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 This free CD
contains a resource collection of free games, training manuals,
workshop guides etc. for teachers, trainers and development workers who
are working for and with girls. It includes interactive and
participatory training guides and resources on rights,
empowerment, violence against women and girls, HIV/AIDS, sexuality
and reproductive health and leadership development
Coordinated by Joeyta Bose, assisted by Sofia
Binioris
AN ANNOTATED LIST OF CONTENTS OF THIS CD
The contents of this
CD can be downloaded in full from this page. Click on the title of each to
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1. Empowering Young Women to Lead Change: A Training
Manual
(click title to download)
World
YWCA and UNFPA
This manual, conceived by the YWCA and UNFPA, is a
creative training tool designed to put young women in control of educating
and empowering themselves to take action on key issues that affect their
lives. Designed by a group of women leaders and activists under the age of
30 from nine countries, the modules foster self-determined approaches to
developing leadership skills and awareness of strengths and rights in
seven areas: HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, self esteem and
body image, violence against women, human rights, economic justice and
peace. The manual provides young women with information and tools to gain
insights into the issues, facilitate training to educate and mobilize
peers, develop advocacy skills and take concrete action on the issues.
Tested in Belarus, Jamaica, El Salvador, Lebanon, the Philippines and
Zambia, and available in English, French and Spanish, the curriculum is
fun and flexible, and each module may be used alone or combined to create
an eight-day leadership development training.
Also available
at: http://www.unfpa.org/publications/detail.cfm?ID=304&filterListType=3
2. Making Waves: How Young Women Can (and Do) Transform
Organizations and Movements (click title to
download)
Association for Women in Development (AWID)
In this
paper, Lydia Alpizar and Shamillah Wilson explain some reasons why young
women are not choosing careers that focus on the empowerment of women or
gender and development. While the authors provide some answers to
questions on the importance of involving more young women and what
constrains their involvement in these movements, they also offer up
practical strategies and case studies to show how strong multigenerational
organizations and movements are built.
Also available at: http://www.awid.org/publications/OccasionalPapers/spotlight5_en.pdf
3. Act Now! A Resource Guide for Young Women on
HIV/AIDS
(click title to download)
Sisonke
Msimang and Shamilla Wilson, UNIFEM and AWID
Aimed at young women
who are actively advocating around the issue of gender equality and
HIV/AIDS in their communities, this manual is based on the thoughts,
opinions, stories and concrete strategies provided by over 500 women who
were participating in an online discussion that explored the
intersections between youth, gender and HIV/AIDS; emerging
challenges and successes in HIV/AIDS for young people, particularly young
women; and ways in which youth can participate in addressing gender and
youth issues in HIV/AIDS programs. In addition to providing an
overview of HIV/AIDS as a gender issue and highlighting youth and women’s
organizations that are active in this area, the manual provides a useful
guide for planning a workshop for young women on this topic. It includes
notes for the facilitator, activities and handouts that can be reproduced
for this purpose.
Also available at: http://www.awid.org/publications/ActNow.pdf
4. Facing the Challenge of New Reproductive
Technologies
(click title to download)
Association
for Women in Development (AWID)
This primer is a guide to the
current debates on new reproductive technologies (NRTs), how they are
changing political landscapes, and their potential effects on women’s
human rights. Based on the belief that women’s sexual and reproductive
health rights, including ensuring access to appropriate reproductive
technologies, has been a cornerstone in the fight for women’s human rights
and freedoms, this paper explains why young women need to be informed
about these technologies, the often-contradictory forces that are shaping
the debate about them and whether they help or hinder young women’s
rights.
Also available at: http://www.awid.org/publications/primers/factsissues8.pdf
5. Girls, HIV/AIDS and Education
(click
title to download)
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
& UNICEF
Providing good-quality basic education and
skills-based prevention education is fundamental to reversing
the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly for girls. This
report provides an international overview on the topic of girls,
education and HIV/AIDS and provides graphic and tabular evidence that
links sexual knowledge/behaviour and educational level among young people.
