Ireland and Gender assignment
The theme of this assignment is clearly linked to the topic of HDR 1995. At the same time this assignment offers a special challenge as it would be a NHDR for a developed country. Discussing the specificities of the process of producing an industrial country NHDR, as well as how well you can adapt the framework suggested by HDR95, could represent a useful starting point for the planning process of your team work. You might also find that making a schedule of what you would like to prepare and when might help you planning your team assignment as well as coordinating it with your individual assignments.
The materials provided should enable you to gather information on the general situation of the country, as well as on more specific gender issues and the term in which these issues are seen in Ireland, who are the actors involve, and what kind of actions can be envisaged. The selection of materials covered does not aim however at being exhaustive, rather at providing you with pointers on the kind of issues discussed, the kind of actors involved, the processes taking place in the country.
You might use any other source of information from global reports and materials available in the reference unit to web resources to enrich your understanding of the different issues you chose to tackle. You might also want to visit QEH library or do a search on ELDIS at http://www.eldis.org/ if you need more inspiration – beware however that the emphasis of this sources would mostly be on developed countries.
Please remember however to time your efforts appropriately. It is more important to deliver all the output you are required, even if based on a narrow informational basis whose shortfalls you might want to point to, than to collect vast amounts of new materials which you will not have the time to process.
NB: here are some examples of web based materials:
http://www.lis.ceps.lu/wps/224.pdf [gender, inequality and the welfare state]
http://www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/girl/
http://www.unicef-icdc.org/store [women and the transition]
http://www.unifem.org [UNIFEM site, latest report on line]
http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/links_actv.html [gender activist links]
you might also want to search in the huge
