Growing Girls International (GGI), a new publication of the Center for Growing Girls, part of the Academy for Educational Development (AED), provides a forum for sharing information and experience among people who work to improve the lives of girls around the world.
GGI will be published three times per year, in online and print forms, both free of charge. Contributions or suggestions are welcome.
To subscribe or make suggestions, send an email to psutton@aed.org, or a letter to: Dr. Margaret Sutton, Academy for Educational Development, 1875 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20009. The AED Gopher address where the newsletter will reside online: gopher aed.org. Look under the heading, Gender Equity Services.
COPE:Client-Oriented, Provider-Efficient Services, a handbook that compiles and reflects the lessons AVSC and our counterparts in more than 20 countries have learned in applying and evaluating COPE.
COPE is a process and a practical set of tools for improving the quality of family planning services. The COPE handbook was produced as a resource for trained COPE facilitators and site trainers and contains all the elements needed to facilitate a complete COPE exercise.Cost: $8.
AVSC Working Paper No. 9, Postabortion Women: Factors Influencing Their Family Planning Options, describes an informal AVSC International study to learn more about the systems and structures that determine how family planning information and services are provided to women who have had an abortion. The study was conducted in India, Turkey and a country in South America. For copies of the COPE handbook or the Working Paper No.9, "Postabortion Women.." contact Felicia Brockett, at AVSC International, 79 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016; telephone 212-561-8058, fax 212-779-9439.
Population Manager and Innovative Approaches to Population Programme Management, are two new journals published by ICOMP, intended for grassroots and middle-level population program managers. The journals aim to disseminate information on effective and innovative programs to program managers in the population and health field. Under specific themes, each volume brings together four to five case studies from selected programs in a variety of socio-cultural and political contexts.
Complimentary copies of both journals are available from ICOMP, P.O. Box 12459, 50778 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: 603 4573234; Fax: 603 4560029
by Judith Bruce, Cynthia B. Lloyd, and Ann Leonard with Patrice L. Engle and Niev Duffy
This new Population Council report shows that, in rich and poor countries alike, parent-child bonds are unraveling and that women carry much more significant economic and social responsibilities for the family than commonly believed. The authors of this book urge policymakers and researchers to focus on strengthening parent-child ties and to look beyond the myth that all families are stable and cohesive units in which only the father serves as economic provider, only the mother serves as emotional caregiver, and all children are treated equally and well.
TO ORDER: FAMILIES IN FOCUS is (US) $12.50 for individuals and organizations from a developed country and is free of charge for those ordering from developing countries.
Contact The Population Council Office of Publications 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza phone: 212/339-0514 or fax: 212/755-6052 Attn: Debra Warn
Edited by Ann Leonard Introduction by Martha Chen, Afterwords by Mayra Buvinic, Misrak Elias, Rounaq Jahan, Caroline Moser, and Kathleen Staudt
SEEDS documents income generating projects developed by and for low income women and programs to enhance women's productive roles. Included in this volume are Breaking New Ground: Reaching Out to Women Farmers in Western Zambia. Supporting Women Farmers in the Green Zones of Mozambique. Port Sudan Small-Scale Enterprise Program. The Muel-Lek Women's Dairy Project in Thailand. Wasteland Development and the Empowerment of Women: The SARTHI Experience (India). Self-employment as a Means to Economic Self-Sufficiency: WomenVenture's Business Development Program. Child Care: Meeting the Need of Working Mothers and their Children (International).
TO ORDER: Contact The Feminist Press, 311 East 94th Street, New York, NY 10128 USA of call (212)360-5794. $35.00 in cloth $12.95 in paper. Shipping and handling U.S.: $4.00 for first book, $1.00 for each additional, International: $6.00 for first book, $2.00 each additional. New York State residents please add 8.@5% sales tax.
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