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A Study on Women's Empowerment through Enlargement of Learning Opportunity. [PDF]

, 1997
After the Fourth World Conference on Women (1995), the concept of "women's empowerment" is becoming popular gradually. But the work of developing learning opportunities for women's empowerment is not enough.
Kumagai, Shinnosuke, Sasaki, Masaharu, Shiraishi, Yoshitaka, Koike, Gengo   +3 more
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Ten years on: a comparative study of women-led civic participation and sustainable sanitation in rural India

Frontiers in Water
ObjectivesDespite the wide use of community-led sanitation programs in low- and middle-income countries, there is still limited evidence on whether behavioral gains remain embedded over long periods and what helps sustain them.
Srividya Sheshadri, Srividya Sheshadri, Sharanya Shriram, Radhika Radhakrishnan, Krishna R. Pillai, T. S. Shyamkumar, T. M. Megha, Sooraj Nair, Anagha Karuvallil, Rao R. Bhavani   +9 more
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Depressive symptoms among women in Raqqa Governorate, Syria: associations with intimate partner violence, food insecurity, and perceived needs

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2019
Background.Raqqa Governorate, Syria has recently been affected by overlapping conflicts related to the Syrian Civil war and occupation by ISIS, resulting in widespread displacement and disruption of economic livelihoods.
K. L. Falb, A. Blackwell, J. Stennes, M. Hussein, J. Annan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Women’s empowerment and child growth faltering in Ethiopia: evidence from the Demographic and Health Survey

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background Despite numerous national and international efforts to alleviate child growth faltering, it remains a global health challenge. There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of women’s empowerment in a wide range of ...
Alemayehu Gonie Mekonnen, Daniel Bogale Odo, Dabere Nigatu, Adem Sav, Kiya Kedir Abagero   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the impact of a combined nutrition counselling and cash transfer intervention on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh: a randomised control trial protocol

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction There is growing interest in assessing the impact of health interventions, particularly when women are the focus of the intervention, on women’s empowerment.
Ashraful Alam, Kingsley Emwinyore Agho, Tanvir Huda, Shams E Arifeen, Tazeen Tahsina, Sumithra Muthayya, Michael John Dibley, Jasmin Khan, Elizabeth K Kirkwood, John Frederick Hoddinott, Tracey Lea Laba, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Afrin Iqbal, Nazia Binte Ali, Saad Ullah, Nicholas Goodwin, M Munirul Islam, Gulshan Ara   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building capacity to measure long-term impact on women's empowerment: CARE's Women's Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative

, 2014
From 2010 to 2012, CARE USA implemented the Women's Empowerment Impact Measurement Initiative (WEIMI) to develop the necessary capacity, tools, guidance, and practice to measure and demonstrate the impact of its work on women's empowerment.
Karim, Nidal, Berkowitz, Leah, Gillingham, Sarah, Picard, Mary   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Behaviorally Adaptive and Inclusive Advanced Driver‐Assistance Systems

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Advanced driver‐assistance systems (ADASs) are mapped as evolving human‐centered, adaptive technologies linking sensing, driver monitoring, AR/HUD interfaces, patents, regulation, and inclusive design. The review identifies gaps in real‐world evidence, diverse‐driver validation, gaze metrics, and governance, outlining a roadmap for safer, behaviorally ...
Jana Skirnewskaja, Mardavij Roozbehani, Munther A. Dahleh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of community-level men's and women's inequitable gender norms on women's empowerment in India: A multilevel analysis using India's National Family Health Survey-5.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundLower empowerment of women is a critical social issue with adverse public health implications. In India, deeply ingrained gender norms shape a patriarchal structure that creates systemic disadvantages for women relative to men.
Lakshmi Gopalakrishnan, Alison El Ayadi, Nadia Diamond-Smith   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Women's empowerment revisited: a case study from Bangladesh

, 2010
This article explores the changing dimensions of women's empowerment over time in three Bangladesh villages where one of the authors has been conducting research since 1991.
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Farzana Islam, Islam, Farzana, Schuler, Sidney Ruth, Rottach, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Rottach   +5 more
core   +1 more source