It outlines three priorities that support schools in protecting girls and
mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS: getting and keeping girls in school;
proving life skills-based education; and protecting girls from
gender-based school violence
Also available at: http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_25047.html
6. Positive Women’s Survival Kit
(click
title to download)
The International Community of Women Living with
HIV/AIDS (ICW)
Produced by and for women and girls living with
HIV/AIDS, this kit addresses the topics like dealing with a positive
diagnosis, disclosure, staying healthy, childbirth and breastfeeding, sex
and sexuality, grief and loss etc. It also includes fact sheets on
several topics including HIV/AIDS and transmission, tips for eating well,
reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, self help groups, drug use
and harm reduction, condoms, human rights and HIV.
Also
available at: http://www.siyanda.org/Static/icw_survival_kit.htm
7. Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV-Positive Women and
Adolescent Girls: Manual for Trainers and Programme
ManagersEngenderHealth & the International
(click title to download)
Community of Women Living with
HIV/AIDS (ICW)
Aimed at health workers who are working at community
level with women and adolescent girls with HIV/AIDS, this manual provides
a comprehensive 4-day training agenda and 2-day planning workshop on
integrating sexual and reproductive rights counselling with HIV/AIDS
services. The 19 participatory sessions are designed for a local context
and cover topics like adolescent sexuality, pregnancy and HIV/AIDS;
counselling HIV-positive girls on sexual and reproductive rights, ethical
issues in counselling; and addressing sexuality with HIV-positive women
and girls. It was field-tested in Brazil, Ethiopia, and the
Ukraine.
Also available at: http://www.engenderhealth.org/res/offc/hiv/women/index.html
8. Dreams and Desires: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Experiences of HIV Positive Women
(click title to
download)
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) &
the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
(ICW)
These thirteen stories from courageous women from around the
world aim to highlight what it means to be a sexually active HIV positive
woman. This collection digs deep into what HIV positive women dream about
and desire, in relation to their sexual and reproductive health, and
unearths what it means to be a woman living with HIV.
Also
available at:
http://content.ippf.org/output/ORG/files/5332.pdf
9a. Gender or Sex: Who Cares? Skills-building resource pack
on gender and reproductive health for adolescents and youth workers, with
a special emphasis on violence, HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infections
(STIs), unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion
(click
title to download)
Ipas and Health & Development Networks
(HDN)
Aimed at volunteers, professionals and youth who work with
young people on the influence of gender on issues of sexual and
reproductive health, this resource pack provides a workshop curriculum
that introduces the concepts of sex and gender, explores how these
concepts are at play in the participants own lives and society in general,
allows participants to survey how these concepts have been transmitted and
learnt and gives them the opportunity to analyze how gender affects sexual
and reproductive health. This skills-building resource pack features
a number of participatory tools and games as part of its curriculum and
incorporates suggestions and feedback from field-tests in various regions
of the world enabling easy adaptation in different cultural
situations.
Also available at: http://www.ipas.org/publications/en/GENDERSEX_E01_en.pdf
9b. Gender or Sex: Training for
Trainers
(click title to download)
Ipas and Heath
& Development Networks (HDN)
These trainer notes were developed
for those who wish to train experienced facilitators to carry out
workshops based on the Gender or Sex curriculum described in the resource
9a above. While the notes include a workshop schedule, sample exercises
and introductory information, the sections also contain workshop tools and
handouts for trainees, a variety of ice-breaker and energizer exercises,
as well as different types of monitoring and evaluation forms, so that
trainers can choose those which they feel would work best during a
particular workshop.
Also available at:
10. Games for Adolescent Reproductive
Health
(click title to download)
Path
This
pack of 45 games and tools approaches the task of working with adolescents
on sexual health and reproductive rights in a fun and imaginative way. It
includes tips on getting started, guidance to creating one’s own games and
the research and theory behind using participatory games to tackle serious
subjects successfully.
