UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women & UNV Regional Joint Programme for Asia and the Pacific

The Open Foru for CSO Development Effectiveness, a global fully participatory space run by and for civil society organizations worldwide, released the attached implementation and advocacy toolkits. Since we are all working with civil society in one way or another I thought it would be useful to share these toolkits with you, so you could share them with your partner organizations.

More on the Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness can be found via: http://www.cso-effectiveness.org

Best regards,
Raymond Brandes
Programme Specialist

Partners for Prevention: Working to Prevent Gender-based Violence
UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women & UNV Regional Joint Programme for Asia and the Pacific
3rd Floor, UN Service Building Rajadamnern Nok Avenue Bangkok 10200 Thailand
Tel: +66 2 304 9100 extension 2782 / Mob: +66 85 352 1680 www.partners4prevention.org   Email:divya.gupta@one.un.org

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 The Media Foundation

Inviting Nominations for the Chameli Devi Jain Award 2011-12

The Media Foundation is pleased to invite nominations for its annual Chameli Devi Jain Awards for an Outstanding Woman Mediaperson for 2011-12.

Journalists in the print, broadcast and current affairs documentary film media are eligible, including photographers, cartoonists and newspaper designers. Names and addresses of sponsors or references should be clearly mentioned with email and phone numbers.

THE CRITERIA FOR SELECTION will be excellence, analytical skill, social concern, insights, style, innovation, courage and compassion. Other things being equal, preference will be given to small town/rural and Indian language journalists. The entries will be evaluated by an independent panel of jurists whose verdict shall be final.

Nominations should include a bio-data (with complete postal address, telephone, fax numbers and email address, for facility of communication), together with a selection of the best work done during 2010-11 in the form of three or four clippings/tapes/CDs. These should be accompanied by a brief appreciation of why the candidate is especially deserving of recognition.

Nominations addressed to B.G.Verghese, C-11 Dewan Shree Apartments, 30 Ferozshah Road, New Delhi -110001 should be received not later than February 15, 2012. The Award will be announced some days before the Award is presented at the India International Centre Multipurpose Hall in Delhi on Friday, March 16, 2012.

B.G.Verghese
Coordinator, Chameli Devi Jain Award
Tel: 011-2335 5099; 98189 16923

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 Lawyers Collective and the National Commission for Women (NCW)

It gives us great pleasure to invite you for the release of the "Staying Alive: Fifth Monitoring and Evaluation Report of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act(PWDVA)" on 30th January 2012 at Russian Center,24 Ferozeshah Road, New Delhi at 2 p.m.

Lawyers Collective in collaboration with the National Commission for Women(NCW)is releasing its report for the fifth consecutive year. The report has been jointly prepared by International Center for Research on Women(ICRW) and has been prepared with the generous support of UN Women.

The fifth M&E Report documents the availability of infrastructure under the PWDVA and evaluates the functioning of the Act by analyzing the orders passed. In this report ICRW documented the attitudes, knowledge and practice of stakeholders under the Act over a period of three years, from 2008 to 2011.

We thank you for being our partners in this journey over the last five years.

Contact:
Philarisa S. Nongpiur
Research and Advocacy Officer
Lawyers Collective Women's Rights Initiative
63/2 Masjid Road First Floor Bhogal Jangpura New Delhi 110014
Phone No. 91-11-46805555     Fax No. 91-11-24373993

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 Stree Samya

Stree Samya is delighted to announce the release of its following titles:

Mapping the Field: Gender Relations in Contemporary India, vol 2, together with its companion volume 1 Published January 2012 Gender Studies/History/Sociology/Anthropology Mapping the Field: Gender Relations in Contemporary India, vol 2 Nirmala Banerjee, Samita Sen and Nandita Dhawan, eds

demy octavo pb 374pp ISBN 93-81345-007/978-93-8145-00-9 Rs 475

Mapping the Field: Gender Relations in Contemporary India, vol 2, together with its companion volume 1, is the first reader of the four prepared for students of women's studies, particularly for Masters' level courses in women's studies, and more generally across undergraduate and certificate courses as the concept of 'gender' has been introduced at all levels of curricula. The reader reflects many of the concerns that have come up in women's studies across two decades. The second volume traces the trajectory of more recent theoretical shifts in the field, while the first volume focuses on some of the major economic and social debates in women's studies.

Contributors: Sumi Krishna, Archana Parashar, Flavia Agnes, Kumkum Sangari, Janaki Nair, Anupama Rao, and Nivedita Menon.

Editors Nirmala Banerjee retired as professor of economics, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta; Samita Sen is director, and Nandita Dhawan is research coordinator, both of the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University. Stree: 16 Southern Ave, Kolkata 700 026 stree@vsnl.com/ streesamya@gmail.com www..stree-samyabooks.com 033 2466 0812 / 033 6519 5737

IPDA : 35A/1 Shahpur Jat,New Delhi, 110049; tel: 011 2649 2040/1448; email:ipd.alternatives@gmail.com online: www.scholarswithoutborders.in www.flipkart.com email yugal@ flipkart.com

Fluid Bonds: Views on Gender and Water

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Foreword by Joni Seager, Professor and Chair of Global Studies, Bentley University, Boston ' Getting gender to 'count' . . . has long been a core feminist contribution to the larger goal, exemplified in Fluid Bonds, of making and keeping gender relations visible and present and in establishing its undeniable salience'.~ Joni Seager

