1. Women’s work is huge but most of it remains invisible and unpaid: women account for 2/3 of working hours in the world if we take into account domestic work and care to the family, which are not given an economic value in the global GDP statistics).
2. Poverty is increasingly becoming a gender-related issue: 70% of the people living with less than 1 US$ per day are women.
3. Women’s over-exposition to violence, to mutilations, to the consequences of armed conflicts, to sexually transmissible diseases and to all kinds of discriminations is blatant.

enda integrated a gender perspective in its institutional mission :

"enda seeks to build societies where each individual can participate, with full responsibility, to collective regulation. To reach this objective, enda promotes development and fights the various forms of exclusion and poverty as well as the mechanisms generating them. (...)
enda promotes the respect of human rights, pluralism, cultural diversity and equity between genders and generations. (…)"

 enda puts into practice a gender policy based on :

1. Promoting women’s entrepreneurship
2. Valorising women’s work and traditional knowledge
3. Promoting women’s rights through social change

Some of enda’s entities and programs carry out actions directed towards women so as to support, valorise, improve and add value to their activities:

1. micro-credit (trade, handicraft, organic agriculture…)
2. community and reproductive health, medicinal plants…  
3. support to women’s community based organisations providing services to their communities (kindergartens, save-and-credit groups, restaurants, management of water and sanitation infrastructures, housing improvement groups, waste collection, recycling, vegetable production, women migrant’s associations...),
4. support to women in a situation of vulnerability (girls in the street, housemaids...).

It is also about promoting women’s access to high-value activities that are not traditionally carried out by women, such as ICTs, waste treatment, large-scale finance, women’s rights and participation to decision making and advocacy towards local, national and international authorities.

Some of those guidelines are put into practice in specific programmes such as "Gender and Development Synergy" (www.famafrique.org for African francophone women), "Cyberpop" in Dakar, "Women and the City" in Colombia ; other are integrated as a "gender mainstreaming" in non-specific programmes where attention is paid to the changes provoked by the project on the male and female role models.

At the internal level, enda had several gender audits carried out in Senegal, Ethiopia and in the Dominican Republic.

Here are a few publications by enda on gender :

1990, Excision au Sénégal, 125 p. (in French)
1995, Les femmes et la crise urbaine ou la gestion invisible du logement et des services urbains, 189 p. (in French and Spanish)
1997, Femmes et Africaines – un double combat, 224 p. (in French)
1997, La débrouille au féminin – Stratégies de débrouillardise des femmes de quartiers défavorisés en Tunisie, 136p. (in French and English)
2005, Des hommes, des femmes, du mariage…et autres contes wolof, 159 p. (in French)
2005, Energie et pauvreté : histoires vécues de femmes et d’hommes, 77 p. (in French and in English)

All those books can be ordered to Enda Eddoc or Enda Europe

Enda Eddoc
Contact : Raphaël Ndiaye
Sicap Amitié III
Avenue Bourguiba
Villa 4335 - Dakar - Sénégal
Tél. : (221) 33 824 25 85
Fax: (221) 33 823 51 57
E-mail:coorcom@enda.sn
Web : eddoc.enda.sn

enda europe
Contact: Annelaure Wittmann

5, rue des immeubles industriels
75011 Paris - France
Tél.: (331) 44 93 87 40
Fax: (331) 44 93 87 50
E-mail: contact@enda-europe.org
Web : http://enda-europe.org

Examples of actions carried out by Enda on the gender issue

Colombia a) Support to the « Friend of Women House », a centre for female households. b) Social mapping for female waste recyclers to encourage their participation in local environmental management structures.	Senegal a) Popular Women Save-and-Credit Groups or Medical Micro Insurance b) Medicinal plants, organic agriculture c) Advocacy against descolarisation of girls, early marriages and sex mutilations, through « community persuadors» d) Bridging the gender digital gap by training female radio moderators and capacity building on ICT use e) Prevention and CARE of HIV/AIDS infected female sex workers. Tunisia Micro-credit and capacity building in business management Vietnam Gender mainstreaming in housing and sanitation : « happy family clubs », capacity building on child nutrition infantile, gynaecological care, information days on the Marriage and Family Law… Ethiopia Advocacy and capacity building for an effective gender mainstreaming in public environmental policies t
Brazil - Support to craftswomen (ceramic for decoration or culture and citizenship) in a favela in Rio.
Morocco Support to women cooperatives (carpets with recycled material, argan oil, essential oils…) .
Madagascar Fight against home violence. .