This article promotes community organized gardens and their social benefits. Defines Eco-Feminism. Gives examples of successful community garden projects. Lists ways to start a garden in your neighbourhood.
Examines Canada's high rates of women's poverty and critiques federal government policies that have helped contribute to it. Reveals that almost one-quarter (24%) of Canadian women are raising children on their own and 14% of single older women are poor.
Promoting gender equality and empowering women (Millennium Development Goal 3) is not only an important goal in itself but also represents a powerful strategy for achieving other MDGs, especially MDG 5, which is to improve maternal health. This leaflet specifies what gender equality and women's empowerment mean, providing specific examples.
Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE)
Media Type:
Paper
Online
Author:
Molly McCracken
Kate Dykman
Francine Parent
Ivy Lopez
Describes barriers and opportunities for young women. Outlines community economic development approaches to preventing poverty among young women ages 15 to 24.
Includes bibliographical references. --- Review, Network Fall 2005: Young women work -- in their homes, in our community, in schools, with other youth and in the labour force. But young women who live in poverty continue to find themselves unable to make our economy or society work for them. Struggling to stay in school, working for low wages, and lacking childcare, young women face many challenges. At risk of a future living in poverty, and possibly raising another generation to do the same, young women want to work to build a better future and community. This participatory feminist research project sought to describe the barriers and opportunities for young women in the "new" economy, and outlines Community Economic Development approaches to preventing poverty among young women ages 15 to 24. The authors found that young women are ready and willing to participate in holistic programs that respect their cultural backgrounds, and build strong futures for themselves, their families and their communities.
Examines domestic consultative mechanisms for the development of international trade policy, and reviews efforts taken to integrate gender issues into international trade negotiations both nationally and internationally.
Includes bibliographical references.
Issued also in French under title: Commerce international : intégration des considerations liées à l'égalité entre les sexes dans le processus d'élaboration des politiques : initiatives et leçons.
Presents a 20-page workbook for analyzing legislation, policies, programs, and practices to determine whether they promote the social and economic inclusion of individuals, families, and communities, designed for use by policy makers, program managers, and community leaders who work in the context of social and economic exclusion, in both the public and non-profit sectors. Provides a method for analyzing both the conditions of exclusion and solutions that promote inclusion, as well as a way to begin a dialogue with excluded groups, raise awareness about how exclusion works. Also identifies steps to move towards more inclusive policies, programs, and practices. Describes elements of inclusion and exclusion along eight dimensions, and provides a workbook to guide analysis of policies and programs and to plan action to promote inclusion.
Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Womens' Health (ACEWH)
Centres of Excellence for Womens Health (CEWH)
Media Type:
Paper
Online
Author:
Ronald Colman
Discusses need for better and more accurate measures of progress, as the Gross National Product (GNP) does not distinguish economic activities that bring benefit from those that cause harm.
Chapter in "Made to Measure: Designing Research, Policy and Action Approaches to Eliminate Gender Inequity, National Symposium, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 3-6 1999."
