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DIRECTORIES OF ORGANIZATIONS

International Directory of Women's Political Leadership 1995. Women's Organizations and Women Leaders.

Database of 1,217 Central American Organizations. A project of Fundación Arias para la Paz and Progreso Humano.

Global List of Women's Organizations

The Feminist Majority Foundation. Directory of women's organizations in the United States.

Council of Women World Leaders. Promotes good governance and enhance the experience of democracy globally by increasing the number, effectiveness, and visibility of women who lead at the highest levels in their countries.

ILO Gender Equality Tool. This website is managed by the Bureau for Gender Equality, which is part of the Geneva-based Secretariat of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance: Gender and Political Pariticipation. International IDEA's objective is to promote and advance sustainable democracy and to improve and consolidate electoral processes world-wide.



United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). INSTRAW has launched a new section on its website with the objective of opening a space for the analysis of the interrelationship between gender, governance and women.

FUNDING SOURCES

Fundación Acceso: Directory of International Donors that support civil society organizations in Guatemala.

The Foundation Center. If you are looking for grants or for contact information for funding sources, this is an authoritative source on foundation and corporate giving. The center's extensive Web site features the User-Friendly Guide to Funding Research and Resources as well as information about workshops on proposal writing and grant research.

The Global Fund for Women

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Charles Steward Mott Foundation

Ford Foundation

Andrew Mellon Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation

The Pew Charitable Trusts

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

BILANCE

Carnegie Corporation

Global Fund for Women

Swiss Association for International Cooperation

Humanist Institute for Development Co-operation (HIVOS)

Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO)

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF)

International Development Exchange (IDEX)/b>

International Women's Development Agency (IWDA)

International Women's Health Coalition

Mama Cash

MATCH International Centre

Netherlands Organisation for International Development Cooperation (NOVIB)

Oxfam America

Solidaridad

Soroptomists International of the Americas

The Sister Fund

World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Work of Women

Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)

Global Fund for Women: Women´s Fundraising Handbook

Women Dialogue Foundation

Mujeres Autoras Actoras de Paz -MAAP

UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women

Women's Justice Center



TRAINING PROGRAMS

Programa Regional de Formación de Género y Políticas Públicas

The Women's Campaign School at Yale University

Fundación Acceso. A private, non-profit technical assistance organization active throughout Latin America, and based in San José, Costa Rica. Provides training, technical assistance and institution-building services for local, national, regional and international organizations.

The Center for Women's Global Leadership of Rutgers University

A Leadership Institute for Latin American Women. "Emerging Leaders in Latin America" is a Radcliffe College summer institute in leadership training and development for recent graduates of Latin American universities with two to seven years of work experience, conducted by Radcliffe and Harvard faculty.

The Fundraising School of Indiana University

Women and Politics Institute. American University

Regional Training Program on Gender and Public Policies

Puntos de Encuentro

PROCURA

International Women´s Democracy Center Established to strengthen women's global leadership through training, education, networking and research in all facets of democracy with a particular focus on increasing the participation of women in policy, politics and decision-making within their own governments.

Foro de Mujeres Contra la Corrupción Pretende ser un esfuerzo continuo para agrupar a todas las mujeres que quieran hacer algo para enfrentar la corrupción con una perspectiva de género.





NEWS AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE

Gender Related Electronic Forums. An annotated, award-winning listing of publicly-accessible electronic forums (also known as "e-mail lists") related to women or to women-focused gender issues.

ISIS International. Service of communication and information for women.

Mujeres Latinoamericanas en Cifras. A diagnostic of women's situation in various thematic areas. The research was conducted by the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in 19 countries of the region.

Servicio de Noticias de la Mujer. A bilingual Spanish/English site that specializes in reporting on women and gender issues in Latin America. The site includes a searchable database (currently only in Spanish) of more than 360 news articles published in Latin America in the past two years.

Mujeres en Red. Information on women's activities in Latin America and a place to exchange information.

Tertulia Revista Feminista. A monthly news magazine on women's issues in Spanish.

Agencia Latinoamericana de Información: Area Mujer

Las Capullanas. Feminist magazine from Peru.

International Review of Women and Leadership. An applied interdisciplinary journal which considers women and leadership in its broadest context.

Q Web Sweden Newtork. A global communication network for the exchange of knowledge, experience and ideas on women's health and gender issues.

Women World Leaders 1945-2001 Know all about contemporary women political leaders.

Women in Decision Making in Europe

Librería de Mujeres Centro de documentación sobre la Mujer.

Gender Equality in the World of Work Electronic newsletter produced three times yearly by the Bureau for Gender Equality, based at the secretariat of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Gender at Work Knowledge network for gender equality and institutional change.

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