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Arab Network for Gender and Development “@NGED“

Arab Network for Gender and Development “@NGED“, launched in April 2002 by the Center of Arab Woman for Training and Research “ CAWTAR “, with the support of the World Bank’s Development Grant Facility (DGF)

The third annual @NGED MEETING


The third annual meeting of the Arab Network for Gender and Development is considered of prime importance for both CAWTAR and the 150 members from 18 Arab countries for many reasons of which most important are:
-This meeting will produce a change in the direction of concentrating on a specific category of its members who are the research centres in the areas of women and development.
-It would prepare to undertake a new operational convention for next coming years depending on the regional priorities under the frame work of @NGED and its programmes.

The third annual meeting will be held in mid September 2004 within a regional seminar under the theme of “The Arab Woman, Studies and Policies: Mechanisms and Strategies”

The international and regional framework for the seminar:

The Arab Human Development Report for 2002 has shown that the Arab world faces three priority gaps; these are the gaps in knowledge of and control over new technologies, the gap in freedom and democracy and that of women empowerment. For achieving sustainable human development these gaps must be addressed. The report has also emphasized on the importance of linking the process of achieving human development and “constructing a society of knowledge”. The society of knowledge requires placing sub-sectoral strategies that can achieve the integration of retaining, acquiring and disseminating knowledge. This could, for example, be achieved by finding linkage chains between the educational systems and those of training and labour market demands in both the public and private sectors. Equally, linkages connecting innovators, researchers and policy analysts with producers and decision makers should be found.

The frame work of Beijing emphasized on the importance of availing and disseminating gender segregated data and information for planning and assessment purposes in cooperation with research and documentation organizations. This approach would encourage the involvement of study centres concerning women and research organizations in establishing and ascertaining appropriate indicators and research approaches for the analysis addressing both sexes and also to record and evaluate the implementation of the targets of the frame work.

It was mentioned in the final report of Beijing + 5 conference, that “even though it is well known that governments are delegated the main responsibility for placing and implementing policies that are to achieve equality between men and women, the partnerships between governments and other active elements in the civil society is being increasingly considered as an important mechanism to achieve this target. Innovative and new approaches could be put in place to support this cooperation. Effective and coordinated plans and programmes should be established to implement the frame work in a comprehensive manner being fully informed about the state of women (and girls) and the availability of knowledge-based research, disaggregated data, targeting long and short term achievements, aiming at measurable goals and mechanisms to follow up the assessment of the achieved development. The need implies that all efforts should be spared to ensure capacity building of all active relevant players involved in achieving theses goals.

* The joint Arab report on the follow up of the achievements of Arab countries in the implementation of the Beijing frame work produced by the Arab League, has emphasized in its final recommendations on “Establishing a data base together with statistics and indicators on all sectors from a gender point of view so as to enable the preparation of plans, programmes and projects based on actual pragmatic and strategic need” and the “circulation of the collected information, research, studies, data and indicators so that it is available to serve the needs of all countries”. The conferences of the Arab Women summits and the seminars conducted under their umbrella, have all insisted on the importance of supporting researches, studies, training, and collection of statistical indicators on the situation of the Arab women and gender. Given these recommendations from the political Arab leaderships, there is a need to emphasize on the importance of linkage between the knowledge produced in the region and the decisions taken, policies established and programmed and implemented projects.

Reasons for holding the Seminar:

In the last decade, the Arab region has witnessed at both national and regional levels an increase in the knowledge production on Arab women and gender. Many parties, including universities and research centres concerned with women and developmental issues, have contributed in the formation of this wealth of knowledge. In addition, strategic studies centres, governmental institutions, civil organisation, civil society institutions and international organisations have addressed gender and development issues in their programmes and analytical works. The importance of knowledge and conducting quantitative research in all sectors has been emphasized over and over again as pre-requisite for elevating the status of women by focusing on their role in development. Some have included amongst their main objectives that “for the report to be a tool to acknowledge the undelivered promises and to formulate strategies and working programmes to protect the security of women in the Arab nations”. This is in line with findings mentioned in the last Arabic report about women issued by UNIFEM in July 2004.

