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Empowering pastoralist women through social innovations in Somali and Afar regions of Ethiopia

Social Sciences and Humanities Open
Ensuring sustainable development in Africa necessitates empowering women through different initiatives, including social innovations. This is because the existing gender-based disparities and resultant inequalities are evident in Africa, limiting women's
Tafesse Matewos, Melisew Dejene, Semeredin Yimer   +2 more
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Draft Declaration: Women's Economic Empowerment for Peacebuilding [PDF]

, 2013
This document presents the members of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission. Assembled at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 26 September 2013, under the chairmanship of Her Excellency Vesna Pusi?, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister ...

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National Disability Insurance Scheme and Quality of Life Among Carers of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia: A Thematic Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder in Australia have increased considerably in recent years. The current study investigated how the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) impacts quality of life (QoL) among carers of children with autism spectrum disorder.
Jesse Gerhard, Sharon L. Grant
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive change in women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2010
Rural women in Bangladesh have limited access to resources and public spheres due to socio-cultural restrictions. Women suffer from severe discrimination, due partly to a lack of access to information. Information and communication and technologies (ICT)
Armarego, J., Laizu, Z., Sudweeks, F.
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Intimate Partner Financial Abuse Across Public and Private Systems

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article maps the ways that intimate partner financial abuse presents, and the range of public and private entities involved in its perpetration. It reports on an analysis of submissions by individuals to the Australian parliamentary inquiry into the Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse.
Adrienne Byrt, Kay Cook, Rachael Burgin, Georgina Dimopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women's Empowerment: What Works? [PDF]

Journal of International Development, 2016
AbstractWith radical roots in the 1980s, women's empowerment is now a mainstream development concern. Much of the narrative focuses on instrumental gains—what women can do for development rather than what development can do for women. Empowerment is treated as a destination reached through development's equivalent of motorways: programmes rolled out ...
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Journeys of Transformation: A Training Manual for Engaging Men as Allies in Women's Economic Empowerment [PDF]

, 2012
This manual provides group education sessions for engaging men as allies in women's economic empowerment. It emerges from CARE's experience, in Rwanda and elsewhere, that women's economic empowerment works, but that it can be made to work better and to ...
Gary Barker, Henny Slegh, Piotr Pawlak
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Women's empowerment: What works and why? [PDF]

, 2014
Revisiting foundational feminist work on the concept of empowerment from the 1980s and 1990s, this paper draws on the findings of a multi-country research programme, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', to explore pathways of positive change in women's ...
Cornwall, Andrea
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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy, Bhiamie Williamson, Jesse Williams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source