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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Women’s Empowerment"”.
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Women’s Empowerment and Community-Driven Development: Evidence from the Solomon Islands
… a community-driven development (CDD) program on women’s empowerment in the Solomon Islands. Originally launched in 2008, the CDD program is known as the Rural Development Program (RDP). The RDP aims to foster employment and income growth by focusing on participatory development, demand-responsive …
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Broadcasting Change: Radio Talk Shows, Education and Women’s Empowerment in Senegal
… radio talk shows as a platform for Senegalese women to debate social issues and identifies new directions and alternative avenues for their lives. Radio talk show in Senegal is a dynamic, flexible, and interactive tool for communication while highlighting the way women relate to and use this …
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Analysis of development policies for women’s empowerment and children’s welfare in MENA countries
The welfare of women and children is an essential ingredient of development. Therefore, this issue has been at the centre of policies concerning economic development. Since 2000, United Nation’s commitment to achieving development goals through gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving …
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Exploring the relationship between women’s empowerment and the internet in China: potentials and constraints
… of the relationship between the Internet and women’s empowerment in China. The theoretical framework of the study combines feminist theorisations of power – the core concept of empowerment – with insights from sociological perspectives on power and gender, as well as collective action theory. …
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EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT DISCOURSE: A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN’S NARRATIVES IN OMAN
… of the international development discourse of “women’s empowerment” through a case study of a “developing nation”, according to discursive categorizations. The research and analysis start from the perspective that all knowledge is socially constructed, that power structures and imbalances …
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Digital representation of gender equality: Analyzing the European Commission's social media strategy for women’s empowerment policies
… media strategy for promoting gender equality and women's empowerment. By analyzing key campaigns and digital content, the study evaluates the effectiveness of the Commission's communications in raising awareness, engaging audiences, and influencing public perception. The research employs content …
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Empirical Empowerment: how methods of evaluating women’s empowerment shape understanding of agricultural and nutritional development in Busoga, Uganda
… demand for standardised methods of measuring women’s empowerment; however, there is not yet consensus on best practices. This research critically examines an increasingly popular tool, the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (AWEA Index) and its applications in agricultural …
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Women’s empowerment and community development in Cameroon. A case study of NGOs and women’s organisations in the Northwest Province
… organisations in Cameroon are empowering women and promoting their role in the community development (CD) process. It investigates and analyses the causes of gaps between policy implementation at the grassroots level which prevents women benefiting fully from the programmes initiated by …
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Global poverty, women’s empowerment, and higher education pedagogies: a pedagogical case study on an international experiential education initiative for sustainable development
… explore pedagogical approaches to working with women living in extreme poverty to collaboratively develop educational initiatives to create the capabilities of both the students in higher education and the people living in poverty. My work follows the yearlong educational initiative as it pushes …
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Empowerment As Lived Experience: A Social Psychological Study of Empowerment Among Indian Women in a Development Context
The empowerment of women has become one of the cornerstones of contemporary development discourse. However, the frequency with which commitments to empowering women have been stated in international development policies and agendas has not been matched by adequate social psychological theorisation. …
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Employment equity as a measurement of perceived female empowerment in the railway safety regulator.
Women’s empowerment in the economy is considered important and the South African government, through various legislative interventions, is addressing this in different sectors. This study aimed to assess employment equity as a measure for women’s empowerment through understanding the respondents’ …
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“Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal
The recent history of women’s movement in India is dominated by discourses on roles of Non-governmental Organizations fostering women’s empowerment. This dissertation responds to the gaps in such discussions through a study of three women’s rights NGOs Sanlaap, Jabala and New Light in Kolkata, …
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Smallholder agriculture and food and nutrition security: a study from south-eastern Tigray, Ethiopia
… security in the pre-harvest season, supporting women’s empowerment to improved nutrition. Farming practices influence dietary diversity through a combination of production for ownconsumption and income effects. The study concludes that there is a need to develop policy and specific agricultural …
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Redefining the "Ideal Qatari Woman" in the 21st Century: The Role of Qatari Women in Nation Building and Branding
… of gender roles and norms by Qatari women themselves. Drawing from qualitative interview data and a range of primary sources (e.g., state-run media, institutional media, digital and print magazines, state laws and documents, etc.), this dissertation offers a comprehensive study of the …
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Grassroots Governance: Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Partnerships in an Immigrant City
… my findings indicate that the notion of women’s empowerment is nothing new or unfamiliar within Toronto’s diasporic communities; several of the immigrant anti-violence experts involved in this research credit their politicization and training “back home” as foundational to their …
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Experiences of women who have completed a job skills training programme and their ability to access employment opportunities
Women make up more than half the population of South Africa. Despite the countries’ legislation and policies to promote the rights and social position of women, many remain unemployed and disempowered, face ongoing discrimination and are not able to access resources including educational …
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The Women’s Legal Rights Index: A New Approach to Measuring Women’s Autonomy
<p>Existing indicators of women’s empowerment focus on women’s educational attainment. Yet theories of women’s empowerment in politics, in particular their role in democratization, extend beyond the consequences of education to require agency and autonomy in their lives. In the first chapter of …
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(re)presenting ourselves: creating an "oppositional black aesthetic" at a predominantly white institution: a photovoice project
… places an emphasis on the subjective nature of women’s empowerment through the use of a modified photovoice approach. Photovoice allows participants to use photographs in order to (re)present themselves and their experiences on their own terms. Second, taking photographs and combining them with …
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Essays in Economic Development and Political Empowerment
… using an Ordered Logistic regression. Chapter 3: Women Empowerment and Its Impact on Economic Growth: A Study of Latin America and the Caribbean Region. This quantitative study investigated how empowering women helped address and improve economic challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. A …
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Gender equity and health within Fair Trade certified coffee cooperatives in Nicaragua : tensions and challenges
… cooperatives. In particular, gender equity and women’s empowerment are considered to be integral considerations of this system but visible gender inequities within certified cooperatives persist. Responding to this apparent contradiction, local partners in Nicaragua articulated a need to better …
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