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  Education as a Means for Empowering Women

  Routledge, London, 2002

  Education is often seen as the key to women's empowerment. This chapter discusses how the concept of empowerment has been applied in formal schooling with young students, and in non-formal education programmes with mostly adult populations.
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  Placing Gender Equity in the Family Centre Stage: Use of 'Kala Jatha' Theatre

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  Women's empowerment does not necessarily take place when incomes are generated, when livelihoods are enhanced or when groups are formed. This is because within families and households, hierarchies and structures do not alter. In fact, public interventions which result in new social activity or new avenues of income generation can actually accentuate tensions within households.
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  2004 ZIM: Comprehensive Review of Gender Issues in the Education Sector

  2004

  In Zimbabwe, key indicators on enrolment, access to, and completion in education show stagnation in educational development between 1990 and 2001. Within this, serious disparities and inequalities are revealed with gender being a key contributory factor.
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  Life Skills, Sexual Maturation and Sanitation: What's (not) Happening in our Schools? An Explanatory Study from Zimbabwe

  Women's Law Centre, University of Zimbabwe, 2004

  Education is a key part of development for both men and women and also for the emancipation of women. Yet in Zimbabwe, although girls start at near parity with boys in terms of entry into primary school, they suffer much higher rates of attrition. Boys also drop out of school and do not attain the maximum levels of education.
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  Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY): providing social support, savings, and microcredit opportunities for young women in areas with high HIV prevalence

  Population Council, USA, 2006

  Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY) was a multiphase microfinance initiative which aimed to reduce adolescents' vulnerabilities to adverse social and reproductive health outcomes, including HIV infection, by improving their livelihoods options.
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  Human development and Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) –Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women: mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  This report examines the status of women in Sudan, using the third Millennium Development Goal of women's empowerment as the framework. It begins with an overview of some key definitions, including gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment.
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  Fifth Periodic Report on Implementation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Japan)

  Government of Japan, 2002

  Japan's 5th periodic report on the implementation of the ?Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women? (CEDAW) covers the period May 1998 to April 2002. It was put together in consultation with a wide range of civil society groups.
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  Citizenship: towards a feminist synthesis

  Feminist Review, 1997

  This article outlines how citizenship can be used as a political and theoretical tool by combining 'rights' and 'participation'. Participation in social, economic, cultural and political decision-making provides a more dynamic and active form of rights in which people work together to improve their quality of life.
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  Women, citizenship and difference

  Feminist Review, 1997

  In a globalising world where the role of the local, the national and the global is shifting, the meanings of citizenship are also changing. This article presents some new theoretical discussions on gender and citizenship.
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  A Gender Review in Education, Turkey 2003

  2003

  Boys benefit more than girls from educational services in Turkey. Progress was made with the implementation of the Basic Education Program 1997, which saw girls' enrolment at all levels of education increase. However, girls still face problems of access to education due mostly to physical distance, and financial and social barriers.

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