enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Association of African Women for Research and Development

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_African...

    AAWORD/AFARD was created after discussion between women scholars who met in Lusaka in Zambia in December 1976. [3] In its early years, AAWORD was supported by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). [4] In 1977, 1983 and 1988 it held general assemblies in Dakar.

  3. Women in Law & Development in Africa - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Law_&_Development...

    Women in Law & Development in Africa was established in February 1990 during a regional conference in Harare, Zimbabwe (with the theme of "Women, right and development: network for empowerment in Africa") [6] as a result of 6 women coming together with the idea for a pan-African organization after attending the World Women's Conference held in Nairobi, 1985. [7]

  4. Women in development - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Development

    The United Nations paper International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade, issued in 1980, recognized a number of Women in Development issues. It called for women to play an active role in all sectors and at all levels of the Program of Action adopted by the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for ...

  5. Women in Africa - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Africa

    The status of women in Africa is varied across nations and regions. For example, Rwanda is the only country in the world where women hold more than half the seats in parliament — 51.9% as of July 2019, [12] [13] but Morocco only has one female minister in its cabinet. [13]

  6. Gender and development - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_and_development

    The Women in Development approach was the first contemporary movement to specifically integrate women in the broader development agenda and acted as the precursor to later movements such as the Women and Development (WAD), and ultimately, the Gender and Development approach, departing from some of the criticized aspects imputed to the WID ...

  7. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_Alternatives...

    DAWN economists Gita Sen and Caren Grown presented a platform for a feminist economics at the 1985 World Conference on Women in Nairobi. [5] The ideas which circulated there were later published as a book, Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions, Third World Women's Perspectives, considered to be DAWN’s manifesto. [3]

  8. Female empowerment in Nigeria - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_empowerment_in_Nigeria

    Nigerian women. Female empowerment in Nigeria is an economic process that involves empowering Nigerian women as a poverty reduction measure. [1] [2] Empowerment is the development of women in terms of politics, social and economic strength in nation development. It is also a way of reducing women's vulnerability and dependency in all spheres of ...

  9. FEMNET - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMNET

    FEMNET was established by Eddah Gachukia, Njoki Wainaina, and Norah Olembo in 1984 to co-ordinate African preparations for the Third World Conference on Women held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985. As part of their role to organize African women to attend the conference, the three women registered FEMNET and drafted its constitution.