Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements: Women and technology: If it's not appropriate for women, it's not appropriate.

Catalogue of training and information tools on community participation in human settlements

		Introduction
		World neighbors in action
		Human settlement managers training programme - handbook for the organization and design of courses
		Bridging the gap: A participatory approach to health and nutrition education
		Self-evaluation: Ideas for participatory evaluation of rural community development projects
		Local authority supervisor training program, Kenya
		Urban housing and community development course
		Teaching rural community development
		Organization and management of field education
		Project management program Harare, Zimbabwe
		Primer taller de capacitacion para mujeres dirigentes de organizaciones femininas en el districto de San Martin de porres
		Getting the community into the act: 72 participatory activities for field workers and trainers
		Board of director's course: Instructor's manual and handouts
		Tecnicas educativas
		Women and graphics: A beginner's kit
		The tribune: A women and development quarterly
		How to perform in front of an audience
		Audiovisual communication handbook
		Dialogar para construir, diseno participativo en barrios populares de Bogota
		Women and technology: If it's not appropriate for women, it's not appropriate.
		1. Como leer un plano - 2. Mejoramiento poblacional
		1. Sistema constructivo 'bend' - 2. Prefabricacion, sistema 'bend'
		1. El replanted - 2. Como construir una vivienda con calicanto - 3. Como construir una vivienda con bloques de concreto - 4. Como construir una vivienda con cinva-ram - 5. Como construir una vivienda con horcones y concreto
		Small-scale production of lime for buildings
		Making building blocks with the cinva-ram block press.
		Building with stabilised soil blocks
		Small-scale production of local building materials
		Manual para la construccion de vivienda con adobe
		Casas de tierra, Minka no. 9, october 1982
		Construction reference manual, a sourcebook for the use of local materials in construction.
		Sistematizacion de una practica tecnica en vivienda social
		Manual de autoconstruccion
		Manual de construcao moradias nas aldeias comunais.
		When you build a house: a manual of construction details for Caribbean houses with emphasis on protection from strong winds
		Cooler in summer/warmer in winter: How to improve your shha house
		Techniques for low-cost/self-help housing
		Affordable sanitation
		Making your house safe against strong winds
		A campaign plan for tinsa valley
		Cooperative housingaffordability and related technical solutions
		Co-operatives: the affordable housing alternative
		Managing housing co-ops' money
		Estructura interna de una cooperativa de vivienda: Pobladores y educacion no. 1
		Co-operative housing, a handbook for effective operations
		Co-op housing - The best move we ever made
		Ideas on proposal writing and financial/technical assistance
		Information and training materials for low-cost water supply and sanitation
		Self-help housing improvements for lowest-income communities: Motivators' and trainers' guide
		Manual para proyectos de ayuda mutua

Women and technology: If it's not appropriate for women, it's not appropriate.

PRODUCED BY: THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S TRIBUNE CENTRE, 1986.

AVAILABLE FROM: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S TRIBUNE CENTRE, 777 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA, NEW YORK, NY 10017, USA.

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

COST: $US 50

This tape-slide presentation is based on the proceedings of "Tech and Tools: an Appropriate Technology Event for Woemn at Forum '85", where exhibitors from 27 countries discussed the 'appropriateness' of technologies. The set consists of 80 slides, a 15-minute audio cassette tape, a script and a short bibliography. The tape-slide begins by highlighting the issues which confront women in their efforts to have access to and use of technology in development. It raises critical questions about modern technology: who decides, who will benefit and who will profit? Who decides on the priorities? What technology is appropriate and for whom?

Using various examples, the tape-slide show indicates how development in technology in many cases has not brought about any significant improvements for women. If women had been directly involved in projects, many of the failures would have been avoided. Examples are provided of initiatives taken by women to make technology appropriate.

Although the tape is not specific to housing programmes, it does raise general issues about planning and how decisions are made in development programmes. The tape-slide show, therefore, would be an interesting way of bringing up the subject of women's participation in decision-making for programmes that will affect them and their communities either with planners, aid agencies or community groups who are recipients of an aid package. Notes are included on how to use the slides for a presentation.

WOMEN AND TECHNOLOGY:

IF IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE FOR WOMEN, IT'S NOT APPROPRIATE

A Production Of

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S TRIBUNE CENTRE