Annual Report 2002
Beijing Follow-Up - Project Areas
Thursday 21 November 2002
The twelve (12) critical areas of concern with the Beijing Platform for Action remain central to CAFRA’s progress. The project areas within this framework are as follows:
| Women and Poverty | Education and Training | Women and Health |
|---|---|---|
| Lobbying governmetns to move towards Poverty Eradication instead of Poverty Alleviation | Feminist Theory Workshops; Backlash on Male Marginalisation | Women and Reproductive/Sexual Health |
| Work with Rural Women | Popular Education, Literacy, Methodology as a Feminist Intervention | HIV/AIDS Policy Document |
| Cottage Industries | Participatory Action Research | Training Manual on HIV/AIDS Intervention/Prevention for use among children 8-10 years. |
| South-South Rural Women’s Development Network | Consciousness raising issues/social and political levels, discussion | Tourism and the Sex Trade |
| Technical Assistance for income generating | Analysis of Feminism in the Region and what is the focus, diversity, methodology and ethics of feminism | Abortion |
| Trafficking in Drugs | Publication of CAFRA NEWS The effects of Religious Fundamentalism Anthology of CAFRA’s first fifteen years Capacity Building/DFID Lobbying Techniques/Negotiating skills Rights, care and protection of children Socialising, educating and sensitizing children with a deeply embedded sense of respect for each sex |
| WOMEN AND THE MEDIA | WOMEN AND THE ENVIRONMENT | THE GIRL CHILD |
|---|---|---|
| Development of a Public Relations Campaign and media strategy | Women and sustainable livelihoods | Focus on the girl child with emphasis on socially challenged girls between the ages of 11-15 |
| Monitoring how women are portrayed in the media | Collaboration with CANARI | Integration of youth in all programmes |
| Publication of CAFRA NEWS | Research on the impact of Trade lIberalisation on women | Exchange projects among youth |
| Series of Radio Programmes leading up to WSSD | Promoting literacy through a children’s Reading Club | 1)Continuing education for girls whose primary and secondary education was interrupted due to pregnancy 2)Rights, care and protection of children 3)Socialising, educating and sensitizing children with a deeply embedded sense of respect for each sex |
| Women in Power and Decision Making | Institutional Mechanism | Human Rights |
|---|---|---|
| Research on the status of women - what progress we have made or not made | Continuing work with Women’s Bureaus | Cuban women’s perspective on the situation in Cuba, taking into account the visit of Carter |
| Survey on women in Politics in the region - factors inhibiting Political participation | National, Regional and intergavernmental Linkages | Women and the Law |
| Transformational Leadership Project | Series of Radio Programmes on the twelve critical areas of concern | |
| Archives on Caribbean Feminism | 1) Sexual Orientation 2) Legal Training School for women to provide them with the skills to analyse and reflect on the traditional legal system 3) Rights, care and protection of children. 4) Socialising, educating and sensitising children with a deeply embedded sense of repect for each sex |
| Violence Against Women | Women and Armed Conflict | Women and the Economy |
|---|---|---|
| Trafficking in Drugs | Solidarity with women in the Middle East | Research on the impact of Trade Liberalization on women |
| Violence from the level of the State | Race and Ethnic relations/conflict | Gender Indicatiors |
| Domestic Violence Intervention/Prevention Training Project | Cuban women’s perspective on the situation in Cuba | Economic Literacy Training |
| Tourism and the Sex Trade | Tourism and the Sex Trade |
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