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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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  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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  Discussing Women's Empowerment: Theory and Practice

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2001

  In October 2000, a conference was held in Sweden to create a forum for development practitioners and researchers to discuss the latest debates on gender and power.
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  Changing Gender Practices within the Household: A Theoretical Perspective

  SAGE Publications, 2004

  While much attention has been focused on transforming gender relations in the public sphere, changes in the domestic sphere have been less fully addressed in the theoretical literature. This paper explores the idea of ?doing gender? - understood as the interactions between men and women in the domestic sphere which bring about transformations in gender relations.
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  Development, Crisis, and Alternative Visions: Third World Women's Perspectives

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 1990

  Third World countries are increasingly forced to rely on internal resource mobilisation to make up for sharp reductions in external aid and resources. Alongside this, development processes are often indifferent to the interests and needs of the poor.
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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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  Policy Arena. Assessing Women's Empowerment: Towards a Conceptual Framework

  Routledge, 2005

  When policymakers and practitioners decide that 'empowerment'? usually of women or the poor - is a development goal, what do they mean? And how do they determine the extent to which it has been achieved? Despite empowerment having become a widely used term, there is no universally accepted method for measuring and tracking changes.
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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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  Creating Spaces of Resistance: Development NGOs and their Clients in Ghana, India and Mexico

  Blackwell Synergy, 2004

  Development NGOs have been accused by some of being new instruments of control, domesticated by the neo-liberal project. This paper argues, however, that although the majority of women's NGOs have been co-opted to serve mainstream development agendas, such groups nevertheless do bring women together away from men, and create social spaces for women to set their own priorities.

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