In Acord Newsletter Issue 1: February 2001

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Article 13:

Useful resources

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1. Useful Publications
2. Advocacy Training
3. Recent Publications by ACORD Staff
4. ACORD Publications

Useful Publications

Gender, HIV and Human Rights: A Training Manual. 2000. Madhu Bala Nath, UNAIDS/UNIFEM, Gender and HIV Adviser.
This manual is a synthesis of research carried out in various parts of the world and is aimed at enhancing understanding of the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS. The manual includes a two-day training module on gender, HIV and human rights and offers a set of learning tools that can be used individually or as a package. It also contains a lot of useful facts and figures and discusses current issues and debates in this field. The manual can be downloaded from UNIFEM’s website: www.unifem.undp.org

Resource Guide for NGOs on How to Empower Women to Negotiate Safe Sex, 2000, by Madhu Bala Nath, United Nations Development for Women (2000). This resource guide was prepared as part of a collaborative UNIFEM/ UNAIDS/UNFPA programme on gender-focused responses to address challenges of HIV/AIDS. The aim is to enhance women’s assertiveness skills to enable them to negotiate safe sex and resist sexual violence. The guide is a useful adjunct to the manual and contains many of the same materials.

Review of African Political Economy, ROAPE No. 86 2000. Special Issue on AIDS.
This is an excellent overview of the AIDS issue and includes interesting articles on breastfeeding advice in Southern Africa. It links the HIPC debt initiative to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Africa, using Zambia as a case study. An article critically examines the notion of community ‘coping’ strategies in relation to HIV/AIDS with reference to S. Africa.

Training for Transformation: A Handbook for Community Workers, Book 4. Anne Hope and Sally Timmel. 
This is a practical and accessible workbook for community development workers. It recognises that the only changes which effectively transform the lives of poor people are those in which they have been active participants. This book gives many proven and practical ways of getting this process started.

Advocacy Training

In response to growing demand within the development sector, INTRAC, the International NGO Training and Research Centre, has just started providing advocacy skills training for staff of organisations committed to integrating advocacy into their overall programme and strategy. The training can be tailored to the specific needs of organisations. Unlike other advocacy courses, it is not limited to skills development in the area of parliamentary and political lobbying, but deals in general with public communications and influencing. For example, INTRAC was recently involved in advocacy skills training for Ugandan NGOs to facilitate their involvement in the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Project (UPPAP). The UPPAP is an initiative of the Ugandan government in response to World Bank pressure to ensure civil society participation in the production of Uganda’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. Without the necessary tools and skills, most Ugandan NGOs felt unable to exploit this opportunity. The training programme began by exploring strategies for increasing the influencing power of NGOs and will go on in the next phase to look at how national NGOs can work with and support the advocacy efforts of local NGOs and CBOs. As ACORD has adopted advocacy as a central part of its new mission, we need to ensure our staff have the necessary skills and confidence to take this work forward. For more information about the training, contact Ian Chandler, INTRAC consultant, at: The Pressure Group
Toddbrook, Weirs House, Weirs Lane, Oxford, OX1 4UP, UK,

Tel: +44 (0)1865 250642 e-mail: ianchandler@thepressuregroup.com www.thepressuregroup.com

Recent Publications by ACORD Staff

Gender and Forced Migration editorial by Judy El Bushra: Review 9, Forced Migration

Do weak states undermine masculinities? Chris Dolan, Insights, IDS, No35, Dec 2000.

Men Behaving Badly: Challenging Sexism in Namibia. Niki Kandirikirira, Insights, IDS, No35, Dec 2000

Voices of Iddirs

ACORD's Ethiopia programmes have published their second issue of 'Voices of Iddirs'. The publication, first published in 1999 as part of an award programme for CBOs involved in development, explores the concept, activities and experiences of Ethiopian iddirs working in partnership with ACORD.
For a copy of the publication, contact:
ACORD Ethiopia
PO Box 12377
Addis Ababa
Tel: 655 229

ACORD 1999 Annual Report

For a copy, please contact ACORD, London or any of the ACORD offices in Africa.

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