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  Fundacion Colectivo Cabildeo – Cartillas Informativas - Democracia Intercultural

  2010

  The Colectivo Cabildeo is a group of women based in Bolivia, South America, that aim to generate spaces for discussion, research, capacity building and communications among women and with other social actors for women’s advancement and empowerment.
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  Liberal vs Liberating Empowerment: Conceptualising Women’s Empowerment from a Latin American Feminist Perspective

  Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2008

  What is empowerment and how does it manifest in Latin America? This paper examines feminist conceptualisations of empowerment and how the process is believed to unfold. It outlines two basic approaches to conceptualising empowerment: ‘liberal’ and ‘liberating’.
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  Los derechos de las mujeres en clave feminista: Experiencias del Cladem

  Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru, 2009

  In 2009, the Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights) (CLADEM) celebrated 20 years of fighting for women’s rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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  2006 Report: A Look at Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women In Latin America and the Caribben

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2007

  What progress has been made in Latin America and the Caribbean towards achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in relation to gender equality and women's empowerment?
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  Gender, Power and Social Justice

  L’Harmattan, 2003

  "Cahiers Genre et Développement is a collection of reference documents and original articles in French, designed for a wide audience, especially professionals. They consist of theoretical and sectoral studies, tools for planning, data, bibliographies and useful addresses.
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  Evaluating the Empowerment of Marginalised Women: Reflections on Development Projects in Poor Countries

  Association TOMBANA, 2003

  Strengthening women's 'empowerment' is currently one of the main objectives of many development interventions in the South. This article attempts to study how the results and the impact of a development project or programme can be evaluated in terms of empowerment.
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  Breaking the Shackles: Women's Empowerment in Oxfam Australia's Sri Lanka Program

  Oxfam Australia, 2009

  Oxfam Australia’s Sri Lanka programme decided in the early 1990s to focus on the poorest of the poor, which included making a conscious effort to empower women and promote gender equality, as well as working closely with community-based organisations (CBOs).
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  Conditional cash transfers: a ‘pathway to women’s empowerment’?

  Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2008

  This paper critically examines Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs), a development intervention which provides mothers of school-age children in extreme poverty with a cash subsidy conditional on their children's attendance at school and health clinics. The paper uses evaluations of CCTs in order to assess the evidence for their claim to empower women.
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  Information and communication technologies for women’s socio-economic empowerment

  World Bank, 2009

  The advancement of ICTs has brought new opportunities for both knowledge sharing and knowledge gathering for both women and men. This report provides an overview of some of the issues relating to women and Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) in the developing world in contrast to the developed world.
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  Paid work, women's empowerment and gender justice: critical pathways of social change

  London School of Economics, 2008

  This paper explores the contradictions that characterise debates about the relationship between paid work and women's empowerment. It suggests that this absence of consensus appears to reflect both differences of context and changes in the social meaning of work over time.

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