Subject: [CivilSoc] ISAR-Summer Issue of Give & Take
From: Tamara Kowalski (tamara@isar.org)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 18:07:07 EDT
ISAR Announces the Summer Issue of Give & Take: A Journal on Civil Society in Eurasia
“Women and the Third Sector”
ISAR: Initiative for Social Action and Renewal in Eurasia, a US-based nongovernmental organization (NGO), is pleased to announce the summer issue of its quarterly publication, Give & Take: A Journal on Civil Society in Eurasia.
Give & Take draws on ISAR's grassroots contacts and sixteen years of experience encouraging citizen initiatives in the countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU). The journal blends stories about local NGO activity with analysis of the trends affecting civil society development.
Women have often been regarded as the leaders of Third Sector development in the FSU. The summer issue of Give & Take explores gender issues in civil society, focusing on what women have accomplished for NGO development, and in turn, the political empowerment that NGOs have afforded these women. The authors analyze the advantages and disadvantages of this responsibility.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I. Women’s Role in Civil Society
• "Lessons in Transition: Gender Issues in Civil Society Development," by Valerie Estes, USAID/E&E
A look at how and why women have become increasingly involved in civil society development.
• Profiles of Women Leaders:
“MAMA-86: Protecting Children Wins Mother National Recognition,” by Schelene Smith, ISAR-WestNIS
A Ukrainian mother whose concern for her children led to the founding of an organization dedicated to environmental and health issues.
“Gyulyum: Azeri College Friends Found NGO, Find New Opportunities,” by Charmaine Bickley, ISAR-Baku
Two friends start an NGO dedicated to strengthening the environmental education curriculum for preschool children throughout Azerbaijan.
“Cheshme: Turkmen Professor Trades Chemistry for Environmental Education,”
by Amy Forster, ISAR-Almaty
The founder of the environmental NGO Cheshme and her path to fulfilling work in the NGO sector.
• "When Western Assistance Overlooks Cultural Values in FSU Gender Programs”
by Elena Gapova, Center for Gender Studies, European Humanities University Minsk
An analysis of what happens if funders of gender programs fail to consider the larger economic and political contexts in which grant recipients exist.
II. Pathways to Political Leadership
• "Tajik Women’s NGOs Nurture Greater Civic and Political Participation," by Alla Kuvatova and Margarita Khegai, Traditions and Modernity
An overview of the progression and successes of Tajik NGOs in increasing women’s political leadership roles.
• “Women’s Participation in Public Life: Is Civil Society Enough?”, by Ann Graham and Joanna Regulska, Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
The authors explore the effectiveness of women’s participation in NGO work in general as a means to a greater role in governmental representation.
• "Armenian Women’s NGOs Wage Peace," by Gulnara Shahinian, Center for Gender Studies of Democracy Union
A look at how women’s NGOs are fostering peace projects between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
III. Women’s NGOs and Women’s Issues
• "Microfinance NGO in Kazakhstan Funds Women Entrepreneurs," by Anita Wright, Kazakhstan Community Loan Fund
A US Peace Corps volunteer describes the importance of introducing capital into small women-led businesses.
• "Formation of ‘GONGOs’ in Kyrgyzstan Raises Questions about NGO Aid," by L.M. Handrahan
A report on the implications of the growing number of Government - Organized NGOs in Kyrgyzstan and Western donor reactions.
• "Soldiers’ Mothers Challenge Soviet Legacy," by Annemarie Gielen, Soldiers’ Mothers of St. Petersburg
An account of the beginnings of the Soldiers’ Mothers movement in Russia.
• "Almaty Single Mothers Offer Aid, Advice and Support," by Lyazzat Ishmukhamedova, Association of Single Mothers
The author reports on a local NGO in Kazakhstan that provides single mothers with job search assistance, legal advice and counseling.
TO ORDER THE SPRING ISSUE:
Please send a $5.00 check drawn on a US bank to:
ISAR
1601 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite #301
Washington, DC 20009
For a free copy of a back issue of Give & Take, send a request to the above address or write to <membership@isar.org>.
Selected articles from each issue of Give & Take are available on ISAR's Web site at <www.isar.org>. The Web site also includes information on ISAR programs and an article archive with dozens of stories from Give & Take and ISAR's previous journal, Surviving Together.
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