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  HIV/AIDS-stigma and violence reduction intervention manual

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2006

  This manual, developed in India, discusses how participatory learning and action (PLA) can be applied to combatting violence and stigma around HIV/AIDS. Two new tools are developed for this purpose, building on PLA: community-led action research, and transformatory workshops.
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  Framework for the integration of women in APEC

  Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, 2005

  APEC activities related to trade and investment liberalisation and facilitation and economic and technical cooperation are closely inter-linked and have major implications for women. Women are recognised as critical to the achievement of sustainable economic development in the region - and women's unpaid work constitutes a major contribution to the economy.
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  Best practice guidelines for creating a culture of gender equality in the private sector

  Commission on Gender Equality, South Africa, 1998

  This guide is designed to highlight and promote the involvement of private business in achieving gender equality, including business leaders, policymakers, human resource managers and other business specialists.
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  Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996

  Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000

  This analysis of Venezuelan women's organising traces a sixty year struggle to democratise political practice and represent women's interests. It addresses some of the prevailing issues of Latin American democratisation: why did women have difficulty participating in regimes they fought to install, and how did they seek inclusion?
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  Empowering Women through the Policy Process: The Making of Health Policy in South Africa

  Oxford University Press, New York, 2000

  An important though poorly recognised way by which women can become empowered is by playing a role in the policy-making process itself.
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  Literacy, Gender and Social Agency: Adventures in Empowerment. A Research Report for ActionAid UK

  Department for International Development, UK, 2003

  The notion of 'empowering' poor and marginalised women has a great deal of commonsense appeal. It may seem obvious that anyone would benefit from increased self-confidence, the ability to act effectively in the public sphere, to control one's income, to plan for the future.
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  Measuring Women's Empowerment: Participation and Rights in Civil, Political, Social, Economic, and Cultural Domains

  Blackwell Synergy, 2005

  There have been many attempts to measure women's empowerment in the development field, but these have had various shortcomings. There is confusion over concepts, a lack of disaggregated data and limited information on household dynamics. Measurements and indicators to date have focused more on civil and political rights, what are known as ?first generation?
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  Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World

  Routledge, 2002

  It is often assumed that women's empowerment is best pursued at a local level, through grassroots participatory methods. While a welcome antidote to the development community's long-standing preference for state-led, top-down development, this focus on the local tends to underplay the impact of global and national forces on prospects for poor people's - especially women's - empowerment.
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  Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women's Empowerment

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2001

  Empowerment is a process by which those who have been denied power gain power, in particular the ability to make strategic life choices. For women, these could be the capacity to choose a marriage partner, a livelihood or whether or not to have children.
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  The Meaning of Women's Empowerment: New Concepts from Action

  Harvard University Press, 1994

  Since the mid-1980s, the term empowerment has become popular in the development field, especially with reference to women. However, there is confusion as to what the term means among development actors. This paper analyses the concept of women's empowerment and outlines empowerment strategies based on insights gained through a study of grassroots programmes in South Asia.

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