Tools, Tips and Practical Help

 If you needed some tips and information on how to deal with HIV and sex and sexualities, then this publication will be useful to you. The online publication includes information on safer sex, disclosure, birth control and HIV as well as resources. Use it yourself, print it out and pass it on to women you know, or use it as a reference guide for your work with HIV positive women. 

The gender inequality among developers and supporters of free software is stunning. Less than 2% of us are women, according to studies conducted for the European Commission. Why? The evidence says we’re driving them away. There are even some pretty good published guidelines on how not to drive them away. What’s missing is a practical implementation strategy: here Terry Hancock presents ten relatively simple changes in how you run your project, to make it more attractive to would-be contributors—especially women.

This BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack on CD provides key materials on gender-sensitive budgets as a tool for advancing gender equality. Sharing accessible explanations of key concepts, geographically and context diverse case studies, practical tools, guidelines, training materials, popular education materials, web resources and networking contacts, supports progress towards achieving the ultimate goal of the formulation of a gender-sensitive budget. If you are too busy implementing, designing and managing to have time to read a book, then this Pack can offer you concise, accessible information. We hope these resources will further encourage collaboration and networking. As this collection shows, there is no one way of "doing" gender budget work. The context for the work is everything. Whilst we have included examples of tools, guidelines, and training materials, we want to stress that there is no magic formula and any materials need to be adapted for the context.

This is an easy-to-read booklet that: helps you understand the Orders, what they are and how they work; helps you to think more clearly and remember what you have to do; and
helps you gain and keep the courage to use the Orders to stop the violence. The booklet also explains the difference between a Protection Order and a Peace Order. The booklet is also useful for those trying to assist an abused person - it has some information on how to get a Protection Order for someone else too.

This resource documents how and under what circumstances a person could apply for a Protection Order under the Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998. It includes steps to follow, as well as downloadable documents for your application.  It's useful for those wanting to apply for a protection order, and it might help to make sure you have all the right documentation with you when you go to the magistrates court to apply.

ARTICLE 19 has published a checklist designed for civil society organisations who wish to conduct analyses of the implementation status of the African Union's Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression in Africa. The checklist intends to allow civil society organisations working on issues relating to freedom of expression and access to information to establish the key obstacles to the fulfilment and protection of freedom of expression. According to the publishers, the checklist interprets each article of the Declaration in a comprehensive manner, providing details on how freedom of expression should be fulfilled and provided for. The checklist can be used for researching and writing "shadow reports" to be submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights.

This toolkit originally evolved out of a two-year research project on stigma conducted in Zambia, Tanzania, and Ethiopia and was originally published in 2003. The toolkit contains over 100 participatory exercises which can be adapted to fit different groups and contexts. There are different sets of pictures which can help to identify stigma, discuss the rights of positive people and help to stimulate discussions around gender and sexuality and morality issues linked to stigma.

The toolkit was developed with the involvement of staff from more than 50 non-governmental (NGOs) from these countries. They shared stories and their experiences, developed exercises, and tested some of the tools. It is a collaborative work of International HIV/AIDS Alliance, International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), Academy for Educational Development (AED), and PACT Tanzania.

This revised edition (2007) builds on the original toolkit and includes experience of the Alliance's Regional Stigma Training Project. New modules now address stigma as it relates to ARV treatment, children, youth, and men who have sex with men.

This package was produced as part of the training component of UNESCO's Media Development Project in Mozambique. The overall objective of the UNESCO project is to strengthen the human and technical capacity of the media - especially the independent and private media - in Mozambique. This is part of the process of enhancing democracy, good governance and human rights in the country while promoting professionalism and editorial independence. The training package therefore addresses only one aspect of this process. Its overall objective is to ensure the furtherance of more gender sensitive media reporting at a time of great social change in Mozambique and other parts of southern Africa.

This resource provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks. It focuses primarily on health, particularly reproductive health; on HIV/AIDS; and on violence against women as it relates to health services.

Gender responsive budgeting (GRB) is budgeting responsive budgeting (GRB) is budgeting that integrates a gender perspective and tracks how budgets respond to gender equality and women's rights requirements. This entails examining not only actual allocations and revenue raising measures but also budgeting systems, budgeting processes and looking at the roles of the various actors throughout the process. It also entails investing in making available mechanisms, guidelines, data and indicators that enable gender equality advocates to track progress, benefit incidence and show how supposedly gender neutral budgets impact women.