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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
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Micro-finance, women’s empowerment and fertility decline in Bangladesh: How important was women’s agency? [PDF]

, 2016
As Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen has argued “[Bangladesh’s development achievements have] important lessons for other countries across the globe, [in particular a focus on] reducing gender inequality”. A major avenue through which this emphasis has been
Barker G., Basu A. M., Bledsoe C. H., Cleland J. H., Connelly M. J., Cornwall A., Dyson T., Hartmann B., Khandker S. R., Kishore S., Latif M. A., Livi-Bacci M., Maren Duvendack, Overholt C., Palmer-Jones R. W., Presser H., Rahman M. M., Richard Palmer-Jones, Robertson T., Schoumaker B., Shapiro D., Vaessen J., World Bank, World Bank   +23 more
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Exploring the impact of temple interaction and proximity on nature connectedness: A case study of Śrī Dharma Śāstā Temple, India

Sustainable Futures
In the Anthropocene era, where human-driven environmental challenges threaten the ecological balance, understanding the key factors that influence nature connectedness is essential. This study examines the potential role of the Śrī Dharma Śāstā Temple in
MV Mukil, Tarek Rashed, Bhavani Rao R
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Power and rights in the community: paralegals as leaders in women's legal empowerment in Tanzania [PDF]

, 2018
What can an analysis of power in local communities contribute to debates on women’s legal empowerment and the role of paralegals in Africa? Drawing upon theories of power and rights, and research on legal empowerment in African plural legal systems, this
Amartya Sen, Ambreena Manji, Ambreena Manji, Amrita Kapur, Andrea Cornwall, Andrea Cornwall, Ann Whitehead, Anne M O Griffiths, Ben Golder, Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, Celestine Nyamu-Musembi, Chris Maina Peter, CLEP, Dean MacCannell, Elin Henrysson, Eva Diehl, Firoze Manji, Florence Butegwa, Giselle Corradi, Godfrey Massay, Grace A Musila, Grace A Musila, Gwenaelle Dereymaeker, Helen Dancer, Helen Dancer, Ineke Meene van de, Ingunn Ikdahl, Irene W Anying, Janine M Ubink, Janine M Ubink, Janine M Ubink, Janine M Ubink, Judith Butler, Krista Jacobs, Lars Waldorf, Laura Nader, Lorenzo Cotula, LSF, LSF, Magdalena Sepúlveda Carmona, Mahmood Mamdani, Martin Chanock, Mauro Cappelletti, Michel Foucault, Naila Kabeer, Naila Kabeer, Pilar Domingo, Rie Odgaard, Sally Falk Moore, Shelly Grabe, Stephen Golub, Stephen Golub, Susan F Hirsch, Sylvia Tamale, Sylvia Tamale, Valerie Mueller, Vivek Maru, WLAC   +58 more
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Additional file 1: of Conceptualizing pathways linking womenâ s empowerment and prematurity in developing countries

, 2017
Open peer review. (PDF 223 kb)
Afulani, Patience, Altman, Molly, Musana, Joseph, Sudhinaraset, May   +3 more
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How have women been empowered by gender-focussed development projects in post-Taliban Afghanistan? : reviewing the literature which incorporates the critical consideration of two gender focussed development projects : a research report presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of International Development in Development Studies at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2014
This research report examines the empowerment approach within the Gender and Development (GAD) discussion, providing an emphasis on women’s empowerment as an instrument of post-conflict reconstruction in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
McMillan, Robert Melville
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Práticas de empoderamento feminino na América Latina

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2016
Through a brief presentation of the debates regarding the concept of women’s empowerment and the insertion of the term in the perspective of gender studies, this article presents a bibliographical review of the women’s empowerment practices in Latin ...
Paloma Abelin Saldanha Marinho, Hebe Signorini Gonçalves   +1 more
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Women's empowerment and child nutrition in South-Central Asia; how important is socioeconomic status?

SSM: Population Health, 2021
Women's empowerment has been identified as an important strategy for improving children's nutrition outcomes in many settings. Empowerment indexes that are built from cross-country routine surveys are increasingly being developed, and further ...
Michael Nnachebe Onah
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Measuring the determinants of women’s empowerment in agricultural index in Bangladesh: application of the structural equation modeling approach

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The study investigates the determinants of women’s empowerment utilizing data from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey 2018, specifically through the construction of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index. Using structural equation modeling,
Paresh Kumar Sarma, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Ismat Ara Begum, Dilshad Zahan Ethen, Farzana Yeasmin, Lin Crase, Andrew M. McKenzie   +6 more
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Program Pemberdayaan Perempuan Berkelanjutan di Desa Gemel Kabupaten Lombok Tengah

Jurnal Humanitas: Katalisator Perubahan dan Inovator Pendidikan, 2022
NTB has a high number of cases of early marriage, reaching 56.07% in 2018-2019. To support program independence and women's competitiveness in Gemel Village, Central Lombok District, the community established a Women's Empowerment School as the Head of ...
Aldi Gumuruh Wicaksono, Sekar Arrum Permata, Abdul Rahman   +2 more
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