DAWN (Development Alternatives for Women in the New Era) held an inter regional media workshop last February 10-13 at the Barbados Workers Union Labour College in Barbados, bringing together 11 representatives of international women's communications networks.
The women's communications network groups included: Isis International Santiago, Chile; South Pacific Commission/Pacific Women's Resource Bureau (SPC/PWRB)). New Caledonia; The Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (C AFR A), Trinidad and Tobago; Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA), Tanzania; Sistren Theatre Collective, Jamaica; Isis International Manila, Philippines; Women's Feature Service (WFS), India; International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC), USA; and Women and Development Unit (WAND), University of the West Indies, Barbados.
The purpose of the workshop was to identify effective methods of sharing DAWN's research analyses which challenge current models of development. These are models which the organization believes are responsible for the chain of borrowing, debt and poverty in countries of the South.
One of the major outcome of the workshop was the formation of Women's Media Network (WOMENET), comprising among others, those organizations which participated in the workshop. Other groups who have been invited to the workshop but were unable to attend have also been asked to join WOMENET. For a complete listing of member groups, refer to pages 6-7.
WOMENET has the capacity to distribute information across the world through its member networks which cover nearly all parts of the globe (See network map above). Through its wide network, it will help WOMENET has the capacity to distribute information across the world through its member networks which cover nearly all parts of the globe (See network map above). Through its wide network, it will help DAWN in distributing its research analyses to NGO women's organizations in mainstream media.
By sharing its analyses, DAWN hopes to sensitize policy makers to development alternatives which could lead to improved socioeconomic conditions in the South.
WOMENET members will contact each other monthly through facsimiles to share any relevant news and information that they have received during the month. In turn, this information will be shared through each member's networks.
Every six months, members will accomplish a survey form indicating how often they sent and received information through WOMENET and how they shared the information with their network.
WOMENET hopes to become an effective communications services group to Third World women who need access to information.
Members of WOMENET
Association of African Women
for Research and Development
(AAWORD)
Marie-Angelique Savanne
66 Bid de la Republique
B.P. 11007 CD Annexe
Dakar, Senegal
Assoc. des Professonnelles de
la Communication (APAC)
Fatoumata Sow
B.P. 4234, Dakar, Senegal
Fax: (221)210-042
Tel.: (221)210-815
Asia and Pacific Development
Centre
(APDC/Women's Programme)
Noeleen Heyzer
Rashidah Abdullah
Yezv Bee Yee
Pesiaran Duta, P.O. Box 12224
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Fax; (603) 255-0316
Tel.: (603) 254-8088
Caribbean Association for
Feminist Research and Action
(CAFRA)
Rowena Kalloo
P.O. Box 442, Tunapuna
Trinidad and Tobago
Fax:(809)663-6482
Tel.: (809)663-8670
Depthnews Women's
Features (DWF)
Estrella Maniquis
Press Foundation of Asia
P.O. Box 1843, Manila, Philippines
Fax: (632) 522-43-65
Tel.: (632) 59-14-78
FEMNET
Njoki Wainana
Eddah Gachukla
P.O. Box 54562, Nairobi, Kenya
Fax: (254-2) 330-737
Tel.: (254-2) 744-977
Telex: (254-2) 25130
FEMPRESS
Alternative Women's Media
Network
Adriana Santa Cruz
Viviana Erazo
Teresa Valdovinos
Casilla 16-637, Santiago 9, Chile
Fax: (562) 232-5000
Tel.: (562) 232-2577
Isis International Manila
Elizabeth Reyes-Martinez
P.O. Box 1837 Quezon City Main
Philippines 1100
Fax: (632) 99-05-07
Tel: (632) 99-32-92, 99-75-12
Isis Internacional Santiago
Isabel Duque
Casilla Postal 2067
Correo Central, Santiago, Chile
Fax: (562) 383-142;
Tel.: (562) 334-562, 382-219
Institute for Women's
Studies in the Arab World
(IWSA/BUC)
Randa Aboul-Hosn
Julinda Abu-Nasr
Beirut University College
P.O. Box 135053,
Beirut, Lebanon
Fax: (212) 870-2762 (New York)
Tel.: (166-1) 811-968 (Beirut)
International Women's
Tribune Center (IWTC)
Anne S. Walker
Vicki J. Semler
Alice Mastrangelo
777 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017 USA
Fax: (212) 661-2704
Tel: (212) 687-8633/4/5
SISTERLINK
YWCA of Australia
Penny Underwood
121 Queen's Parade, Clifton Hill
Victoria 3068 Australia
Fax: (613) 482-3661 (YWCA)
Fax: (613) 482-4937 (Penny's)
Tel.: (613) 482-3899 (YWCA
South Pacific Commission/
Pacific Women's Resource
Bureau (SPC/PWRB)
Jill Emberson
B.P. D5, Noumea Cedex
Noumea, New Caledonia
Fax: (687) 26-38-18
Tel: (687) 26-20-00
Tanzania Media Women's
Association (TAMWA)
Pili Mtambalike
Maria Shaba P.O. Box 6143
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Fax: (255) 512-9347
Tel.: (255) 29089, (255) 32181
Women and Development Unit, School of
Continuing Studies (WAND/DAWN)
Peggy Antrobus
Sandra Edwards
Nan Peacocke
Sheila Stuart
Kurlyne Alleyne
Rosina Wiltshire
Brenda Thomas
Rhuan Smith
University of the West Indies
Pinelands, St. Michael
Barbados
Fax: (809) 427-4397
Tel: (809) 436-6312
Women's Feature Service
Gouri Salvi
Anita Anand
49 Golf Links
New Delhi, India
Fax: (911-1) 462-6699
Tel.: (911-1)462-9886
SISTREN Theatre Collective
Hilary Nicholson
20 Kensington Crescent
Kingston 5, Jamaica
Fax: (809) 926-6990
Tel: (809) 929-2457, 929-6171
Joan Ross-Frankson
DAWN Consultant
21 Windsor Avenue
Kingston 5, Jamaica
Fax: (809) 926-6990
Tel: (809) 927-8701