CIVICUS Better Planning and Communication Toolkits Campaigning Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations engaged in Millennium Development Goals Gender Toolkits Websites with a Gender Focus Gender and Disaster Network The Gender and Disaster Network is an educational project initiated by women and men interested in gender relations in disaster contexts. It emerged from an early morning meeting during the July 1997 Natural Hazards Research and Applications Center workshop in Denver, Colorado.
Gender Campus at the International Labour Organisation The Gender Campus is the new virtual meeting place for the community of gender experts, advocates and sympathizers of the Gender Coordination Unit of the ILO International Training Centre. It includes a gate to enter all our on-line learning courses and many more facilities.
Gender, Science and Technology Gateway The Gender, Science and Technology Gateway is a resource for researchers, policy makers, and NGOs. It provides key links and information on research, practice, policy and partners in sustainable development which focuses on gender equality to promote sustainable and equitable science and technology for development.
Siyanda: A Project of BRIDGE, Institute of Development Studies , University of Sussex Siyanda is a very useful on-line database of gender and development materials. It is also an interactive space where gender practitioners can share ideas, experiences and resources.
The Gateway to Development Tools (Eldis): Gender Resource Guide Offers gender related information on a range of issues including education, health, conflict, trade, poverty, HIV/AIDS and statistics.
Asian Development Bank: Gender and Development Particularly helpful are their sections on Sectoral Gender Checklists (i.e. gender checklist for Urban Development, Health, and Education), Gender Equality in ADB Projects and Publications.
Canadian International Development Agency: Gender Equality See brief online guide to "What is gender analysis" as well as their section on Tools & Resources which has a couple good publications on gender-sensitive indicators. CIDA also provides links to national and international NGO's working on issues related to gender.
The World Bank: GenderStats GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators. It offers statistical and other data in modules on several subjects. The data in each module is presented in ready-to-use format. Users have the option of saving the country views in Excel (or other spreadsheet software) to customize them for their own reports.
UNDP: Gender Mainstreaming This site has a lot of helpful information on gender mainstreaming including Fact Sheets that discuss gender mainstreaming in different UNDP policy areas (i.e. water governance, HIV/AIDS, and parliamentary development).
World Health Organisation: Gender, Women, and Health A wealth of information on gender mainstreaming, gender based violence, gender and HIV/AIDS and general health issues.
The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) AWID is an international membership organisation connecting, informing and mobilising people and organisations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.
WWSF Women's World Summit Foundation WWSF, an international, non-profit, non-confessional empowerment NGO (with UN consultative status ECOSOC, UNFPA and DPI) serves to help implement women’s and children’s rights and the UN Millennium Development Goals MDGs.
Agenda Agenda as a feminist media organisation in Africa is committed to giving women a forum, a voice and skills to articulate their needs and interests towards transforming unequal gender relations. Its website contains links to gender resources that are free to use and access.
The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CIVICUS Member) The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) was founded as a project of Douglass College in 1989 and is a unit of the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL), a consortium of six women's programs at Rutgers University created to study and promote how and why women lead, and to develop programs that prepare women of all ages to lead effectively.
Women's Environment & Development Organisation (CIVICUS Member) Founded in 1991, the Women's Environment & Development Organisation (WEDO) is an international organisation that advocates for women’s equality in global policy.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom The Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom, hereinafter referred to as WILPF brings together women of different political beliefs and philosophies who are united in their determination to study, make known and help abolish the causes and legitimisation of war. International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN) The International Gender and Trade Network is a network of feminist gender specialists who provide technical information on gender and trade issues to women's groups, NGOs, social movements and governments.
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) UNIFEM produces a variety of publications and tools that are available for free in electronic form on this website. Print copies may be for sale and are available through WomenInk; select titles can also be ordered from Kumarian Press.
Women's Learning Partnership ( WLP) WLP is a builder of networks, working with 18 autonomous and independent partner organizations in the Global South, particularly in Muslim-majority societies, to empower women to transform their families, communities, and societies.
WIDE WIDE is a European feminist network of women’s organisations, development NGOs, gender specialists and women’s rights activists.
IWMF - International Women’s Media Foundation IWMF is committed to strengthening the role of women in the news media around the world, based on the belief that no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice.
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