PARTNERS
Regional African Partners
International Islamic Center for Population Studies and Research
The center was founded at Al-Azhar University in cooperation with United Nations Population Fund. It works to dispel misconceptions about Islam and population policies that can be adopted in the Muslim societies. This it achieves through conducting research in the Islamic world, and to add credibility to the population information obtained before its dissemination in these countries.
Contact Information:
P.O. Box 11651- 1894 Cairo
Tel: (202) 5122749 – (202) 5122406 – (202) 5122428
Fax: (202) 5122749
Email: iicpsr@iicpsr-alazhar.org
Health Systems Trust
Health Systems Trust is an independent non-governmental organization established in 1992 to support the transformation of the South African health system. It conducts and supports research conducted by other organizations, and serves an advocacy organization; aiming to promote evidence-based health systems development, improve the scientific literacy of the public, and campaign for greater equity and social justice.
Contact Information:
401 Maritime House, Salmon Grove, Victoria Embankment, Durban 4001
P.O.Box 808, Durban 4000 South Africa
Tel/Fax: (27-31) 3072954 – (27-31) 3040775
Email: hst@hst.org.za
Department of Community Health, College of Medicine, University of Lagos
The Department of Community Health's primary objective is to facilitate the training of doctors to meet the healthcare needs of the Nigerian population at all levels of the healthcare delivery system. It also provides clinical and community services for the promotion of maternal and child health, including reproductive health services.
Population Council, Nairobi
The Population Council has been working in Kenya since 1965, when it was invited to send a team of experts to assist the Government of Kenya in formulating its first national population policy. Because the scale of activities in the country grew over the next two decades, the Council established an office in Nairobi in 1988. This served as the regional office for East and Southern Africa until the creation in 2002 of a regional office for Sub-Saharan Africa in Accra, Ghana.
International Sexuality Forum (ISF)
The ISF is a group composed by the Directors of Regional Resource Centres on Sexuality and Human Rights around the world. The Centres are part of a Global Dialogue on Sexual Health and Well-being and their work on sexuality, gender, reproductive and sexual rights emphasizes an approach from the social sciences, humanities rather than a medical approach, as a way to promote knowledge and advocacy in the field.
Facilitator: Violeta Barrientos
Other members of the International Sexuality Forum and Resource Centres
National Sexuality Resource Centre (NSRC)
(Hosted by San Francisco State University)
The National Sexuality Resource Center gathers and disseminates the latest accurate information and research on sexual health, education, and rights. Through active outreach to advocates, academics, researchers, policy makers, and diverse communities, NSRC initiates constructive dialogues—both online and face-to-face—on sexuality to promote social justice and improve the quality of life in the United States.
Contact Information: Gilbert Herdt, PhD. Director
2017 Mission Street, Suite 300
San Francisco, California 94110
Tel: (415) 4375121
Fax: (415) 6213783
Email: nsrcinfo@sfsu.edu
The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality (SSARCS)
(Hosted by Talking About Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues) TARSHI
The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality aims to increase knowledge and scholarship on issues of sexuality, sexual health and sexual well being in this region. The Resource Centre specifically focuses on sexuality related work in China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, The Philippines, and Vietnam. A regional Advisory Committee provides inputs on country specific needs. Similar centres are located in Africa, Latin America, and the United States. The Centre serves as a space for activists, advocates, practitioners, and researchers, to better understand, examine, and expand upon the complex issues surrounding debates on sexuality.
Contact Information: Radhika Chandiramani. Director
11 Mathura Road, First Floor, Janpura B, New Delhi 110014, India
Tel: (91-11) 24379070- (91-11) 24379071
Email: resourcecentre@tarshi.net
centro latinoamericano d sexualidad y derechos humanos (CLAM)
Latin American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights
The Latin-American Center on Sexuality and Human Rights produces, organizes, and disseminates knowledge about sexuality from a human-rights perspective, in order to contribute to the reduction of gender inequality and to the struggle against the social discrimination of sexual minorities in the region. Through dialogue among universities, social movements and policymakers, the Center brings together researchers, activists and other partners interested in encouraging academic, social and political debate on sexuality and human rights in Latin America
Created in 2002 with Ford Foundation support, the Center is housed at Rio de Janeiro State University’s Institute of Social Medicine (IMS/UERJ), whose Program for Study and Research on Gender, Sexuality and Health has developed research and promoted training in this area for two decades.
Contact Information: Sergio Carrara. Director
IMS/UERJ- Rua.Sao Francisco Xavier, 524 Pav. Joao Lyra Filho, 6° andar, Bloco E Maracana, Rio de Janeiro 20550-013, Brazil
Tel: (55-21) 25680599, (55-21) 25689526
Fax: (55-21) 22347343
The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality (CCIES) Project
Between 1992 and 2008, editors of the award-winning CCIES Project recruited qualified volunteer scholars to research and write in-depth reports covering all major aspects and issues of human sexuality in specific countries. To facilitate comparisons and research on specific sexuality issues, each report follows a standardized outline. Currently, CCIES is available in a single massive volume with in-depth reports on 62 countries including 6 African nations compiled by 280 volunteer researchers.
The 62 CCIES countries are also posted on the Kinsey Institute website with a unique open access worldwide and free download . Any sexuality researcher, scholar or student with a computer and internet service can now consult, while new reports and old, dated reports can be revised.
CCIES's cooperation with ARSRC includes putting enhanced electronic files in PDF, HTML, ZIP, CD and HD formats for Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania in the ARSRC Resource Library. Through ARSRC extensive contacts CCIES editors hope to recruit volunteers to write reports on more African countries and update already posted reports. Excerpts from CCIES will also be included in the Sexuality in Africa Magazine , thereby promoting access to sexuality knowledge in Africa.
Contact Information: Robert T. Francoeur, PhD, CCIES Editor,
4310 Cleveland Lane, Rockaway NJ 07866-5811 USA
Email: rtfrancoeu@aol.com
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