development Agency gender equality website has a lot of material about gender analysis and links to different gender equality publications:
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/equality 

The Swedish International Development Agency’s gender equality programme:
http://www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=192 

The Institute of Development Studies in Sussex has Eldis and Siyanda sites with a lot of country and theme information, links, publications and discussion forums, including gender equality in development:
http://www.eldis.org/gender/

http://www.siyanda.org/ 

The ILO’s site has a practical training pack for gender equality in development cooperation:
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/mdtmanila/training/homepage/mainmenu.htm

The Engender Health website’s practical training pack concerns sexual and reproductive health and rights:
http://www.engenderhealth.org/res/onc/ 

Some Finnish links about gender equality and women’s rights in development cooperation:

Department for Development Policy of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland:
Development policy themes: Gender, women 

Unifem in Finland:
http://www.suomenunifem.fi/ 

Finnwid – Women in Development
http://www.saunalahti.fi/finnwid/ 

KEPA - Service Centre for Development Cooperation:
http://www.kepa.fi/teemat/tasa-arvo/

Mainstreaming gender equality as a part of the Government of Finland’s gender programme:
http://www.eurofem.net/valtavirtaan 

Finland’s Council for Equality, and Ombudsman for Equality:
http://www.tasa-arvo.fi/ 

Gender equality tool pack from the Office of Finland’s Ombudsman for Gender Equality:
http://www.tasa-arvo.fi/julkaisuja/tyokalupakki.html 

Amnesty International – Women’s rights group:
http://www.amnesty.fi/akkaryhma/ 

The Finnish Oneworld portal also contains gender equality information in Finnish:
http://www.maailma.net

Sources used in this training package:

 Airaksinen, Kirsi; Pönni, Anne ja Seppo, Maija (toim.): Kuka pelkää genderiä? Sukupuoliroolit hankeyhteistyössä. Finnwid ja Kepa. Kepan raporttisarja nro 46/2001. Helsinki 2001. (In Finnish) 

Vainio-Mattila, Arja: Navigating Gender. A framework and tool for participatory development. Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Helsinki 1999. 

Guidelines on Gender Analysis. Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Helsinki 1995. 

Development Cooperation Manual for NGOs, including guidelines for project support. Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Development for Development Policy. Helsinki 2000. 

Naiset, miehet ja kehitys. Tasa-arvo Suomen kehitysyhteistyössä. Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. Helsinki 1999. (In Finnish) 

Strategy and Action Plan for Promoting Gender equality in Finland’s Policy for Developing Countries 2003-2007 Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Department for Development Policy. Helsinki 2003. 

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Training Pack on Gender Issues. CD-ROM. Geneva 2002. 

Williams Suzanne: The Oxfam Gender Training Manual. Oxfam. 1994. 

The Centre for Development and Population Activities CEDPA: Género, Salud Reproductiva y Defensa y Promoción. Manual de Capacitación. Washington D.C. 2000. (in Spanish)

Promoting Gender Equality in Population and Development Programmes: Best Practices and Lessons Learnt. United Nations Population Fund UNFPA. New York 1999. 

Moser, Caroline: Gender Planning and Development. Theory, Practice and Training. Routledge. London 1993. 

Slocum, Wichhart, Rocheleau, Thomas-Sleyter (ed.): Power, Process and Participation. Tools for Change. ITDG Publishing. London 1995. 

Young, Kate: Planning from a Gender Perspective: Making a World of Difference. To be found in: Visvanathan, Duggan, Nisonoff, Wiegersma (ed.): The Women, Gender & Development Reader. Zed Books Ltd. London 1997. 

Mikkelsen Britha: Methods for Development Work and Research. A Guide for Practitioners. Sage Publications. New Delhi 1995. 

www.eurofem.net/valtavirtaan

http://www.undp.org/gender/

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/mdtmanila/training

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca

http://www.awid.org

http://www.engenderhealth.org

23.04.2004