Ideas on Working with Girls

This resource collection, complied by Women, Ink., a project (closed, as of September 2010) of the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC), is a collection of games, training manuals, and workshop guides for teachers, trainers and development workers who are working for and with girls. It includes interactive and participatory training guides and resources on rights, empowerment, violence against women and girls, HIV/AIDS, sexuality and reproductive health and leadership development.

It consists of the following materials, accessible online, some in HTML format and others in PDF format, or in CD-ROM format (available by mail through the contact information below):

1. Empowering Young Women to Lead Change: A Training Manual from World YWCA and UNFPA.
2. Making Waves: How Young Women Can (and Do) Transform Organizations and Movements - Association for Women in Development (AWID)
3. Act Now! A Resource Guide for Young Women on HIV/AIDS - Sisonke Msimang and Shamilla Wilson, UNIFEM and AWID
4. Facing the Challenge of New Reproductive Technologies - Association for Women in Development (AWID)
5. Girls, HIV/AIDS and Education - The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS and UNICEF
6. Positive Women's Survival Kit - The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
7. Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV-Positive Women and Adolescent Girls: Manual for Trainers and Programme Managers - EngenderHealth & the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
8. Dreams and Desires: Sexual and Reproductive Health Experiences of HIV Positive Women - International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) & the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
9. Gender or Sex: Who Cares? Skills-building resource pack on gender and reproductive health - Ipas and Health & Development Networks (HDN)
10. Gender or Sex: Training for Trainers - Ipas and Health & Development Networks (HDN)
11. Games for Adolescent Reproductive Health - Path
12. HIV Positive Young Women, ICW Vision Paper 1 - International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
13. Tacking HIV/AIDS and Poverty in Africa: Report of the Young Women and Leadership Institute - Association for Women in Development (AWID)
14. From Combat to Community: Women and Girls of Sierra Leone - Women Waging Peace and the Policy Commission
15. Workshop on Asia-Pacific Young Women from Situations of Armed Conflict - Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD)
16. Gender and Sex - Sample of Definitions - Esplen, E. and Jolly, S., BRIDGE (gender and development)
17. Strength in Action: An Educator's Guide to Preventing Domestic Violence - Breakthrough
18. Strategies and Tools for Working with men and Boys to End Violence Against Girls, Boys, Women and Other Men - UNIFEM & Save The Children
19. Working with Men for Women's Rights - Association for Women in Development (AWID)
20. How to Advocate - League of Women Voters in the US
21. Creating Participatory Radio with Children: A Facilitator's Guide - Community Media for Development/ CMFD Productions
22. The Gender Bender Game - Soroptimist International of Jakarta
23. Our Homes, Our Lives, Ourselves: A Fun Book to Help Young People Get the Issues Right Concerning Women in Human Settlements Development - United Nations Centre for Human Settlement
24. All Different, All Equal - European Youth Campaign Against Racism, Xenophobia, Anti-Semitism and Intolerance
25. DOMINO: All Different, All Equal - Council of Europe
26. Are You a Humanizer? - Hague Appeal for Peace
27. Disarming Your Mindset - Hague Appeal for Peace
28. Ending child marriage: A guide for global policy action - United Nations Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, with the support of UNFPA, IPPF and Young Positives
29. An Advocacy Guide for Feminists - Association for Women in Development (AWID)
30. Gender Equality & Child Labor: A Participatory Tool for Facilitators - International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC)
31. Other web resources