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Women’s Empowerment

Pathways of Women's Empowerment

Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (IDS) is leading on the Women's Empowerment Research Programme Consortium to generate a programme that will inform the international community as it acts to eradicate poverty. In some places women are achieving real gains, and the purpose is to discover how this has happened - the means by which economic, political and reproductive rights are enjoyed by women in practice.

The approach emphasises both direct engagement in learning from and with those involved in processes of change, from global arenas to the grassroots and exploring the systemic conditions that shape opportunities.

The project includes partners from Ghana, Brazil, Egypt and Bangladesh. For more information external hyperlinkwww.pathways-of-empowerment.org

More information on the project can be found on external hyperlinkResearch4Development

Women’s Empowerment in Muslim Contexts

Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong is leading on this RPC To study women’s indigenous strategies for empowerment in ways that could transform unfavourable power relations. The director is Dr Vivienne Wee. The other members of the consortium are:

1. International Gender Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University

2. Department of Community Health Services, Aga Khan University, Pakistan

3. Shirkat Gah, Pakistan

4. Simorgh Women’s resource and Publications centre, Pakistan

5. Solidaritas Perempuan, Indonesia

6. Semarak Cerlang Nusa, Indonesia

7. Women Living under Muslim Laws (Regional Coordination Office- Asia)

The research project will analyse women’s empowerment strategies, identify sources of support for strengthening women’s agency as insiders challenging disempowering structures, build analytical capacity and strategic alliances that catalyse transformative research, and pinpoint ways for promoting good governance, democratization, and appropriate development. The relevance of this research extends beyond Muslim contexts to non-Muslim contexts with other disempowering forces. The research was chosen to focus on Muslim contexts because women’s empowerment in Muslim contexts is being contested intensely by certain political Islamists.

More information on the project can be found on external linkResearch4Development and at the external linkWEMC website

Last updated: 18 July 2007