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The UNIFEM series documents the development of projects and programs in numerous countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The series contains extensive documentation on the history and development of the Fund through reports of the General Council, financial statements, meeting minutes, memos, correspondence, and staffing records. A major portion of this series contains reports from the Consultative Committee, which reviewed project proposals, fund-raising activities, financial statements, and guidelines for future work.
Professional and Personal Papers contains correspondence, speeches, personal materials, documentation of her professional achievements as a Fulbright Scholar and educator as well as research and writing related to her published works.
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Includes a DVD: "The Story of the Sirleaf Market Women's Fund of Liberia" (NTSC DVD).
These materials document the activities of the Sirleaf Market Women's Fund (SMWF), an organization dedicated to supporting female traders in post-war Liberia and the larger market women movement in Africa. The records, often annotated by Snyder, include internal and external reports; minutes; memoranda of understanding and legal documents; work plans; personnel documents; email correspondence; grant proposals; financial documents such as budgets and tax returns; and other administrative materials. These records reflect SMWF's cooperative work with the Liberian government, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (also known as UN Women), and the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) to implement various support programs in attempts to bolster the economic development and empowerment of market women. Of particular note are the market surveys conducted in 2006 and 2007 of 83 different markets in Liberia. The materials also document the creation and internal workings of SMWF as a nonprofit organization.
The Green Belt Movement series contains materials related to the organization as well as Wangari Maathai. The Green Belt Movement (GBM) is an environmental organization that empowers communities, particularly women, to conserve the environment and improve livelihoods. GBM was founded by Professor Wangari Maathai in 1977 under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya (NCWK) to respond to the needs of rural Kenyan women who reported that their streams were drying up, their food supply was less secure, and they had to walk further and further to get firewood for fuel and fencing. GBM encouraged the women to work together to grow seedlings and plant trees to bind the soil, store rainwater, provide food and firewood, and receive a small monetary token for their work.