The Arab world is witnessing an increasingly dynamic move in the direction of reforms of laws concerning women, children, and family issues. This is often linked with developing new laws based on empowering the position of women in the society and emphasising her role in development. The commitment of the Arab countries to implement the international agreements and their respective ratifications, has resulted the creation of national programmes and mechanisms that are concerned with advancing the status of women, improving their position, and empowering women with skills and resources. With increasing sources of knowledge production on women’s status in the region, increasingly progressive judicial reforms, and an expansion of relevant institutions, CAWTAR envisages that the 2004 annual @NGAD meeting should address the following questions :
--- What is the relationship between gender research and studies centres, their academic work, and the policy making institutions and their programs, development plans, and laws?
--- What is the role that research and study centres concerned with women issues play or could play in promoting these developed policies, laws and programmes?
--- What are the present/possible forms of interactions between these research institutes and decision makers? What are the hurdles that challenge such interactions?
--- To what extent do decision makers invest in studies, research, and reports on the status of women produced in the Arab region, especially in those conducted by research and study centres?
--- What are the incentives for governmental institutions to develop within their structures, research and study directorates/units? Is it to confirm what specialised research and study centres have achieved or is it because the later did not establish effective relations with decision makers to adopt their researches and studies?
-What are the missing links between the decision makers and research institutions concerned with women issues in the Arab world?


Objectives of the seminar:

- Concentrate on three pillars that CAWTAR considers of importance: research, development planning and reforms, and legislation..
- Present the proven/possible interaction mechanisms between the research and study centres in general and those that are specialised in gender and development issues in particular; and the interaction mechanisms between policies, programmes and legislation.

The seminar will focus on three different levels of discussion regarding the possible interactions:
1. At the vertical interaction level: local, national, regional and international interaction (or vice verse from international to local).
2. At the horizontal level: with the contribution of all relevant parties from non governmental organizations and civil society organizations, centres of research and women’s studies, development planning institutions, and the media.
3. The interaction mechanisms that are evident or known to be possible to activate advocacy projected from a knowledge capital that is not used sufficiently and/or has not been explore yet.

Outcomes of the seminar:

In addition to providing a forum for research papers to be presented, a report summarizing the most important points of discussion and recommendations will be compiled. Moreover, it is expected that the seminar will present the main features of an effective strategy to promote gender in policies, programmes and laws that could be endorsed by different research and study centres. This will include concrete suggestions of the main mechanisms to promote the envisaged level of interaction among the main players.

Structure of the seminar:

First session:
This will include a general discussion about the different possible interactions between research and studies centres, and policies, programmes and laws while concentrating on the evident and potential mechanisms of interactions. Then a review of Arab and foreign experiences of actual interactions will be presented.
Discussions of the first session:
The discussion will be based on complementing the presented experiences with others that have used other mechanisms or different channels to create an interaction between the research structures and the institutions of the political, legal, and developmental spheres. It is also expected that part of the discussions will be based on the difficulties that could hinder the desired interaction outcome.

Second session:

This session will look to learn from the experience of others in producing the Third Arab Women Development Report on “Gender and Decision Making” and the experiences of some partners from within and outside the region to envisage mechanisms that could be adapted for the report in progress to ensure the desired impact on policies from the early stages of producing the report.

Discussions of third session:
The floor would then be opened to discuss the reliable mechanisms that would ensure the involvement of decision makers would help establish reliable mechanisms that would ensure policy impact from the early stages.

Third session:

The second session will focus on a concrete topic, namely gender, children and youth. Arab and foreign experiences will be presented to discuss the links and possible mechanisms that promote research on children and youth in policy making. Moreover, CAWTAR will share with the @NGED participants the progress of the “Arab Adolescent Girl” report in reaching policy makers.


Discussions of the second session:

The discussions will be based on the challenges and ways to overcome them in reaching policy makers to endorse recommendations of reports, researches and studies that are conducted by Arabic research centres in the field of adolescents and youth.

Fourth Session:

This session will focus on the modification and refinement of pragmatic recommendations in order to achieve a desired level of interaction between the study and research centres on gender and development and policy and law makers .

This is to be achieved by concentrating on: The possible channels between all parties and the role of :
--- Research and study centres and civil society organisations;
--- The Media; and
--- Decision makers and parliamentarians.

Contributors:

· Representatives from research and study centres of women conditions, gender and development.
· Representatives form strategic study centres.
· Representatives from ministries of planning and women committees.
· Parliamentarians.
· Representatives of NGOs.
- Journalists and media representatives.Art Exhibition:

As part of the activities of the seminar, an exhibition of embroidery and handicraft by Arab women is being organised. It is requested that participants support the success of the exhibition with women handicraft (embroidery) from their countries and to inform CAWTAR in advance as to the number of pieces that they will contribute.