Empowerment
BRIDGE publications
This report - consisting of an overview report and annotated bibliography - explores the dominant analysis taking hold around women's economic empowerment and seeks to promote a nuanced understanding of the gendered barriers that prevent some women from benefiting from economic opportunities or from being empowered despite access to these opportunities.
Documents on Empowerment (166)
Author:
S. Bathge,
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Jan 2010
How is women’s economic empowerment linked to successful climate mitigation and adaptation? Womenare particularly susceptible to climate change and poverty and often lack financial assets and decisionmaking power. For example, ...
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Author:
K. Raworth,
Oxfam, Jan 2008
Bangladesh will face more frequent and severe flooding due to climate change. Consequently, in the southwest of the country CARE has worked closely with local organisations to help communities – ...
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Author:
B. Rodenberg,
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), Jan 2009
Gender concerns and adaptation approaches need to be mainstreamed into the processes of climate and development frameworks and policies, as they are currently largely blind to both issues. An analysis ...
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, Jan 2010
This brief on adaptation, gender and women’s empowerment is part of a series on CARE’s climate change activities. Recognising that many women lack adequate rights, resources and power for responding ...
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Author:
S. Turrall (ed),
Knowledge Services, IDS, Jan 2012
Gender justice and ending hunger are closely entwined, interdependent goals. Solving hunger now and in the future involves challenging the current global development model which permits – and is driven ...
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