In Arabic: How to Run a Workshop

A good way to keep up with important issues in your field is to sign up for digital newsletters (e-bulletins) from good information providers…

Chris Laming is in the Networklearning support committee. He has run courses in Australia for men who use domestic violence. The course is available to download from the Networklearning Library. Last summer he had the good chance to visit an NGO working in a programme against Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Mombasa, Kenya. The NGO is Coast Women in Development . He emailed us:

Do you get communications from ARROW in Malaysia? Their materials are great. And now they have some of their bulletins translated – in Thai, Mandarin, and Cebuano. If you are interested in obtaining free print copies, giving feedback, or having an AFC issue translated into an Asia-Pacific language, they would love to hear from you. Email to afc@arrow.po.my

Do you get the Drumbeat newsletter? Every so often they send out an issue on Awards and funding. These tend to be small-scale and specific to people or areas – but if you fit these conditions…why not try? For example, New Field Foundation has grant money and wants the submission of introductory information from organisations in certain areas of West Africa that are: headed by African women; working to improve rural women’s organisations, their families, communities, and countries etc; Deadline: Rolling > New Field Foundation Grants

Here is something to celebrate. In fact three lives to celebrate – those of the three women who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize this year. One of them is Leymah Gbowee, aged 39, for her work in mobilizing women from across Liberia’s ethnic and religious divides.