Call for Papers

The Gender and Development Exchange
(Quarterly Newsletter for Southern Africa)

SARDC is an independent regional information resource that seeks to enhance the effectiveness of key development processes in the region through the collection, production and dissemination of information, and enabling the capacity to generate and use information. In this regard the Women in Development Southern Africa Awareness Programme (WIDSAA) within SARDC, aims to enable the SADC region to effectively process and manage information in order to facilitate women’s empowerment, gender mainstreaming and the achievement of gender equity and equality.

WIDSAA produces a quarterly newsletter titled the Gender and Development Exchange (GAD Exchange) that profiles and analyses current gender and development issues. It aims to be a catalyst and stimuli not only to partners in 14 countries to closely examine the significance of national issues for regional development, but to also provide a platform for gender activists to raise contemporary issues for critical debate. The GAD Exchange also provides current news of activities advancing the gender agenda in the region. Information on all WIDSAA acquisitions for the quarter under review is also profiled.

The GAD Exchange is posted on the SARDC WIDSAA web site for wider access and utilization (http://www.sardc.net/widsaa/gadexchange/2001). Hard copies are circulated and received by approximately 115 contacts and partners in the region and internationally.

The Editorial Team is calling for papers for Issue No 26 of the GAD Exchange. Writers are invited to submit articles analyzing developments in the areas outlined below, and their significance for, and advancing the regional gender agenda:-

The gendered nature of globalisation and its impact on poverty in Africa
Gender gaps in information and communication technologies
Women’s sexuality and reproductive rights; the link between gender violence and HIV/AIDS
New gender roles and unremunerated work
The situation of women in the context of armed conflict
SADC Protocols and their implications for women
Innovations in legislating on gender

Articles should be:-

Maximum 1000 words
Electronic format (MS Word)
Factual and analytical

They should be sent to either [email protected] or [email protected]. WIDSAA reserves the right to edit all articles. Deadline for articles 25th October, 2001