September Newsletter: featuring resources on gender and development

• The SNV-WBCSD Alliance for Inclusive Business joins forces with the Inter-American Development Bank: The alliance aims to increase market-based solutions for the poor in Latin America. Read on
• Impact Alliance participates at the JICA Africa-Asia NGO Network Workshop: A learning event organized by the TICAD Civil Society Forum on 17 and 18 September in Nairobi, Kenya. Read on
• IA members attend Macro-economic Literacy Training: An event organised by Action Aid International Kenya from 20 to 24 August 2007. Read on
• Keystone Impact Assessment Survey: Keystone is contributing to a special issue of Alliance Magazine by surveying how CSOs and donors seek to measure and report on their impact. Read on
• Media Focus on Africa Foundation launches its 2007 Campaign: On 19 September, MFAF and UNDP launched another public capacity building campaign to promote good governance and leadership in Kenya. Read on
• A new link to resources on "Managing for Impact": The Electronic Regional Information and Learning Centre and other resources from SMIP are now more easily accessible via the Impact Alliance portal. Read on
• Capacity.org: The August 2007 edition focuses on Accountability. Read on
• Trace News September 2007: Leadership in Civil Society. Read on
• NGO Pulse, September 2007: An electronic newsletter of the Southern African NGO Network. Read on

• Civil Society and Aid Architecture: Changing Dynamics of Aid Policy, 17 to 19 October 2007: An international course organized by the International NGO Training and Research Centre. Read on
• Women Deliver: A Global Conference, 18 to 27 October 2007: An international conference on women and gender issues. Read on
• Promoting Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health and HIV&AIDS, 22 October to 9 November 2007: A training course offered by the Centre for African Family Studies in Nairobi, Kenya. Read on
• IAP2 Skills Symposium, 12 to 16 November 2007: An opportunity to gain new skills hosted by the International Association for Public Participation. Read on
• Certificate in Advocacy & Citizen Engagement, 12 to 30 November 2007: Offered by the Coady Institute in Canada. Read on
• 8th Training on Making Governance Gender Responsive, 12 to 19 November 2007: Organized by CAPWIP, this course is designed to enhance the participants' understanding of the link between gender and governance as well as increase their awareness of gender biases in governance. Read on
• 14th East African Resource Mobilization Workshop, 27 to 30 November 2007: An annual event organised by Resource Alliance in collaboration with the Kenya Association of Fundraising Professionals. Read on
• The Fourth Session of the Web for Development Conference, 28 to 30 November 2007: The theme of the conference is "Driving Economic and Social Development with the Internet". Read on
• DevNet/NZAID Conference, 29 and 30 November: Civil Society and Governance - implications for aid. Read on
• The Impact Alliance Events page includes more announcements on courses and conferences being organized by Impact Alliance members and other organizations. Read on

• The Communication and Social Change Award: Recognizes an individual or organisation for contributions to the theory and/or practice of communication for social change. Read on
• Call for Expressions of Interest from Senior Evaluation Consultants: Evaluation of UN Delivering as One Country Pilots. Read on
• nGOmobile: a text message-based competition: This competition wants to encourage NGOs to think more about how mobile technology could be applied in their work. The deadline for application is 14 December 2007. Read on
• Global Fund for Women Grants: Grants ranging from US$500 to US$20,000 for operating and program expenses are provided for women's groups. Read on

• Revisiting gender training: the making and remaking of gender knowledge - a global source book. This publication documents the experiences of practitioners and experts with respect to gender training and studies in gender and development in the South in particular. Read on
• Empowering Young Women to Lead Change: United Nations Population Fund leadership training manual for young women. Read on
• Human Rights-Based Programming: A two-in-one handbook on human rights-based programming with focus on gender from the United Nations Population Fund. Read on
• Gender in Monitoring and Evaluation in Rural Development: This toolkit developed by the World Bank Gender & Rural Development Group provides general guidelines for integrating gender into monitoring and evaluation. Read on
• Gender Tipsheets: These tipsheets provide essential information on how and why gender equality is a crucial dimension in all development activities. Read on
• Engaging Men in Gender Equality: Positive Strategies and Approaches. This report provides an overview and annotated bibliography from a broad range of innovative work being carried out in different parts of the world to engage men in the promotion of gender equality. Read on
• Gender equality and aid delivery: what has changed in development co-operation agencies since 1999? This report examines practices and institutional approaches to gender equality and women's empowerment in OECD DAC members' development co-operation agencies. Read on
• Gender in the Information Society: Emerging issues. This selection of papers makes available a body of information in the area of gender and information and communications technology for development (ICT4D). Read on
• Social Network Analysis as an Evaluation Tool: Experiences with International Development Aid Programmes. Read on
• Creating High-Impact Nonprofits: Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2007. Read on

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