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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Women in development"”.
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Sustainable Development of Women in Chadiza: A case of the Kampini Association
This report is the result of an evaluation on Kampini Women Development Association. It specifically looks at Kampini Area Development Association of Chadiza in Eastern Province, Zambia. The evaluation contains three levels of analysis. First, the communication structure in relation to decision …
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Women, development, and communities for empowerment: grassroots associations for change in Southwest Virginia
This is a qualitative study of women and change in the coalfields and nearby mining areas of Southwest Virginia in the Central Appalachian mountains, a peripheral region in a core country at the end of the twentieth century. Intensive interviews with working-class women in grassroots associations …
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An Analysis of the Social Action program and Education of Women in Pakistan
The report is organized into five chapters, as follows: • In Chapter I, I propose to research problems that women face in Pakistan resulting from gender inequalities. A review of the literature provides a framework for development that calls for a constant balancing of social, economic and …
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Gender and Water management: It's implications on Women empowerment
Gender mainstreaming in the water sector is being justified on grounds that it helps to empower women; therefore it furthers broader goals of equality within society, contributing to poverty alleviation and social inclusion. This study was done in two peri-urban areas of Lusaka, Zambia namely …
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Gender and Water management: It's implications on Women empowerment
Gender mainstreaming in the water sector is being justified on grounds that it helps to empower women; therefore it furthers broader goals of equality within society, contributing to poverty alleviation and social inclusion. This study was done in two peri-urban areas of Lusaka, Zambia namely …
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Empowered women in water management
Following South Africa's independence from apartheid rule, there has been progressive developments in policies that promote equity in all spheres including the water sector. Equality in the water sector is not only limited to water access, but also management of the water. This study investigated …
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Two Essays on Evaluation Challenges in Integrated Pest Management: An Evaluation Design for the Onion ipmPIPE and Identifying Women's Crops and Agricultural Technologies
The two papers in this thesis are aimed at solving problems in Integrated Pest Management project, practice, and program evaluations. In the first paper, an evaluation design is constructed for the Onion ipmPIPE website, an onion pest information website. The Bayesian decision theoretic approach …
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The apotheosis of the green revolution and the throes of landless peasant women in two Aegean villages of Turkey in the 1960s
… agrarian transition and the experiences of rural women in these processes have never lost their appeal for sociological study, although the studies have focused on the political economy of development and rural women in development in the 1960s and 1970s and have then shifted to microeconomics, …
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Empowering Women Food Vendors in Alleviation to Poverty : A Case Study of Mzizima Ward in Tanga
In 2002, the MUWAKO Women Group was formed with 20 women members. The group is situated in Mzizima ward at Mafuriko village in Tanga Town District about 5 km from Tanga Municipal City Council. The group has intended to increase the income level among women so as to improve the standard of living in …
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Female representivity in senior management in the public sector: a case study of Drakenstein municipality in the Western Cape
South Africa is undergoing a period of transition from Apartheid to democracy. In this process, redressing discriminatory factors (race and gender) is of utmost urgency and importance. The equity Act, and within this, affirmative action, are ways in which these isuses can be addressed. South Africa …
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Development and its discontents: NGOs, women and the politics of social mobilization in Bangladesh
… number of NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Bangladesh. My work focuses on micro-credit NGOs, the Grameen Bank model in particular, and on the strategy pursued by them to "empower poor women." I look at how the extension of credit to "poor women" intersects with existing gender and …
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Smallholder women empowerment: the case of Norwegian agricultural programme in Senanga, Zambia.
In Zambian agriculture, women generally perform most activities such as weeding, harvesting, stocking, marketing and processing than men who are largely involved in tillage. However, women are marginalized in terms of access to and ownership of productive assets. In response, government, civil …
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Gender and the difficulty of decolonizing development in Africa in the late 1960s and early 1970s : a Canadian effort for partnership among women
In the 1960s, Irene Spry served as the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada (FWIC) representative to the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW). In 1967 she accepted an offer to be the ACWW deputy president, a post that she held until the mid-1970s. During this time, the ACWW and its member …
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Gender, development and social change in Rote, eastern Indonesia
This thesis explores gender relations in the island of Rote in Indonesia. It examines Rotenese social organization and the role of women in development. In this case the researcher is of the same culture of the people being studied: the analysis is derived from social science informed by local …
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Exploration and harnessing of usable knowledge in interpretive participatory research : a case of women in the Zambian mining community
This qualitative iterative study is informed by a pragmatic application of participatory action research (PAR) methodology in the mining community of Chingola - Zambia. The inquiry was motivated by argument in the literature for better articulation, conceptualisation and implementation of PAR and …
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The role of rural women in sustaining small-scale community development, problems and successes: a case study of KwaNdaya Umbumbulu KwaZulu Natal
The purpose of this study was to examine the role played by rural women in development. KwaNdaya case study will be used to show their role. History has shown that rural community development programs in the past have been based on a variety of policy approaches, but many have not addressed women's …
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Women's participation in community development projects: the case of Khmu women in Laos
This thesis explores Khmu women‟s participation in community development projects in Luang Prabang Province, Lao PDR. Although the Khmu is the second largest ethnic group in Laos, they are also the poorest. Throughout the history of Laos, the Khmu have lacked political power, education and a role …