Banúlacht

We are a feminist development education organisation.

We work through:

• Conferences, workshops and seminars on gender, development and human rights. To read about our most recent conference, Violence Against Women A Global Crisis: Accountability—Activism—Action, which was organised in partnership with the Clare and Limerick Women’s Networks, click here. For more on our conferences, click here.



Participants at the
November 2009 conference


• Training and capacity building in the community development sector in Ireland. Courses include 'Women's Human Rights' and 'Looking at the Economy through Women's Eyes'.
   
• Exchanges with women's organisations in the global South. Banúlacht has an ongoing exchange programme with the Tanzania Gender Networking Programme and Kivulini Women’s Rights Organisation. Two exchange visits to Tanzania by women from community development organisations in Ireland have been organized (2007 and 2008). A return visit by women from the Tanzanian organisations is planned for 2009. A radio documentary by Niamh Farren, one of the participants, called, 'Voices of Tanzania', based on the exchange, which can be heard here. For reports and photos of the visit, see the Gender and Development Bulletins from December 2007 and March 2009, or visit the Banúlacht Update.

 
• Research and policy work on development policy from a feminist perspective.
   
• Publication of briefing papers, newsletters, reports and training resources.