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    A Rights-Based Approach to Development - Primer

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2002
    What is new about a rights-based approach to development? A rights-based approach to development builds on the experiences and expertise of two significant branches of the women’s movement: development and human rights.
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    Study on understanding SHG as programme for economic and social empowerment of women in India and LIC

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Initially visualised as a platform for financial intermediation, over the past decades, the self-help group (SHG) movement in India has emerged as an effective institution to address socio-economic empowerment of women.
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    Community based women’s empowerment initiatives in India

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Over the years, India has designed and implemented a number of targeted interventions for the poor including putting in place specific reservations for the disadvantaged to ensure equitable access to pro- poor central and state government programmes.
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    Safetipin – an overview: Active Learning Solutions

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Safetipin is a complete map-based mobile phone application which works to make our communities and cities safer by providing safety-related information collected by users and by trained auditors. Ithas been developed to encourage more people to be involved in safety of women and communities. It is a free app and will always remain so for users.
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    Progress Report: Safetipin Active Learning Solution

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Safetipin is a complete map-based mobile phone application which works to make our communities and cities safer by providing safety-related information collected by users and by trained auditors. It has been developed to encourage more people to be involved in safety of women and communities. It is a free app and will always remain so for users.
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    Ethiopian policymaker’s knowledge exchange visit to India: economic empowerment of women through self help groups and women Safety

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Self help groups (SHGs) have been instrumental in making women self-reliant and economically empowered. The scheme of micro-financing through SHGs create empowerment promoting conditions for women to move from positions of marginalisation within household decision making process and exclusion within community, to one of greater centrality, inclusion of voice.
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    Topic Guide: Women’s empowerment in a changing agricultural and rural context

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    This Topic Guide provides expert guidance on the elusive concept of ‘empowerment’ in agricultural and rural contexts. The Guide summarises and signposts current debates and thinking around women’s empowerment, and highlights that there are many ways to support or enable it.
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    Balancing paid work and unpaid care work to achieve women’s economic empowerment

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    This policy briefing argues that women's economic empowerment can lead to economic growth but it is important to understand it as not simply about labour force participation, but also about the choice to work, the choice of sector, location and working hours.
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    Women’s Land Rights in Pakistan: Policy Brief 22

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2010
    Women’s land ownership and control have important connections with their empowerment in Pakistan’s agricultural context. However, the link between these has largely remained unexplored; and there has been only a few research to determine how many women own or control land in Pakistan.
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    Reproductive health knowledge and perceptions: a rapid assessment in four villages in Sindh

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2014
    Indus Resource Center (IRC) is scaling up its project “Reproductive Health through Girls’ Education”, now revised as “Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes for Girls through Life Skills Based Education”.

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