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‘I don’t care about their reactions’: agency and ICTs in women’s empowerment in Afghanistan [PDF]

, 2018
Gender justice and women’s empowerment are both an end and a goal of sustainable development, and information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) policies and monitoring needs to be informed by this understanding.
Amin, Sara N., Hussain, Faheem
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Measuring citizen frames and their integration in the international policy process: a hybrid BERTopic modelling approach

Frontiers in Political Science
Governments and international organizations are exploring new ways of engaging citizens in the policy design process, however scalable ways to test whether citizen frames appear in resulting policies documents remain limited. We present a hybrid BERTopic
Victoria Ustenko, Matthijs Fakkel, Susan Witt, Padma Rao Sahib, Srividya Sheshadri, Rao R. Bhavani   +5 more
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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
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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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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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Reproductive Health and Bodily Integrity in Tanzania [PDF]

, 2017
Several policy initiatives support the empowerment of women to improve their reproductive health. Little is known, however, about the inverse effect that reproductive health might have on women’s empowerment.
Afnan-Holmes, Akker, Alio, Arestoff, Bank, Baulch, Beegle, Blackstone, Blanc, Blanc, Boserup, Burden, Béhague, Cameron, Carroon, Crissman, Das Gupta, Dhont, Dixon-Mueller, Ellis, Fitzgerald, Fledderjohann, Flood, Frøen, Haram, Hattori, Haws, Heazell, Hindin, Hindin, Holmboe-Ottesen, Kabeer, Kabeer, Larsen, Larsen, Lee-Rife, Mabsout, Malhotra, Mason, Mathur, McCloskey, NBS, NBS, NBS, Nussbaum, Olorunsaiye, Outes-Leon, Pallitto, Patosalmi, Plummer, Pulerwitz, Robeyns, Rogers, Rouchou, Ryder, Schuler, Sen, Shimamoto, Storeng, Stöckl, UNPOPIN, UN-DEAS, and UNFPA, Vyas, Vyas, Wembah-Rashid, Westeneng, Wong, Ziliak   +66 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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The Social Relations Approach, empowerment and women factory workers in Malaysia [PDF]

, 2016
This article discusses the empowerment of women factory workers in Malaysia through the lens of Kabeer’s Social Relations Approach. The approach offers an institutional analysis of how gender inequality is produced and calls for the overall terms of ...
Ahmad A, Broadbent K, Chee Din M, Crinis V, Duelli Klein R, Fernandez J, Graham H, Ismail R, Ismail R, Jomo KS, Kabeer N, Kabeer N, Kabeer N, Lim L, Low KL, Mies M, Ng C, Oakley A, Ramasamy N, Sivalingam G, Stanley L, Stanley L, Sultana A, Wang LK, Westmarland N, Wye CK   +25 more
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Fostering Innovation: Streamlining Magnetocaloric Materials Research by Digitalization

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Magnetocaloric cooling (MCE) is an environmentally friendly refrigeration method with great potential. Optimizing MCE materials involves the preparation and screening of large quantities of samples, which in turn generates a large amount of data. A digitalization approach is presented that uses ontologies, knowledge graphs, and digital workflows to ...
Simon Bekemeier, Moritz Blum, Luana Caron, Alisa Chirkova, Philipp Cimiano, Basil Ell, Inga Ennen, Michael Feige, Maik Gaerner, Thomas Hilbig, Andreas Hütten, Günter Reiss, Tapas Samanta, Sonja Schöning, Christian Schröder, Lennart Schwan, Chris Taake, Martin Wortmann   +17 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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