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AcknowledgementsThis Resource Guide would not have been possible without the active collaboration, significant contributions and hard work of many people from different institutions in Denmark and The Netherlands. We would first and foremost like to thank Gendernet our partner for the last two years in gender capacity building for international NGOs based in Denmark. The lively exchanges, training situations and dynamic debates that we have shared have certainly helped improve our practice and we hope that this has also been the case for Gendernet. We would like to thank members of the Gender and Rights Group in Gendernet who commissioned this Guide on the understanding that doing ‘rights’ does not necessarily mean that development organizations find the gender thing any easier to do. We would like to thank Martha Salazar, consultant, Marianne Haahr, CARE Denmark; Jette Egelund , consultant; Julie O. Nielsen, Save the Children Youth; Katarina Blomqvist , KVINFO; Stinne L. Bech , Amnesty International Denmark; Carol Rask, Dan Church Aid; and Kathrine Starup, Danish Refugee Council. We hope that we have been able to do justice to the helpful comments provided by them. We are also grateful to those members of Gendernet who agreed to be interviewed in preparation for this Guide. They include Morton Fauerby Thomsen CARE, Gitte Weise Hermansen,IBIS; Susanne Adelhardt Jensen, MS-Action Aid; Julie O. Nielsen, Save the Children Youth; Katarina Blomqvist, KVINFO; Stinne L. Bech, Amnesty International DK; and Kathrine Starup, The Danish Refugee Council. A special word of thanks to Signe Yde-Andersen the coordinator of Gendernet until September 2009. Signe came and found us when Gendernet wanted to build gender capacity and supported us throughout in all the joint endeavours. She contributed to the structure and content of the training programmes and as well the Guide. We would also like to thank Olga Ege the present coordinator who ably followed up with us and Anne Rehder research assistant at Gendernet. Closer home we have a number of people to thank. We would like to thank Sandra Quintero research assistant at KIT for setting up RefWorks and helping with the desk research and Laurel Sherret who followed on from Sandra with research support as well formatting and editing the first draft. We would like to thank our colleague Peter Hessels whose coaching made it possible for us to upload the Guide on the web. We thank Kirsty Milward our super editor and author of the Issue Briefs. Kirsty turned around the editing of this massive Guide in less than seven days. Meticulous, punctual and creative, Kirsty is all that one can wish in an editor. The South African connection in preparation of this Guide needs special mention. We would like to thank Shamim Meer whose initial drafts and notes prepared for the KIT/CALS course Building Capacity for Rights: Democracy and Development in Africa has significantly contributed to the structure and content. We would like to thank the participants of the 2007 and 2008 course held at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg for their practical inputs. A special word of thanks to Prof. Cathi Albertyn, former director of CALS and at present professor of law in the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg, for clarifying concepts of equality and making legal rights and the human rights framework accessible. KIT has collaborated with Shamim and Cathi over the years in research and activism on gender and rights and this has provided the inspiration for this Guide. We have left one of the hardest working and most dynamic members of the KIT team to the last. We thank Anne Janssen for jumping in to help finalise this project: her thoroughness in checking references, learning a whole new language of web based publications and then proceeding to upload the Guide effortlessly. If you are reading this Guide on the web it is because of Anne on the Amsterdam end and Anne on the Copenhagen front. Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay (Ph.D)
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