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Equit Institute

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Agriculture
  • Development
  • Financing for Development
  • Food
  • Intellectual Property
  • New Global Institutions
  • Social Development
  • Trade and Development
  • United Nations Reform
  • Women/gender Equality

    • Financing for Development:
  • Addressing systemic issues
  • International Trade as an engine for development

    • Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Capacity building
  • Research
  • Women and the economy

    • Sustainable Development:
  • Agriculture
  • Consumption and production patterns
  • Gender equality
  • Transport
    • Geographic scope: International
    Country of activity:
  • Belgium
  • Zimbabwe
  • Lebanon
  • Argentina
  • Uruguay
  • United States of America
  • Colombia
  • Philippines
  • Brazil
  • Guatemala
  • India
  • Uzbekistan
  • Tunisia
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Improve maternal health
  • Develop global partnership for development
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 2003
    Organizational structure: - IGTN Global Secretariat Graciela Rodriguez, Global Coordinator/Brazil Diana Aguiar, Global Project Coordinator/Brazil - Africa (provisional) Phides Mazhawidza, Zimbabwe Hassania Chalbi-Drissi, Tunisia - Asia Naty Bernardino, Philippines - Central Asia Gulnora Makhmudova, Uzbekistan - Europe Barbara Specth, Belgium - Latin America Alma Espino, Uruguay Norma Sanchis, Argentina - Middle East and Gulf Lina Abou Habib, Lebanon - North America Kristin Sampson, United States of America - Advisors Peggy Antrobus, Barbados Yassine Fall, Senegal Maria Riley, United States of America - Trade Research Mariama Williams, Jamaica This Steering Committee was originally formed when a group of feminist activists (the majority of them above nominated) have gotten together to form the network. Each 5 years, regional and global coordinators rotate and they are elected by region's Steering Committee and by global Steering Committee meetings, respectively.
    Number and type of members: - Equit Institute is an NGO with 6 employees. IGTN is a network with several member organizations regionally: IGTN Africa Zambia Alliance of Women, Zambia (Chipo Mhlanga) NAWE, Mali (Diarra Fatoumata) Women on Farms, South Africa (Fatima Shabodien) CLVF/FEMNET, Senegal (Fatou Bintou Thioune) CAEDHU/FEMNET, Senegal (Fatou Diouf) FEMNET, Senegal (Marie Pierre Diop and Ndeye Daro Fall) COSAPERE/ FEMNET, Senegal (Mbeinda Diop Lamotte) NETRIGHT, Ghana (Patricia Blankson Akakpo) NAWE, Gambia (Sirra Ndow) Association of Women for Development, Niger (Thérèse Keita) IGTN Asia Women and Gender Institute, Miriam College, Philippines Gigi Francisco - regional coordinator Natividad Bernardino - co-coordinator Clem Novales - communications and networking officer IGTN-Asia Associates: Jayson Cainglet (Philippines) Marina Durano, PhD (Philippines) Maria Sagrario Floro, PhD (Philippines, USA) Lanyan Chen, PhD (China) Avanti Mukherjee (India) Mabel Au (Hong Kong) Marvic Leonen, LLM (Philippines) Sheelu Francis (India) Lek Jimpraset (Thailand) IGTN Central Asia Business Women's Association of Uzbekistan Gulnora Makhmudova – Coordinator IGTN Europe WIDE, Belgium Barbara Specht (Advocacy and Information Officer) Benedicte Allaert (WIDE Coordinator) IGTN Latin America CIEDUR – Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies, Uruguay (Alma Espino, Paola Azar, Soledad Salvador, Martha Chiappe, Nicole Bidegain and Gabriela Pedetti) Asociación Civil Lola Mora, Argentina (Norma Sanchís (Coordinator) and Veronica Baracat) Equit Institute- Global Gender, Economy and Citizenship, Brazil (Graciela Rodriguez, Diana Aguiar, Vivian Tavares da Costa, Marta Lago, Lucia Santalices) REPEM - Popular Education Network between Women, Colombia (Patricia Jaramillo and Liubka Buitrago) Mujer y Medio Ambiente A.C., Mexico (Rebeca Salazar) Mesa Global de Guatemala (Norma Maldonado) IGTN Middle East and Gulf CRTDA - Collective for Research and Training on Development – Action (Lina Abou-Habib and Roula Al-Masri) IGTN USA Center of Concern (Kristin Sampson, Maria Riley and Abiosseh Davis)
    Affiliation with NGO networks: Our World is not for Sale (OWINFS), Trade-Finance Linkages, Women's Working Group on Financing for Devlopment
    Funding structure:
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
  • Foreign and international grants
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