Also available at: http://www.path.org/files/gamesbook.pdf
11. HIV Positive Young Women, ICW Vision Paper
1
(click title to download)
International
Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
This common advocacy
agenda, from a group of young HIV positive women from Eastern and Southern
Africa, highlights their priority concerns and outlines several demands
that include the need for continued access to education for HIV positive
girls (for example, by providing flexible learning times for those earning
a living or helping at home during normal school hours) and better access
to information for positive women and girls on safe pregnancy,
breastfeeding and abortion.
12. Tacking HIV/AIDS and Poverty in
Africa: Report of the Young Women and Leadership
Institute
(click title to download)
Association
for Women in Development (AWID)
Emerging from the 2004 session of
the AWID Young Women and Leadership Institute, this document is a report
on the organization and mobilization of 35 young women from Africa around
HIV/AIDS in the African context. The report outlines a number of
issues young people face in combating HIV/AIDS and provides tools for
action. Topics include HIV/AIDS and leadership; HIV/AIDS, human
rights and young women; economic justice and HIV/AIDS; building young
women’s response to HIV/AIDS; and challenges faced by young women in
organizations.
Also available at: http://www.awid.org/ywl/ywli/YWLI_report_feb2004.pdf
13. From Combat to Community: Women and Girls of Sierra
Leone
(click title to download)
Women Waging Peace
and the Policy Commission
In October 2000, for the first time in
its history, the United Nations Security Council acknowledged that women
have a key role in promoting international stability by passing Resolution
1325 on women, peace and security. It called on all parties to
ensure women’s participation in peace processes, from the prevention of
conflict to negotiations and post-war reconstruction. The Women
Waging Peace Policy Commission was established to examine peace processes
with a particular focus on the contributions of women. Drawing on
qualitative field-based research and quantitative survey data, “From
Combat to Community: Women and Girls of Sierra Leone” assesses how
consideration of gender issues can improve disarmament, demobilization,
and reintegration (DDR) processes and documents the contributions of women
in official and civil society-based reintegration programs.
Also
available at: http://www.huntalternatives.org/download/8_from_combat_to_community_women_and_girls_of_sierra_leone.pdf
14. Workshop on Asia-Pacific Young Women from Situations of
Armed Conflict
(click title to
download)
Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development’s
(APWLD)
Based on a workshop for women from the Asia-Pacific, this
excellent resource contains a report of the workshop and a resource kit
that emerged at the end of this event. The kit includes an advocacy brief,
developed by the participants as a tool for lobbying State and non-State
actors to address the issues specific to young women in situations of
armed conflict; country reports, authored by the participants on the
history and status of the conflict they live in and young women’s role
within that; and analytical frameworks or tools based on the
concepts of: identity-based politics, intersectionality, national and
international laws, patriarchy, nation State ideology, conflict resolution
and peace building. It also includes a bibliography of resources to assist
with locating further information for understanding these frameworks and
their application.
15. Gender and Sex – Sample of
Definitions
(click title to download)
Esplen, E.
and Jolly, S., BRIDGE (gender and development)
This short, but
useful, paper presents a range of definitions of gender and sex, which
reveal the diversity of the individual and institutional understandings
that exist of these much-debated terms.
Also available at: http://www.siyanda.org/Static/bridge_sexuality_definitions.htm
16. Peer to Peer: Creating Successful Peer Education
Programs
(click title to download)
International
Planned Parenthood Federation
This guide describes the steps
necessary for planning, identifying and training youth and youth
educators, and implementing, monitoring and evaluating a peer education
program. Additionally, it contains examples of succesful sexual and
reproductive health projects for youth from organizations that are active
in Latin American and the Caribbean.
17. Strength in Action: An Educator’s Guide to Preventing
Domestic Violence
(click title to
download)
Breakthrough
This guide provides essential
resources for teachers, facilitators, and leaders to conduct a systematic,
ongoing educational process designed to prevent domestic violence.
