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  BRIDGE Report 40: Gender and empowerment: definitions, approaches and implications for policy

  BRIDGE, 1997

  This report aims to unpack such questions as: what is women's empowerment? If women are empowered, does that mean that men have less power?The authors argue that empowerment has become a new "buzzword" in international development language but is often poorly understood.
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  Empowering women migrant workers

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  This document presents information on UNIFEM’s Regional Programme on Empowering Women Migrant Workers in Asia which seeks to empower women migrant workers from a gender and rights-based development perspective.
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  Gender: the missing component of the response to climate change

  Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2006

  Analysing the gender dimension of climate change and the policies that have been established to mitigate and adapt to its impacts, this report points out that gender aspects have generally been neglected in international climate policy. This is a major concern given the emphasis of development policy making on general equity issues. Climate policies are not by default gender-neutral.
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  Women's empowerment: an annotated bibliography

  BRIDGE, 2006

  This bibliography gathers together a range of materials which discuss women’s empowerment from varied perspectives in order to provide an accessible introduction to key concepts, approaches and debates.This document contributes towards a five-year research programme consortium (RPC), Pathways of Women’s Empowerment, launched by the Institute for Development Studies in March 2006 and funded by t
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  Women’s empowerment through sustainable micro-finance: rethinking "best practice"

  Sustainable Micro-finance for Women's Empowerment, 2006

  This paper challenges assumptions about the automatic benefits of micro-finance for women. It argues that financial indicators of access – such as women’s programme membership and size of loans – cannot be used as indicators of women’s empowerment. High repayment levels by women do not necessarily indicate that women have used the loans themselves.
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  Report of the learning oriented assessment on gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment strategies in Rwanda

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002

  This report is based on a Learning-Oriented Assessment Mission on Gender Mainstreaming and Women’s Empowerment in post-Conflict Rwanda. The Assessment brought together bilateral and multilateral organisations with national governmental and nongovernmental partners to review progress towards gender equality.
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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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  Is microfinance a "magic bullet" for women’s empowerment?: analysis of findings from South Asia

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2005

  Debates around the effectiveness of microfinance tend to be ranged across two poles, with the "evangelists" making impossible claims about its potential to alleviate poverty and empower women, and the sceptics using particular shortcomings of microfinance as evidence of its overall ineffectiveness.This paper seeks to examine the empirical evidence on the impacts of microfinance with respect to
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  Health, Empowerment, Rights and Accountability (HERA) action sheet: sexual rights

  International Women's Health Coalition, 1999

  This action sheet on sexual rights is one of a series on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), published by the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), which define central concepts in SRHR and identify actions needed.
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  Sexual rights: much has been said, much remains to be resolved

  Siyanda, 2002

  Presented as a lecture in the Sexuality, Health and Gender Seminar at the Department of Social Sciences, Public Health School, Columbia University, USA, this paper revisits the ongoing debate on human rights and sexuality, focusing on United Nations (UN) negotiations.

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