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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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  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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  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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  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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  Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

  Oxfam, 2003

  One of the greatest barriers to achieving full citizenship rights for women is culture. If development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of ?culture? that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.
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  Women, nationality and citizenship

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  In the majority of cases, nationality is crucial to the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This has significant implications for those who do not have nationality such as stateless persons and refugees. However, looking at nationality also reveals numerous gender discriminations.
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  Adolescent Sexuality Education and Women's Visibility: the Linkages from the Girls? Power Initiative Nigeria Experience

  BRIDGE, 2005

  The Girl Power Initiative (GPI) in Nigeria takes girls through a three year sexuality education programme aimed at promoting their personal empowerment, sexual health and leadership skills. This paper incorporates the voices of GPI girls, GPI graduates, their parents and community members to demonstrate the impact of sex education on girls in Nigeria.
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  Gender equality and empowerment of women through ICT

  UN, 2005

  While there is recognition of the potential of ICT as a tool for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, a “gender divide” has also been identified, reflected in the lower numbers of women accessing and using ICT compared with men.

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