Designed for young people, the main objectives of the resource guide are:
to create a dialogue around culture, violence, vulnerability, and rights;
to create an understanding of domestic violence and of what can be done to
prevent it; and to encourage a better awareness of the role of gender and
of ideas of masculinity and femininity in the perpetuation of domestic
violence. It aims to encourage discussion about domestic violence
with both boys and girls through a participatory process, focuses on
experiential learning and is structured so that the facilitator guides the
participants through a process of experiences and activities, reflection
and discussion, often facilitated by supporting audio visual
material. It also encourages responsible action, problem solving,
and negotiating skills and aims to promote a gender sensitive approach to
relationships, family and society.
Also available
at: http://www.breakthrough.tv/teach.asp?id=5
18. Strategies and Tools for Working with
men and Boys to End Violence Against Girls, Boys, Women and Other
Men
(click title to download)
UNIFEM & Save
The Children
Developed at the end of a three-day workshop in 2004
on this topic, this report outlines practical tools for working with boys
and men to combat gender-based violence in the region, such as promoting
positive parenting, creating support groups for men and boys, addressing
the media, and challenging discriminatory laws. The workshop also
produced a South Asian work-plan on promoting partnership with men and
boys to end violence against girls, boys, women and other men.
Participants discussed the idea of starting up White Ribbon Campaigns—a
campaign which originated in Canada to engage men and boys in the struggle
to end men’s violence against women—in their own countries. They
also decided to incorporate the issue of men’s involvement in ending
gender-based violence into existing campaigns and programs, such as
International Women’s Day.
Also available at: http://www.siyanda.org/docs/Working_with_men_and_boys_1may06.pdf
19. Working with Men for Women’s
Rights
(click title to download)
Association for
Women in Development (AWID)
This piece describes strategies and
tools for involving men in development work that addresses gender
equality. It includes an overview on why involving men is important in
gender and development work and highlights successful programs that
address this issue.
Also available at: http://www.awid.org/publications/primers/waysmeans2.pdf
20. How to Advocate
(click title to
download)
League of Women Voters in the US
A short, quick
guide developed for the UN Commission on the Status of Women 2007 for
girls on how to advocate, including preparations, lobbying approaches and
strategies at local level.
21. Creating Participatory Radio with Children: A
Facilitator’s Guide
(click title to
download)
Community Media for Development/ CMFD
Productions
This step-by-step guide explores working with children
in a participatory process to create radio dramas that spark young
imaginations, explore social issues related to children, and express their
feelings and thoughts about the world around them. It contains
ice-breakers, a child-friendly primer on different kinds of radio drama
and a guide to developing radio programs that work well with reaching
children.
Also available from: Deborah Walter (deb@cmfd.org)
22. The Gender Bender
Game
(click title to download)
Soroptimist
International of Jakarta
This hands-on exercise where community
members identify the existing stereotypical male and female roles and
responsibilities; and then reassess and re-categorize them on the basis of
equity, considering what can be done by women/girls, or by men/boys
or by both. Both the health promotor (facilitator) and community members
participate in the learning process of identifying problems, finding
alternative, solutions and taking action to solve their own
problems.
Also available from: Julie Marsaban (jmstirli@indo.net.id)
23. Our Homes, Our Lives, Ourselves: A Fun Book to Help
Young People Get the Issues Right Concerning Women in Human Settlements
Development
(click title to
download)
United Nations Centre for Human Settlement
A
booklet intended to help teenagers get an idea what it is like to be a
woman. They do this by reading, thinking and investigating the role of
women in various ways. The booklet includes a board game ('The Game of
Life') and sections on finance, land, information, networking,
environment
Also available at: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/unchs97-en.pdf
24. All Different, All Equal
(click title
to download)
European Youth Campaign Against Racism, Xenophobia,
Anti-Semitism and Intolerance
The All Different, All Equal
education pack was developed as part of the European Youth Campaign
Against Racism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism and Intolerance. The material
was developed for audiences 14 years of age and older. The Education Pack
is a book intended for use in informal education settings but activities
may also be incorporated into the classroom setting. The book has two
major sections, the first dealing with the key concepts for intercultural
education and the second suggesting activities, methods and resources. The
materials are intended to be a learning tool for the reader, as well as a
resource for the organizing of activities and lessons. The text of the
pack is highly interactive, with many comments and questions offered to
the reader to cultivate a dynamic sense of dialogue.
