| Currently the Project Director of
the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, (FES, since 1995), with responsibility
for Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean. Her main responsibilities
involve the design and development of education programmes which seek
to address current economic, social and political issues against the
background of regular analyses of the global, regional and national
environments. Wedderburn is very actively involved in local
activities such as the Craig Town Youth Organization, Kingston, Jamaica
for which she designed and implemented a two-year leadership training
programme for adolescent women which addressed a broad range of issues:
literacy and numeracy, gender, women's rights, reproductive health,
domestic and sexual violence. She designed and co-authored "Rise Up
Women Leaders" a popular education training guide to leadership skills
for young women for building self-confidence and self-esteem and used
in workshops for pregnant teenagers and women's groups at community
level. She also designed and taught modules on "gender as a dynamic
concept in the media" and "a gender sensitive analysis of the media"
for the undergraduate and graduate degree courses at CARIMAC,
University of the West Indies. In addition, she has facilitated popular
education workshops and designed resource materials for young women and
men in youth clubs, children's homes, schools, teacher training
colleges and media practitioners. Both of these last two activities
were part of her work with Women's Media Watch (Jamaica). Wedderburn
is a resource person and an active member of many local, national and
regional organizations including Women's Media Watch--Jamaica (founding
member and programme coordinator); the Association of Development
Agencies (Chairperson 1992-1995, Deputy Chairperson 1996-2000,
Chairperson May 2000-Present); the Caribbean Policy Development Centre
(Chairperson, 1993-1995), the Caribbean Reference Group (an Alternate
member for ACE); and Secretary-General of the Association of Caribbean
Economists (ACE). Judith is also the Caribbean Representative to
the Boards of a number of international organizations such as MATCH
International, Ottawa, Canada and the Foundation for International
Training (FIT), Toronto, Canada. Her research and publication
activities include: Trade, Integration and Gender (prepared for the
CRIES Network, Managua, Nicaragua, 2001); The Gender Implications of
Trade Policies in the Caribbean with special reference to NAFTA (UNIFEM
1998); Social Reproduction and Unpaid Work (Background paper for the
Gender Chapter of the Jamaica Human Development Report 2000); Poverty
Eradication Programmes in a context of Negative Growth and High debt:
The Case of Jamaica 1995-2000; Globalization and Governance (with
Bridgette Levy, for UN ELAC, 1999); A Caribbean Reader on Development
(editor, 1999); Crime and Violence: Causes and Solutions (co-edited
with Peter Phillips,1988); Integration and Participatory Development
(editor, 1990). Rethinking Development (editor, 1991); "Integracion,
cooperacion y coordinacion en el Caribe in Cambio de Paradigmas en
America Latina: Nuevos impulsos, nuevos temores, edited by Mols,
Hengstenberg, Kohut, Sandner and Sangmeister); The Limits of Political
Sovereignty: A Review of the Jamaican Experience, 1989-1991 (co-edited
with Anthony Bogues, 1994)) and Organizations and Social Actors in the
Regionalization Process in Elements of Regional Integration: The Way
Forward Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica, 1998. Judith speaks and writes Spanish reasonably well. |