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Women and liveability – Best practices of empowerment from Indonesia

Geografia: Malaysian journal of society and space, 2017

How to survive and make ends meet and how to improve the quality of life are daily and persistent livelihood issues and liveability challenges preoccupying disadvantaged communities in underdeveloped and developing countries. In economically restrictive and HIV hazardous Lesotho life struggles could be complex and challenging for womenfolks who more often than not are left on their own to cope with daily liveability problems. Through examining the findings from secondary information sources this paper illustrates three cases of how women helped make the best of empowerment projects geared to make the livelihood and liveability of themselves, their family and community better and more meaningful. It also highlights the institutional and organizational traits that were also the success factors of the empowerment projects.

Women and liveability – Best practices of empowerment from India

How to survive and make ends meet and how to improve the quality of life are daily and persistent livelihood issues and liveability challenges preoccupying disadvantaged communities in underdeveloped and developing countries. In politically volatile and environmentally hazardous India life struggles could be complex and challenging for womenfolk who more often than not are left on their own to cope with daily liveability problems. Through examining the findings from secondary information sources this paper illustrates three cases of how women helped make the best of empowerment projects geared to make the livelihood and liveability of themselves, their family and community better and more meaningful. It also highlights the institutional and organizational traits that were the success factors of the empowerment projects.

Women and liveability – Best practices of empowerment from Ethiopia

Geografia: Malaysian journal of society and space, 2017

How to survive and make ends meet and how to improve the quality of life are daily and persistent livelihood issues and liveability challenges preoccupying disadvantaged communities in underdeveloped and developing countries. In economically restrictive and HIV hazardous Lesotho life struggles could be complex and challenging for womenfolks who more often than not are left on their own to cope with daily liveability problems. Through examining the findings from secondary information sources this paper illustrates three cases of how women helped make the best of empowerment projects geared to make the livelihood and liveability of themselves, their family and community better and more meaningful. It also highlights the institutional and organizational traits that were also the success factors of the empowerment projects.

Empowering Women: Empowering Bangladesh

2019

Women around the world are resourceful economic agents, overcoming stubborn, gender-based barriers to advance the health, education, and economic survival of their families. Women empowerment is a developmental and most argumentative issue around the world. Empowerment of women is a universal concept and a multi-dimensional approach and it is not an easy or straightforward process. It's time being process of which awareness, alternatives, resources, voice, agency, and participation of women. Women empowerment depends on the country's cultural, social, economic and political aspects. Half of the populations of Bangladesh are women and their economic participation has increased significantly. The purpose of this study is to explore the women's' empowerment situation and overall development through equal and active participation in the socioeconomic activities in the perspective of Bangladesh. This study also identified the factors that facilitate the improvement of women empowerment through reviewing the literature which focuses on the empowerment of women.

Women's empowerment revisited: A case study from Bangladesh

Development in Practice, 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. The article discusses theoretical issues related to the measurement of women's empowerment, and describes findings from a recent study in the villages exploring the current salience of indicators developed for a 1992 survey. In the article we discuss the types of social, economic, and political change that affect the measurement of women's empowerment; propose and explain a new set of indicators for the rural Bangladesh setting; and discuss implications for measuring women's empowerment in other settings.

Empowerment of Women in Bangladesh: Impediments and Recommendations

Empowerment of Women is one of the topics which is frequently discussed in recent times all around the world. Women are making their entrances in different sectors side by side men which was previously unimaginable. This particular research will investigate the impediments that stand in the path of empowerment of women in Bangladesh. In addition, this study will recommend some views that will mitigate the impact of the impediments standing in its way. Moreover, this study is going to discuss the social status of women in Bangladesh where the window of empowerment of women is narrow. Finally, this research will surely motivate the empowerment of women in Bangladesh and create consciousness inside them so that they get the impetus to empower themselves in personal, social, economic and political sectors. This research is the combination ofall the previously done study concerned to empowerment of women.

Women empowerment in Rajshahi, Bangladesh

United Nations Development Plan (UNDP), 2016

Across the UPPR Project in Bangladesh, a focus has been on developing the capacity of women and their leadership skills. Women of Rajshashi have been empowered through an intensive series of activities that has involved –without being limited to– mobilising and saving, mapping and surveying, managing finances (collecting savings and distributing loans), managing community contractsfor the settlement improvement fund, selecting and distributing social economic funds, developing community action plans and participating in elections within the Community Development Committee (CDC) system.

Women and liveability – Best practices of empowerment from Nigeria

Geografia: Malaysian journal of society and space, 2017

How to survive and make ends meet and how to improve the quality of life are daily and persistent livelihood issues and liveability challenges preoccupying disadvantaged communities in underdeveloped and developing countries. In economically restrictive and HIV hazardous Lesotho life struggles could be complex and challenging for womenfolks who more often than not are left on their own to cope with daily liveability problems. Through examining the findings from secondary information sources this paper illustrates three cases of how women helped make the best of empowerment projects geared to make the livelihood and liveability of themselves, their family and community better and more meaningful. It also highlights the institutional and organizational traits that were also the success factors of the empowerment projects.

Women and liveability – Best practices of empowerment from Kenya

2017

How to survive and make ends meet and how to improve the quality of life are daily and persistent livelihood issues and liveability challenges preoccupying disadvantaged communities in underdeveloped and developing countries. In economically restrictive and HIV hazardous Lesotho life struggles could be complex and challenging for womenfolks who more often than not are left on their own to cope with daily liveability problems. Through examining the findings from secondary information sources this paper illustrates three cases of how women helped make the best of empowerment projects geared to make the livelihood and liveability of themselves, their family and community better and more meaningful. It also highlights the institutional and organizational traits that were also the success factors of the empowerment projects.