Guide / Training Material

This is the Fall- Winter 2008 Arabic Publications Catalogue from NDI. Publications cover the areas of Political Parties, Activism and Technology, Campaigning, Civic Action, Governance, Media and Communications, Women’s Participation and Elections.

This guide provides practical recommendations and tools on how to promote women in parliaments in the Pacific region. It describes the use of special measures such as reserved seats and political party quotas, and special campaigning tools.

This handbook provides practical suggestions for designing systems of local governance through decentralization, autonomy, and building linkages across international borders.

This discussion guide aims at serving the community organizers and trainers of Asian rural and indigenous organizations as a tool for discussion. It aims to develop a common understanding of globalization; presents critique of globalization and its impacts on rural and indigenous women of Asia.

These guidelines are a set of practical steps to assist governments, the non state sector and civil society to respond to women’s concerns and needs in post disaster situations.

This guidebook provides brief and simple references on gender mainstreaming in legislative processes. In particular, the guide focuses on two of the three principal functions of the House of Representative (DPR) in Indonesia, namely producing legislation and forming budgets.

This is a quick guide to campaigning for Pacific women. It features case studies of Pacific women who have stood for national elections in their respective countries. In these case studies, they share practical tips for campaigning, their struggles and triumphs.

This handbook includes a conceptual framework on the need of an inclusive dialogue; how to put concepts into practice: exploring the possibility for dialogue, designing the dialogue process, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and dilemmas and challenges; and case sutdies.

This checklist is aimed at facilitating more effective integration of gender during project formulation stages. The checklist should be used by project and programme officers, gender advisors, gender focal points and project managers to integrate gender from the beginning of project development.