Contributors: Margaret Alston ? Tran Truan Anh ? Priyodorshi Banerjee ? Rutgerd Boelens ? Annie Bolitho ? S. Chandrasekhar ? Julie Davidson ? Marna de Lange ? Jane Dowling ? Barbara Earth? Deb Foskey ? Heather Goodall ? Lesley Head ? Richard Howitt ? Diana James ? Kshep Khumbane ? Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt ? Fiona Miller ? Michelle Mofatt ? Ndileka Mohapi ? Pat Muir ? Umesh Pandey ? Namika Raby ?Anil C. Shah ? Elaine Stratford ? Sandra Suchet-Pearson ? Farhana Sultana ? Robin Tennant-Wood ? Bhavana Upadhyay ? Barbara van Koppen ?Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann ? Margreet Zwarteveen

demy octavo hb 512 pp ISBN 81-85604-92-70-3/978-81-85604-70-1 Rs 800.00

A path-breaking collection revealing gendered realities of poverty and water in the case studies that illustrate various issues: of rights, of access, of health and sanitation, of impacts of faulty policies, exclusion from the sustainability agenda. The book is divided into four parts: (i) Global Discourses; (ii) Gendered Waters in Times and Places; (iii) Gendered Cultures and Economies of Water, and (iv) Representations and Agency.

Editor Kuntala Lahiri Dutt is research fellow Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.

Stree: 16 Southern Ave, Kolkata 700 026 stree@vsnl.com/ streesamya@gmail.com www..stree-samyabooks.com 033 2466 0812 / 033 6519 5737 IPDA : 35A/1 Shahpur Jat,New Delhi, 110049; tel: 011 2649 2040/1448; email:ipd.alternatives@gmail.com online: www.scholarswithoutborders.in www.flipkart.com email yugal@ flipkart.com

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 Centre for Policy Analysis

Agenda for the Women's Conference on Kashmir

The Centre for Policy Analysis has been working in Kashmir for the past one year to bridge the widening gap between Srinagar and New Delhi. Ours has been a political/civil society effort that has succeeded in building trust to a point where we first formed a political Committee on Kashmir with several political parties in New Delhi.

More recently we have formed a Civil Society Working Group of academics, journalists, activists, and others from both Jammu and Kashmir and New Delhi to monitor developments and suggest action. For full details about our Kashmir program please visit our website www.cpadelhi.org

In the course of our work we have realized that women and youth are amongst the most traumatized sections of society in Kashmir. We have engaged with both sections and have now decided to adopt a more specific course of action. On February 11 we are planning to hold a closed door meeting between select women to work out a plan of action to address the trauma and problems of the Kashmiri women, and set up a small committee for the implementation of the same. It is imperative for the women organizations working in Delhi and other parts of India to come on a common platform with the Kashmiri women who are paying a heavy price for the decades old conflict, both physically and mentally.

Date: 11th February, 2012
Venue: N 24A, First Floor, Green Park Extension,
New Delhi - 110016
Time: 10:00 am to 5:30 pm
cpa.cpadel@gmail.com

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 The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library

The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, 30 January 2012 in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building on 'Emptied of all love: Gandhiji on 30th January 1948' by
Prof. Tridip Suhrud, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gujarat

Abstract: Manubehn Gandhi records Gandhiji's desire to meet a violent death at the hands of an assassin and face the bullets in their path of hate with name of Rama on his lips. This lecture is an attempt to understand the nature of Gandhiji's longing, his desire to provide a final, irrevocable proof of his ahimsa and brahmacharya. It is an exploration of his constant desire to feel the presence of God as Truth, as Satya Narayan.

Speaker: Prof. Tridip Suhrud works on the social and intellectual history of Gujarat and the Gandhian tradition. He has translated the works of Ashis Nandy and Ganesh Devy into Gujarti and novelist Suresh Joshi into English. Some of his recent publications are: Harilal Gandhi: A Life , C B Dalal, Edited and Translated from Gujarati by Tridip Suhrud; My Life Is My Message, (A Biography of Mahatma Gandhi in Four Volumes), Narayan Desai, translated from Gujarati by Tridip Suhrud; M. K. Gandhi's Hind Swaraj: A Two language Critical Edition, (with Suresh Sharma); Writing Life: Three Gujarati Thinkers, Hind Swaraj Vishe, and An Autobiography Or The Story of My Experiments with Truth: A Table of Concordance At present he is working on Gandhi's relationship with the society and culture of Gujarat and Gujarat's relationship with him and an English translation of Govardhanram Tripathi's four part novel Sarsavatichandra.

All are welcome. Those wishing to have their names added to the e-mail list may please e-mail us at: nmmldirector@gmail.com

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 Jamia Millia Islamia (Academy of International Studies) and the Tampadipa Institute, Yangon

It gives me great pleasure pleasure to invite your participation in the International Conference on "Myanmar: Bridging South and Southeast Asia" being held in New Delhi on 30-31 January 2012. This Conference is being organised as a collaboration between Jamia Millia Islamia (Academy of International Studies) and the Tampadipa Institute, Yangon with the support of the Euro Burma Office, Brussels.

We are expecting the participation of several senior political party representatives from Myanmar in this Conference, including Members of Parliament elected in the November 2010 elections. In addition, heads of prominent think-tanks from Yangon and other cities, social and women's issues activists, and civil society leaders from Myanmar will be with us in Delhi on 30-31 January 2012.

The Conference discussions will focus on the following themes : (

  1. Myanmar After the 2010 Elections
  2. Economic Opportunities and Challenges in Myanmar
  3. Between South and Southeast Asia
  4. Moving Forward : A Summary of Recommendations

I am enclosing the Concept Note for the Conference, draft agenda and the list of particpants from Burma/Myanmar .

Contact:
Dr Achan Mungleng Coordinator Euro Burma South Asia Office
On behalf of Veena Sikri, Professor, Ford Foundation Chair, Bangladesh Studies Programme, Jamia Millia Islamia) & Dr Khin Zaw Win Director, Tampadipa Institute, Yangon india@euro-burma.be

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