LINKS
Networks / Les Réseaux / Las Red
La Red Mujer
y Hábitat de América Latina
http://www.redmujer.org.ar
La Red Mujer y Hábitat de América Latina adscribe a la Coalición Internacional
del Hábitat -HIC- en la cual tiene representación en el Consejo de la misma
desde el año 1988.
Asian Women
and Shelter Network
http://www.awasnet.org
The Asian Woman and Shelter site with information about the network, useful
links and importantly profiles and articles on the struggles encountered by
other housing and shelter organisations. See especially http://www.awasnet.org/gawpubl.htm
for full articles on related topics.
Caucus of Non-Governmental Organisations
http://www.earthsummit2002.org/wcaucus/csdngo.htm
The Caucus of Non-Government Organisations of the NGO Steering Committee to
the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) concerned with
gender & sustainable development issues site with useful caucus position papers
and resources. See especially http://www.earthsummit2002.org/wcaucus/Caucus%20Position%20Papers/wandsd.htm
for "Recommendations in Agenda 21 and Related Documents and Suggestions for
a Review of Implementation" Paper Prepared by the CSD NGO Women's Caucus for
Discussion at the UN Commission on Sustainable Development Intersessional Working
Group February 2000
Huarirou Commission on Women and Habitat, Women Homes and community Super
Coalition http://www.huairoucommission.org
or www.huairou.org
NGO Women's Caucus
www.csdngo.org/csdngo
Click 'women' under 'major groups'. See also www.uned_uk.org,
www.earthsummit2002.org and www.oneworld.org/uned_uk
Publications
/ Publications / Publicaciónes
http://www.amazon.com
and http://www.chapters.com
Two commercial sites with an excellent range of books for sale. Delivery available
around the world
www.lib.iupui.edu/erefs/carl.html
On-line library. Search 12,000 journals for free. For a printed version a fee
is necessary
www.idrc.ca/library/curbib/index_e.html
International Development Research Centre on-line library.
http://www.kabissa.org/newsletter.html
The Weekly Kabissa - Fahamu Newsletter. Sharing information: Rights and democracy,
Health, Education and social welfare, Women and gender, Refugees, Environment,
Media, Emergencies and crises and Development. Fundraising, Internet Links and
Resources, E-Newsletters, Networks and Mailing Lists, Jobs, Members Corner,
Free Small Ads. HIC WAS members can also submit their news to newsletter_submissions_l@kabissa.org
http://www.dhgender.org/
Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human
settlements
http://members.tripod.com/~self_build_women/index23.html
Case Studies of Women's Self Build Housing: Housing Women and Feminism
http://www.dhgender.org/english/habitpge7.htm
A summary of recommendations from the report on a UNCHS (Habitat) Seminar to
Promote the Participation of Women in all Phases of the Global Strategy for
Shelter to the Year 2000
http://www.unescap.org/huset/m_land/chapter10.htm
Selected initiatives on access to land for the urban poor
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/ent/papers/favclim.htm
Creating a favorable climate and conditions for cooperative development in Central
and Eastern Europe
www.newspaper.com
, www.home.about.com/medianews/media/index.html
, www.northernlight.com/news.html
and www.excite.com/search_forms/news
Links to international newspapers.
Internet
KABISSA - SPACE
FOR CHANGE IN AFRICA
http://www.kabissa.org/cgi-bin/webhome/signup.cgi
Sign up your organisation for Kabissa Membership and get standard Internet accounts
with web space and mailboxes, all for free! Even if you do not need Internet
accounts, sign up today to get a listing in our Member Directory. Mailing lists
and low-cost domain hosting also available.
Technology Grant News
http://www.technologygrantnews.com
For nonprofits, social service providers,towns & cities and schools & universities.
The latest grant announcements by tech funders for various initiatives -- technology
and non-technology related. Grants here by technology funders for childcare
provider initiatives, teaching the math and science of technology, stepping
stones to technology for children with disabilities, digital divide, women and
economic development, literacy, environment, conservation, partnership funding
etc.
http://tz.orientation.com/
A search engine by region. Available for Africa and for Tanzania. Has a section
on social services including development news, social statistics and non-profit
sector services.
www.searchenginewatch.com
and www.notess.com/search
Two sites with up to date information on the best search engines and tips on
how to effectively search the internet
Forum: Habitat
in Developing Countries
http://obelix.polito.it/forum/welcome.htm
An internet resource aimed at providing information to researchers and professionals
working for the improvement of the built environment in developing countries,
and at facilitating communications among them. Contains a fantastic link section
with links to all sorts of useful resources, a links to housing projects globally,
the opportunity to join a mailing list, an on-line newsletter and the ability
to collaborate with other professions working in housing and development globally.
