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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

 

Shelter / Abri / Abrigo

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

 

Gender / Gendre / Género

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.