Also available
at: http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/secondary/different-equal-en.pdf
25. DOMINO: All Different, All
Equal
(click title to download)
Council of
Europe
A peer group education curriculum for secondary and high
schools, Domino is aimed at youth and social workers, teachers and youth
leaders, as well as young people wishing to get involved in programs
that fight xenophobia, racism and intolerance. While there is some
theoretical background on peer group education in the different sections,
this manual also contains project descriptions, participatory methods,
quotes and stories from young people.
Also available at:
http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/secondary/domino-en.pdf
26. Are You a Humanizer?
(click title to
download)
Hague Appeal for Peace
This participatory checklist
has been conceived of as a tool that encourages the meaningful use of
vocabulary and language to foster good relationships between teachers and
students or between peer groups. It encourages students to self-monitor
their language, use words that contribute to building, enhancing,
promoting, sustaining, and maximizing peace both between and among
persons, groups, communities and nations.
Also available at: http://www.haguepeace.org/index.php?action=resources&subAction=morePeace
27. Disarming Your Mindset
(click title to
download)
Hague Appeal for Peace
Consisting of an activity
that uses scrambled words, a speaking circle and a game on the Universal
Declaration on Human Rights, this set of participatory tools aims to build
awareness about the basic needs and the right of the child, listen and
interact respectfully with each other for positive group dynamics and
build peace-related vocabulary for practicing in the classroom.
Also available at: http://www.haguepeace.org/index.php?action=resources&subAction=morePeace
28. Ending child marriage: A guide for global policy
action
(click title to download)
United Nations
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, with the support of UNFPA, IPPF and
Young Positives
This policy guide is part of a wider advocacy
strategy to raise awareness on child marriage and its effects on
communities. It is also part of the wider initiative on preventing HIV
infection, particularly among adolescent girls, and it aims to stimulate
decision-makers worldwide, in particular government policy-makers, donors,
and international development agencies, to take all necessary measures to
end this violation of rights. The publication outlines this global problem
and the reasons why child marriage persists, assesses how it contravenes
many international human rights standards, and then provides policy and
programmatic recommendations. It will assist organizations to accelerate
action and advocate for an end to this practice.
Also available at:
http://www.haguepeace.org/index.php?action=resources&subAction=morePeace
29. An Advocacy Guide for Feminists
(click
title to download)
Association for Women in Development
(AWID)
Advocacy is an umbrella term that describes various
strategies—including campaigning, lobbying, research/communication and
alliance building—that are used ton influence decision-makers and
policies. This guide discusses “feminist advocacy” and provides
strategic steps in infusing advocacy strategies with feminist
values. It provides advice on choosing an advocacy strategy,
building campaigns, and using “feminist advocacy” as an engine for
change.
Also available at: http://www.awid.org/publications/primers/waysmeans1.pdf
30. Gender Equality & Child Labor: A Participatory Tool
for Facilitators
(click title to
download)
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labor
(IPEC)
This participatory guide aims to help facilitators worldwide
to promote an understanding and awareness about child labor and gender
equality among young people, and adolescents in particular. Based on the
principle that young people have an important role to play in raising
awareness about issues of social justice and bringing about social change,
the guide promotes an understanding of how gender roles affect boys and
girls with regards to child labor, includes an overview of important
issues and incorporates nine participatory and imaginative activities that
address the impact of gender on child labor.
Also available at:
http://www.haguepeace.org/index.phpaction=resources&subAction=morePeace
31. Other web
resources
(click title to download)
These web sites are
useful in their entirety, with some downloadable elements. We did not
download all the information from these sites because in some cases the
sites were designed as interactive tools, while in others access to the
whole sites would be more valuable, rather than access to a few of their
contents.
Contact joey@womenink.org or sofia@iwtc.org for more information
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