In Acord Newsletter Issue 2: June 2001

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Article 11:

Useful resources

• Programme Development Puzzle: Making the Pieces Fit is a practical 94 page handbook from the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC). Written by three CompassPoint staff (when its name was Support Centre for Nonprofit Management), this handbook is a step-by-step guide to developing a new programme, budgeting for it, fitting the programme into the organisation, and writing a proposal to fund it. Available free on the web as a pdf file at: http://www.nmac.org/NewsLetters/NMAC/Technical/puzzle.pdf (Source: Board Cafe newsletter, CompassPoint NonProfit Services and the National Centre for Nonprofit Boards.)
  
• Global Challenge, Local Response is a training pack consisting of a video and a facilitator's guide. The pack forms part of VSO's approach to mainstreaming and integrating HIV/AIDS issues and considerations into all its work in Southern Africa. It is primarily aimed at preparing new VSO volunteer development workers for playing a part in addressing HIV/AIDS during their stay in Southern Africa, and is being used as part of an integrated in-country training programme. The video, introduced by Elton John, was shot in Namibia and Zambia and is 28 minutes long. The pack is available for sale at £20 (excl. post and packaging). To order, send an e-mail to raisa@vso.org.uk
  
• Beijing Plus Five Project: Final Report; Gender and Development Network. This is the final report of a project set which out to conduct a review of UK based NGOs to find out how they had progressed in implementing and promoting the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA). For a copy, contact GAD Network, c/0 Womankind Worldwide, 3^rd Floor Viking House, 5 -11 Worship Street, London EC2A 2BH.
  
• How to Challenge a Colossus: Engaging with the World Bank and the IMF by Geraldine Terry, February 2001, Gender and Development Network. This report was written to help UK-based Gender and Development (GAD) advocates to develop effective strategies aimed at influencing the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. It tries to show how the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) can be used to lobby on key issues of the Bank and the Fund's work, suggests broad strategies and identifies relevant targets. For a copy contact GAD Network, address as above.
  
• Latin American Experiences of Gender, Conflict and Building Sustainable Peace: Challenges for Columbia by Caroline Moser and Fiona Clark. Report on a conference held in Bogota, Columbia in May 2000.

WEB BASED RESOURCES

United Nations INSTRAW-GAINS invites you to join its collaborative programme on "Men's Roles and Responsibilities in Ending Gender-Based Violence". This programme has two collaborative activities: a set of working papers and an e-mail based Virtual Seminar Series focused on men and ending gender-based violence. Experts and activists in the field facilitate each seminar. The series began on 20 June with the question "How can conversations around men, masculinities and power help us understand and end gender based-violence?" .You can join the programme mailing list by sending an email with "subscribe" as the subject to EMVnet-request@un-instraw.org.

By joining the programme you can participate in:

• the discussions of the Virtual Seminar Series
• a forum for information and resource exchange
• opportunities for Partnership Building and updates
• Summaries of the Working Paper Series.

The mailing list will last only the duration of the programme (June-December 2001) unless the community agrees to further activities. For complete information on these activities please see http://www.un-instraw.org/mensroles/ or send an e-mail to James Lang, jlang@un-instraw.org.

The Kabissa-Fahamu eNewsletter is an extremely useful and detailed free, weekly information service and advocacy tool for social justice in Africa. It links to the week's most important news articles on: conflict, emergencies, and crises; rights and democracy; corruption; health; education and social welfare; women and gender; refugees and forced migration; racism and xenophobia; environment; media; development; the internet and technology.It also points to updates in fundraising, courses, seminars, and workshops. More than 3000 individuals in NGOs, international organisations and networks, funding agencies and foundations, governments, and the private sector are currently subscribed to the eNewsletter. For further information and to subscribe see: http://www.fahamu.org.uk/kfn/index.php

The Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) have launched a useful new website at http://www.kabissa.org/wougnet/ The organisation's goal is to promote the use of information and communication technologies by women organisations and individuals for the better being of Ugandan women. The WOUGNET website profiles women organisations based in Uganda (including links to their websites where available) as well as women related projects and activities in a variety of areas including agriculture, business, education, health and women in parliament.

RECENT ACORD PUBLICATIONS/ RESOURCES

• Formation en Decentralisation des agents, formateurs et partenaires: rapport de synthese, CENAFOD-MALI (Centre National d'Appui et de Formation pour le Developpement des Resources Humaines), ACORD KIDAL. April 2000.
  
• Elements de Synthese Relatifs a la Particapation de ACORD a l'atelier sur "Capacity Building Workshop on Trade and Development in Africa", by Fati Aboubacrine, ACORD Kidal, Seid Sultane Ali, ACORD Chad. May 2001.
  
• Collapsing Masculinities and Weak States: a case study of Northern Uganda by Chris Dolan, Research Officer, ACORD, April 2001.
  

• Research into the Living Conditions of Children who are Heads of Households in Rwanda, ACORD Rwanda Team, March 2001.
  

• Building capacity at the grassroots: a review of lessons from ACORD’s experience in Southern Africa by Alex Shankland, April 2001

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