rural development
Binhi Agricultural Resource Foundation
P.O. Box SM-132, Manila, Philippines.
A non-governmental resource center, Binhi promotes and assists peasant organizations and self-reliant, ecological farming. It has assisted the development of many small, functional rural women's groups with a wide range of organizational, educational and socio-economic activities. Binhi emphasizes the need to get at the root causes of the poverty and exploitation of peasants, the need to organize, and the need to improve traditional agriculture and appropriate grassroot technologies to make it competitive with so-called modern agriculture. A number of publications are available on these issues.
Center for Women Resources (CWR)
Room 403 FMSG Building, New York Street, corner E. Rodriguez Sr. Boulevard, Quezon City, Philippines.
Founded in 1981, CWR is a non-governmental resource center for women and women's groups in the Philippines. It assists women peasants and workers, feminist groups and others concerned with women through the provision of documentation and resources, training programs, seminars, speakers, curricula and educational materials for grassroots women to assist them in mobilizing and organizing themselves. CWR also serves to link up women's groups in the Philippines and to link with women's groups internationally. It has available a number of case studies and information on women in the Philippines.
Farmers Assistance Board Inc. (FAB)
P.O. Box AC-623, Quezon City, Philippines.
A non-governmental organization assisting peasant organizations, FAB has recently given special attention to the situation of rural women. FAB aims to promote self-awareness and the mobilization and organization of women themselves, especially the most exploited and oppressed. Among its publications is the result of a participatory research project. The Struggle Toward Self-Reliance of Organized Resettled Women in the Philippines: A Case Study. It also produces material for use by rural women, such as Herbal and other Local Remedies.
KANITA Project
School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
A research program on women and children initiated in 1978, KANITA is carrying out action-oriented research on basic issues and problems of women to aid in drawing up development policies and programs. It has produced a number of critical evaluations of development projects for women in Malaysia, including Status of Rural Women in Relation to Labour and State Modernisation Processes by Maznah Mohammad and Income Generating Activities for Women: A Case Study of Malaysia by Vasanthi Ramachandran and James Lochhead. The KANITA Papers, published occasionally, bring together the research and studies of the project. Of particular interest are issues no. 3 (April 1981) and no. 4 (July 1982) which explain and evaluate KANITA's experiences in conducting participatory research with rural women. These articles point out the constraints and implications of this methodology and some of the lessons learned.
Women in Southeast Asia: A Bibliography
Fan Kok Sim. Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Available from G.K. Hall and Co., 70 Lincoln Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 1982.
This extensive bibliography with about 4000 entries is divided by subject area and covers a wide range of topics from women workers, marriage, rural development to feminist literature in Southeast Asia. While it is not annotated, it is a useful compilation of what has been written on women in this part of the world.
appropriate technology
Women's Research Centre in Social Science
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 38, Mezz. DK-1553 Copenhagen V Denmark.
The monthly newsletter produced by this group. Women and the Labour Market reports on up-coming seminars and conferences concerning women, especially in Europe. It also contains extensive resources on specific themes, such as women and the new technology, giving annotated listings of projects, literature, summaries of reports etc.. and news about ongoing research projects on women, studies of public policies, studies of new patterns of women's work, and recent literature.
education
Kvinfo
Leaderstraede 15, 2 Sal. DK-1201 Copenhagen K Denmark.
An information service whose aim is to support and promote women's studies and gender research on a broad, interdisciplinary basis. Kvinfo coordinates Danish research on women and related topics. It also has a reading room and collection of catalogues, handbooks, bibliographies and files which encompass the registration of academic research and sources of women's expertise outside the universities. It has a photography and slide collection on loan, containing an extensive catalogue of contact prints of old photographs displaying women's lives at work, at school, at play and at home. The shades include paintings, graphics, handicrafts and sculpture by Danish artists.
ISIS Resource Guide on Women in Development asks:
What has "development" done for women?
Why do planners talk of "integrating" women into development?
What role do women really play in multinational companies? in food production? in health? in communication and education?
How are women organising themselves, and fighting to control their own lives?
This Guide offers some answers written by and for women in both developing and industrialised countries.
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ISIS is a resource and documentation centre in the international women's movement. It was set up in 1974 to collect materials from women's groups and to make these resources available to other women.
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ISIS associates, consultants and contacts in the women's movement worldwide.