Urban 21
http://www.urban21.de
A summary of recommendations from the report on a UNCHS (Habitat) Seminar to
Promote the Participation of Women in all Phases of the Global Strategy for
Shelter to the Year 2000
United Nations
Women Watch
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
and http://www.dhgender.org/english/habitpge7.htm
A site stocked full of the latest UN statistics and indicators on a wide range
of women's issues worldwide, information on the UN's work as related to women,
UN conferences and links to partner's websites.
Gender and Equality at CIDA
http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/equality
A site dedicated to information on the Canadian International Development Agency's
policies on Gender Equity.
Latin
America in Movement
http://alainet.org/
This website has a women's program page in
english and spanish.
Flame
http://www.flame.org/
Flame is a network of African sisters online
committed to strengthening the capacity of women through the use of ICTs to
lobby, advocate and participate in the Beijing + 5 process regionally and globally.
European
Women in Action
www.iiav.nl/european-womenaction-2000
European Women in Action for 2000 website
will provide European women's organizations with a platform for strategizing
around the Beijing Platform of Action review process. The website is hosted
and managed by the International Archives of the Women's Movement.
WIDE
www.wide.org
The WIDE Women's Initiative seeks to increase
the visibility and participation of women from developing countries in technical
(and other) cooperation among developing countries.
Gender
on the Agenda
www.undp.org/unifem/beijing+5/genderonagenda
Gender on the Agenda: To assist NGOs participating
in the Beijing + 5 review process, the United Nations Development Fund for Women
(UNIFEM) and the United Nations NonGovernmental Liaison Service (UNNGLS) have
put together an excellent online publication with key information on how five-year
reviews are organized as inter-governmental assessment processes, the various
mechanisms and preparatory processes that may lead to a five-year review, and
ideas on how both nongovernmental and governmental participants may enhance
their participation.
Women,
Ink.
www.womenink.org
This is the website for Women, Ink., which
produces a regular catalogue on resources relating to issues of women and development.
Use this website to see their on-line catagolue. They also list publishing companies
that donate free or reduced cost resources to organizations in the South.
Lola
press
www.chasque.apc.org/lola
At this website you can access Lola press
on the internet. Lola is a magazine which focusses on women and development
issues. It is published in both English and Spanish.
www.unifem.undp.org/resour.htm
Targets and Indicators: Selections from Progress
of the World's Women can be found on the UNIFEM internet site and is available
for download as a PDF file.
Development / Development / Desarrollo
International
Institute of Sustainable Development
http://www.iisdl.iisd.ca
http://www.sustainable_development.org
A resource for those working in or simply interested in issues of international
sustainable development
United Nations AC
http://www.unac.org
Best Practices
http://www.bestpractices.org/
International
Network for Development Information Exchange
http://www.indix.org
Cooperatives / Cooperatives / Cooperativas
Homeless International
http://www.homeless-international.org/
and www.theinclusivecity.org
SPARC (India)
www.dialogue.org.za/sparc
People's Dialogue
www.dialogue.org.za
Groundswell
www.oneworld.org/groundswell
Cooperative
Housing Federation of Canada
http://www.chfc.ca
CHF Canada exists to unite, represent, and serve the co-op housing community
across Canada.
Cooperative Housing Foundation (USA)
http://www.chfhq.org/
The ICA is an international non-governmental organisation which unites, represents
and serves co-operatives worldwide. The ICA International Co-operative Web Site
contains information on the International Co-operative Alliance, its aims and
activities and information on the co-operative movement in different economic
sectors: agriculture, banking, credit, consumer, energy, fisheries, housing,
insurance, workers, tourism and health care, and from all continents as well
as links to other sites and issues of interest to co-operators.
National Association of Housing Cooperatives
http://www.coop.org/ica/index.html
and http://www.coophousing.org/
Welcome to the website of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives,
your source for information on housing cooperatives.