Empowerment
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- Adolescent girls and migration in the developing world
- Population Council, USA, 2013
- Migration is transforming our world: by the end of this decade, most developing countries will have more people living in cities than in rural areas. Most migrants are in their early to mid-20s. Substantial numbers of adolescent girls...
- Making Care Visible: Women’s unpaid care work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya
- D. Budlender; R. Moussie / ActionAid International, 2013
- This report documents Action Aid's multi-country programme on women's unpaid care work. The programme, which is based in Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda, recognises that while all women, regardless of class, race, caste and ethn...
- Empowerment: a journey not a destination
- Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
- Pathways of Women’s Empowerment is an international research and communications programme that began in 2006. Its focus has been on understanding and influencing efforts to bring about positive change in women’s lives. Thi...
- Designing and implementing gender-sensitive community-based adaptation projects
- K. Vincent; L. Wanjiru; A. Aubry / United Nations Development Programme, 2010
- This guidebook for designing and implementing gender-sensitive community-based adaptation (CBA) projects draws on the experiences of the United Nations Development Programme - Global Environment Facility (UNDP-GEF) CBA programme from ...
- Brief on the global campaign to engage men as caregiving partners to promote better maternal health and sexual and reproductive health, reduce gender-based violence and promote child development and economic empowerment for women
- Instituto PROMUNDO, 2012
- Of all the topics discussed in engaging men in gender equality, the issue of men and caregiving, including men’s involvement in maternal health, remains conspicuously absent and underexplored. Indeed, one of the core and enduring...
- Program H and Program M: engaging young men and empowering young women to promote gender equality and health
- C. Ricardo / Pan American Health Organization, 2010
- Program H and Program M were developed to engage youth in critical reflections on gender and help them build skills to act in more empowered and equitable ways. The complementary interventions use educational workshops, community outr...
- Feminist perspectives towards transforming economic power: topic 1 food sovereignty
- P. Caro / Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011
- This article, written by Chilean feminist researcher Pamela Caro presents key elements of the concept of food sovereignty. She unpacks the history of food sovereignty from its origins in the experience of the peasants’ movement, ...
- Mainstreaming gender in micro-finance service provision: synthesis paper
- L. Mayoux 2010
- Micro-finance programmes reach millions of people worldwide, not only giving women and men access to savings and credit, but bringing them together regularly in organised groups. Through their contribution to women’s ability to e...
- Brief 11 - Women’s economic empowerment in the Arab region: how chronic development challenges and the global crises triggered people’s revolutions
- K. Mohamadieh / Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011
- Brief 11: Women’s economic empowerment in the Arab region provides an analysis on how the global crises has contributed to exacerbating an already deteriorated context in the Arab region which is marked by political repression, l...
- Women exiting chronic poverty: empowerment through equitable control of households’ natural resources
- J. Espey / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2011
- This paper examines the relationship between women’s vulnerability to poverty and their management of domestic natural resources. It finds that gendered experiences of poverty often derive from discriminatory social institutions ...
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