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  Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper proposes a framework for measuring empowerment (ME) comprising three core concepts: agency, opportunity structure, and degree of empowerment. In this regard, it defines empowerment as a person’s capacity to transform choices into desired actions and outcomes.
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  Women's empowerment: measuring the global gender gap

  World Economic Forum, 2005

  This report aims to measure the size of the gap between women and men in five critical areas:economic participation: equal remuneration for equal work;economic opportunity: access to the labour market that is not restricted to low-paid, unskilled jobspolitical empowerment: representation of women in decision-making structureseducational attainment: access to educationhealth
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  Taking action to improve women’s health through gender equality and women’s empowerment

  The Lancet, 2005

  This Lancet article outlines how the persistent disadvantages experienced by women act as barriers to improved health status. The authors argue that long-term and sustained improvements in women’s health can only be achieved by eliminating the inequalities and disadvantages that women and girls face in education and economic opportunity.
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  Empowering women and girls: challenges and strategies in gender equality

  World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2005

  This paper presents a collection of eight articles and case studies discussing the challenges, achievements and gaps in the empowerment of women and girls.
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  Population, reproductive health and the Millennium Development Goals: how the ICPD Programme of Action promotes poverty alleviation and human rights

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  In the year 2000, a set of goals to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world (afterwards called the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs) were adopted at the historic Millennium Summit at the United Nations.
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  Scaling up Kudumbashree: collective action for poverty alleviation and women's empowerment

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008. Kudumbashree was characterised by the creation of community development societies (CDS) and neighbourhood groups (NHG).
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  Women's empowerment, gender equality and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

  Women's Environment and Development Organization, 2004

  This information and action guide outlines the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and their implications for women.
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  Women's empowerment or the feminisation of debt?: towards a new agenda in African micro-finance

  One World Action, 2002

  This paper is based on discussions at the international conference “Women's empowerment or the feminisation of debt? Towards a new agenda in African micro-finance ” organised by One World Action.
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  Discussing women’s empowerment: theory and practice

  SIDA Studies, 2001

  Series of papers on women's empowerment that have both policy and methodological implications, presented at a SIDA workshop on 'Power, Resources and Culture in a Gender Perspective: Towards a Dialogue Between Gender Research and Development Practice'.The study includes:a discussion of experiences in trying to implement gender policies in development and research cooperationa concep
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  Documentation from the "Working Seminar on Methods for Measuring Women's Empowerment in a Southern African Context",2001

  Q Web Sweden: a Women's Empowerment Base, 2001

  The documentation answers the following questions: what methods or tools should NGOs and evaluators use to measure women's empowerment? What are the lessons learned of NGOs in a southern African context on measuring empowerment in rural Zimbabwe and among women micro entrepreneurs in Namibia? What are good indicators of empowerment among women in politics?

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