Unit 6: Staff and agencies working on gender issues
Selected agencies working on gender issues and the labour market
Others
This section includes agencies working in the region on gender and development issues.
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Asian and Pacific Development Centre (APDC)
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Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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The ADB has adopted improving the status of women as one of its strategic objectives. It adopted a policy paper on the role of women in development in 1995. Among the resources on gender available in the ADB are a sourcebook on gender and development in Asia, a library collection of books, articles and videos on various GAD-related issues, and a series of WID country papers for the region. |
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Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
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Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)
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AWARE conducts research on issues of concern to women, for wide dissemination. It also provides training programmes for women in computer literacy and basic literacy. It organises talks, workshops and courses on topics of interest to women and produces publications, including the bi-annual journal Awareness.
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Centre for Environment, Gender and Development (ENGENDER) Pte Ltd
Website: http://www.engender.org.sg |
ENGENDER, founded in 1992, is an independent organisation with a non-profit philosophy, working in Asia, through a widespread regional network of partner organisations and programme associates. Its goal is to engender sustainable communities in a region where livelihoods, health and habitats have been critically affected by rapid developmental changes.
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Centre for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)
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CAPWIP is a regional NGO currently based in the Philippines. Its vision of politics that is both transformed and transformational aims to create a critical mass of competent, committed and effective women politicians in elective and appointive positions in government, and to develop a responsible women citizenry. Its primary programs focus on organising and networking, training, research and publications and communications (primarily, establishing the CAPWIP website). CAPWIP operates through a network of national affiliates clustered into 5 subregional groupings: Central Asia, East Asia, Pacific, Southeast Asia and South Asia. Its publications include proceedings of various congresses of women in Politics and the CAPWIP Bulletin, a bi-annual newsletter. |
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Coalition against Trafficking in Women-Asia (CATW)
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The CATW is an international feminist organization fighting the global sexual exploitation of women. A major activity of CATW is to lobby UN bodies for appropriate policies. It has Consultative Status II with UN ECOSOC. It has developed a draft Convention Against All Forms of Sexual Exploitation, intended to update the 1949 Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and reflect the new realities of migration and the ethnic, communal, religious and political conflicts it often entails for women. Other major activities of CATW include referral, advocacy, seminars, research, publications and training. |
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ISIS International
isis@mnl.sequel.net |
Founded in 1974, Isis is an organisation whose mission is to provide women's groups worldwide with opportunities to communicate, share information, experiences, ideas and analysis, network and forge links. Isis-International reaches out to over 50,000 individuals in 150 countries. After years of operating from Rome, in 1991 it relocated its office to Manila.
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Southeast Asia Gender Equity Program (SEAGEP), CIDA
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SEAGEP, a project of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), supports activities that raise awareness of gender equity issues, advance gender responsive development, and assist Southeast Asia women in the advancement of the Beijing Platform for Action. Its purpose is to strengthen the capacity of Southeast Asian women’s organisations, governments, networks and institutions, working regionally, to implement the Beijing Platform for Action.
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