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In This Issue:
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I. Quick Guide: Empowerment
II. Country Focus: Venezuela
III. Experts and Consultants Database: Empowerment
IV. Latest additions: resources on masculinities, climate change, energy and more...
V. Contribute section: share your opinions and latest news

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I. Quick Guide: Empowerment
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What enables women to empower themselves? What drives and sustains change in gendered power relations?

- Women's Empowerment: An Annotated Bibliography, compiled by Esplen, E., Heerah, S. and Hunter, C., BRIDGE and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) ‘Pathways of Women's Empowerment' Research Programme Consortium (RPC), 2006
The bibliography presents a range of materials which discuss women's empowerment, presenting varied perspectives in order to provide an accessible introduction to key concepts, approaches and debates.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/bridge_rpc_empowerbiblio.htm

- Women's Empowerment through Sustainable Micro-Finance: Rethinking “Best Practice”, Mayoux, L., 2006
This report challenges assumptions about the automatic benefits of micro-finance for women.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/mayoux_empowerment.htm

- Measuring Women's Empowerment: Participation and Rights in Civil, Political, Social, Economic, and Cultural Domains, Moghadam, V.M. and Senftova, L., 2005
In examining attempts to measure women's empowerment, this article offers a framework of its own.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/moghadam_empowerment.htm

- Policy Arena. Assessing Women's Empowerment: Towards a Conceptual Framework, Mosedale, S., 2005
Showing the diversity of opinions in the empowerment debate, this paper goes on to propose a conceptual framework within which empowerment can be assessed.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/mosedale_empowerment.htm

- Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: A Critical Analysis of the Third Millennium Development Goal, Kabeer, N., 2005
Through discussion of the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on gender equality and women's empowerment, this paper highlights ways in which the indicators associated with this goal - on access to education, share of employment, and political participation - can contribute to women's empowerment.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/kabeer_empowerment.htm

- Measuring Empowerment in Practice: Structuring Analysis and Framing Indicators, Alsop, R. and Heinsohn, N., 2005
This paper presents an analytical framework that can be used to measure and monitor empowerment processes and outcomes.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/alsop_empowerment.htm

- Taking Action: Achieving Gender Equality and Empowering Women, Grown, C., Rao Gupta, G. and Kes, A., 2005
Prepared by the United Nations (UN) Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality, this report identifies strategic priorities and practical actions for achieving women's empowerment by 2015.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/grown_empowerment.htm

- Bridging the Digital Gender Divide: Issues and Insights on ICT for Women's Economic Empowerment, Gurumurthy, A., 2003
This document draws lessons from specific projects and programmes which focus on women's economic empowerment in South Asia.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/bridge_rpc_empowerbiblio.htm

- The Terms of Women's Empowerment: Islamic Women Activists in Egypt, Hafez, S., 2003
This study asserts that Islamic women are not dominated and oppressed, but instead are empowered as a result of their willing submission to higher levels of religious attainment.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/hafez_islamicempower.htm

You can find additional resources on Empowerment through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/
The entries in this feature are also available on the BRIDGE website: http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/ in the form of an annotated Women's Empowerment bibliography, produced with the aid of partners of the Pathways to Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium at IDS. The bibliography is directed towards those who want an accessible grounding in the key concepts concerning women's empowerment and information on current approaches and debates.

Religion will be the next Quick Guide theme. Users are invited to suggest resources on this topic for possible inclusion in the database: http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/. Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes: http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm.

II. Country Focus: Venezuela
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- The Millennium Goals and Gender Equality. The Venezuelan Case (Spanish), Bravo, R., 2005
By looking at all available data on gender equality in Venezuela, this study highlights gaps and challenges for users and producers of statistics, and for policy makers.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/bravo_venezuela.htm

- Women in Bolivarian Venezuela Part 2: The Bolivarian Response to the Feminization of Poverty in Venezuela, Wagner, S., 2005
This article outlines strategies to combat the growing feminisation of poverty in Venezuela, using the example of the Women's Development Bank (Banmujer).
http://www.siyanda.org/static/wagner_venezuela.htm

- On the Urgent Inclusion of a Gender Perspective in the Quantitative Information of the Reports Compiled by Various United Nations Agencies on the Millennium Development Goals (Spanish), Espina, G., 2004
This document provides a detailed analysis of the Venezuela country progress report on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/espina_venezuela.htm

III. Experts and Consultants Database: Empowerment
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The Siyanda Experts and Consultants Database contains numerous resources on empowerment. These include the following publications:
- Empowerment, Equality, Equity, Mainstreaming or Gender Democracy? Meentzen, A., 2005
- Evaluation of DFID Development Assistance: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment. Phase II, Rose, P. (co-writer), 2005
- Cooperation for Advancement, Rehabilitation and Education (CARE): Empowerment through Education, Rehman, M. (co-writer), 2004
- Overcoming the Digital Divide: Understanding ICTs and their Potential for the Empowerment of Women, Huyer, S. (co-author), 2003
- Documentation from the Working Seminar on Methods for Measuring Women's Empowerment in a Southern African Context, Bjorling, B. (coordinator and co-author), 2002
- Female Empowerment and Dramatic Creativity, Evwierhoma, M., 2002
- Assessing the Impact: NGOs and Empowerment, in Women and Empowerment: Process and Contradictions, Dawson, E., 1998
- Arab Women Speak Out: Profiles of Self-Empowerment, Goodsmith, L. (co-writer), 1997

For further details on these publications, copy and paste or type the author's last name into either the Name or Search Words field on the Experts and Consultants search page: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/.

The Siyanda Gender Experts and Consultants Database, with over 900 profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting practitioners, researchers, activists, students and experts with like-minded colleagues, persons working on similar themes, or in the same geographical location. It is also an excellent resource for those seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies.

IV. Latest additions:
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Please find below a selection of materials recently added to the Siyanda database:
- Islamic Masculinities, Ouzgane, L. (Ed.), 2006
- Great Ancestors: Women Asserting Rights in Muslim Contexts – A Training and Information Kit, Shaheed, F. and Lee-Shaheed, A., 2005
- Young Men and the Construction of Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict, and Violence, Barker, G. and Ricardo, C., 2005
- Gender and Climate Change: Giving the "Latecomer" a Head Start, IDS, 2004
- Gender, Business and Poverty, Barrientos, S., 2002
- New Hope or False Dawn? Voluntary Codes of Conduct, Labour Regulation and Social Policy in a Globalising World, Pearson, R. and Seyfang, G., 2001
- Generating Opportunities: Case Studies on Energy and Women, Misana, S. and V. Karlsson, G. (Eds.), 2001
- Mainstreaming Gender through Sector Wide Approaches in Education: India Case Study, Smawfield, D. and Poulsen, H., 2000

You can locate more Latest Additions here: http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm, or through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/ (copy and paste the title without characters such as ":" ";" and "-" or copy and paste the author's last name into the Search box).

(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team members. This update was edited by Justina Demetriades)

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