Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Sub-Saharan Countries Nasim Basiri EFL University‚ India ‚ 2013 nasimbasiri@gmail.com[->0] INTRODUCTION For centuries women were not treated equal to men in many ways. They were not allowed to own property‚ they did not have a Share in the property of their parents‚ they had no voting rights‚ they had no freedom to choose their work or job and so on. Now that we have come out of those dark days of oppression of women there is a need
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PAPER PRESENTATION ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND SELF HELP GROUPS BY Mrs. REBECCA THOMAS Lecturer in Commerce NES Ratnam College‚ Bhandup(W). WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND SELF HELP GROUPS Introduction Women and children‚ who represent more than two-thirds (67.7%) of the country’s total population‚ constitute the most important target group in the context of the present day developmental planning. Therefore their concerns are placed on the priority list of the country’s developmental agenda. For more
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Rashmi Bhat‚ Faculty‚ Department of Women’s Studies‚ N.M.K.R.V College for Women‚ Bangalore‚ and Ms. Jayalakshmi‚ Project Officer‚ Grama Vikas‚ Mulbagal‚ Kolar District‚ Karnataka. South India. July 3rd - 7th‚ 2002 Feminisation of Poverty and Empowerment of Women - An Indian Perspective & Experience I. Understanding Poverty: Poverty has been an issue of vital concern in India since independence. The pace of poverty reduction in the past decades - despite comprehensive and mammoth schemes - has
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Based on the case study of BRAC Community Empowerment Programme explain how community based platforms can be enhanced and utilized as a “bottom-up” strategy to achieve development outcomes. "The most critical issue with international development is getting the right resources to where they are needed most and ensuring those resources are being integrated in a sustainable manner. The greatest failure of international development to this day is the wasting of resources due to a lack of comprehensive
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Violence Against Women in Muslim Families: an Agenda for Muslim Women’s Empowerment Nasim Basiri Kofi Annan‚ Secretary-General of the United Nations‚ declared in a 2006 report posted on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) website that: Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten‚ coerced into sex‚ or otherwise abused in
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The Supernatural as a Means of Protagonist Empowerment in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende IB A1 English HL World Literature Comparative Essay Word Count: 1496 Keri-Anne Murray Candidate #: 003072-058 World Literature Comparative Essay 1 In Like Water for Chocolate and The House of the Spirits‚ respective authors Laura Esquivel and Isabel Allende use a connection with the supernatural to empower the protagonists in three
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destruction and was in general a conflict of monumental proportions. However‚ as the cliché goes‚ there is a silver lining to every storm cloud. In the case of the Great War‚ the silver lining refers to the great leaps forward made in women’s empowerment and involvement in society because of the advent of the war‚ which forced them into positions previously never considered by either gender. World War One provided women with the perfect opportunity to demonstrate to a male-dominated society that
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January - 2006 Empowerment of Indian Women: A Challenge of 21st Century Dr. Dasarathi Bhuyan Women s empowerment is a new phrase in the vocabulary of gender literature. The phrase is used in two broad senses i.e. general and specific. In a general sense‚ it refers to empowering women to be self-dependent by providing them access to all the freedoms and opportunities‚ which they were denied in the past only because of their being women . In a specific sense‚ women empowerment refers to enhancing
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Question 1 Explain the concepts of empowerment‚ self-managed teams‚ and cross-functional teams‚ and develop an essay that argues for their inclusion in either a tall or flat organizational structure. Empowerment is the process of giving employees the authority to make important decisions and to be responsible for their outcomes. Empowerment should exist in tall organizational structure because if the size of the tall organizational structure is bigger is operating process or more tasks appear
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A Learning Organization leverages the initiative and innovation of their most valuable asset‚ the Employees - It embraces empowerment‚ creative thinking‚ calculated risk taking and even the “Maverick” principle. The Learning Organization effectively encourages the concept of asking for forgiveness instead of asking for permission. Employees continue to strive to increase their personal output and positive results on the job. The objective is to create an environment that will allow its employees
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