4.4   Gender-Related Materials in Other Development Sectors

Poverty and Economic Development

ILO (International Labour Organisation), “Guidelines for the Integration of Gender Issues into the Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of ILO Programmes and Projects” (1995). Available online at http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/program/eval/guides/gender.

OECD DAC (Development Assistance Committee), “Poverty-Environment-Gender Linkages,” OECD DAC Journal 2, No.4 (2001). Available online at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/47/46/1960506.pdf.

UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation), A Path Out of Poverty: Developing Rural and Women Entrepreneurship (2003). Available online at http://www.unido.org/file-storage/download/?file%5fid=11092.


Water and Sanitation

UNDP and Gender and Water Alliance, Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management: A Practical Journal to Sustainability—A Resource Guide. Available online at http://www.undp.org/water/genderguide/index.html.

UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund), “Gender Mainstreaming in Water and Sanitation.” Available online at http://www.unicef.org/wes/index_main_streaming.html.

Women’s Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO), Untapped Connections: Gender, Water and Poverty (2003). Available online at http://www.wedo.org/sus_dev/untapped1.htm.

World Bank, Toolkit on Gender in Water and Sanitation, Working Paper 21387 (1996). Available online at http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDS_IBank_Servlet?pcont=details&eid=000094946_00121301483084.


Health and Education

UN DESA Division for the Advancement of Women, Gender, Education and Development. Can be ordered at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/public.

UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population Activities), “Promoting Gender Equity.” Available online at http://www.unfpa.org/issues/briefs/gender.htm.

World Bank, “Energy, Health and Gender: Thinking Differently about What We Do,” Keynote Speech by Mieko Nishimizu, Vice President, South Asian Region, World Bank, at the Regional Workshop on Household Energy, Indoor Air Pollution and Health, May 9, 2002, New Delhi. Available online at http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/sar/sa.nsf/0/82F0866FD87F602965256BCF00438DF6?OpenDocument.


Agriculture and Food Security

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation), Socio-economic and Gender Analysis Programme, http://www.fao.org/Gender/gender.htm.

IDRC (International Development Research Centre), links to gender-related research and guidelines on natural resource management and food production, http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-29737-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html.

IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development), Gender Training Materials, http://www.ifad.org/gender/pub/index.htm.

WFP (World Food Programme), http://www.wfp.org/index.asp?section=1.


Environment and Climate Change

BRIDGE, “Environmental Policy,” Development and Gender in Brief, Issue 1. Available online at http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/dgb1.html.

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation), Gender and Forestry, http://www.fao.org/Gender/gender.htm.

Parikh, Jyoti, and Denton, Fatma, Is the Gender Dimension of the Climate Change Debate Forgotten? (2002). Available online at http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/cop8_gender.pdf.

Skutsch, Margaret, and Wamukonya, Njeri, Is there a Gender Angle to the Climate Change Negotiations? (2001). Available online http://www.energia.org/pubs/papers/wamukonya_skutsch.pdf.

UN Women Watch, Women’s Role in Forestry and Soil Conservation. Available online at http://www.un.org/womenwatch/asp/user/list.asp?ParentID=10258.

UNDP, Pro-Poor, Gender and Environment Sensitive Budgets Project, http://www.internationalbudget.org/cdrom/organisations/UNDPBudgets.htm.

Venkateswaran, Sandhya, Environment, Development and the Gender Gap (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1995).