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Pathways projects46Conceptualising empowermentChanging Times, Changing Lives: Women’s Empowerment throughGenerations in Bahia, BrazilThis study identified and analysed changes in women’s lives in Salvador,Bahia over the last three generations, and how these changes relate toprocesses of women’s empowerment.Conceptualising Empowerment: A Look at Public Policy for Women inBrazilThis project identified and analysed conceptualisations of empowerment inBrazil underlying public policies for women, in particular at the Pro GenderEquality Programme (Programa Pró-Eqüidade de Gênero) implemented bythe Secretariat for Public Policies for Women.Conceptualising Empowerment in Global Spaces and the Shaping ofInternational Policies and Practice about WomenThis project explored the meanings and debates around women’sempowerment within and among sets of actors with global reach, andlooked at how they are shaping values, ideas and policy actions (orabsence of actions) on women’s empowerment.Discourses on Women’s Empowerment in Sierra LeonePre-war discourses of empowerment which were mainly around issues ofdevelopment have now changed, in this post-war era, to include issues ofgender equality, participation and voice, among others. This projecttracked these changes in relation to women’s conceptions ofempowerment during this period.Expanding the Space for Women’s Empowerment in Contemporary NigeriaThis project examined the discourses ofempowermentused byspecificactors, particularly in relation to understandings of women’sdisempowerment, and explored the effects of these discourses on effortsto bring about gender equality.Interrogating Policy Discourses and Practice on Women’s Empowerment inGhanaThis project involved looking at policy texts of organisations (civil society,donor agencies and government) dealing with women’s issues to see whatkind of empowerment is present in the texts.National Discourses on Women’s Empowerment: Enabling or ConstrainingWomen’s ChoicesThis project compared and contrasted conceptualisations of women’sempowerment in Bangladesh, in the development area, in women’sorganisations and in cultural spheres such as the media and religion.Qalet el Rawiyah (So Said the Storyteller)/Ana el Hekkaya (I am the Story)A storytelling project that aimed to enhance the empowerment of Arabwomen through a rereading and rewriting of traditional representations oftheir roles.Talking Empowerment in Plain ArabicThis project held a series of workshops in Arabic to discuss the agendas ofwomen’s empowerment and the flows that influence, set, shape, critiqueand communicate them in plain Arabic rather than English (which tends tobe the language of empowerment in Arab countries).3G3G Three Generations of Women is an interactive multimedia project thatattempts to move beyond the media stereotypes and statistics aboutwomen, and look at their real lives.Tracing and Measuring Empowerment and Change in Women’s Livesthrough Revisiting Different NGO Trajectories ofDevelopmentDiscourseand Local Lay Women’s Conceptions of EmpowermentThis project analysed the ideological and structural transformation of theconcept of ‘empowerment of women’ as applied within developmentparadigms and policies in Palestinian NGOs in general, focusing onwomen’s organisations in particular and on locally recognised empoweredwomen.Empowering workAnalysing the Egypt Labour Market SurveyResearchers used the Egypt Labour Market Panel Survey (ELMPS) of 2006(and its predecessors) to foster both qualitative and quantitative studieson various aspects of gender and work in Egypt, as well as buildingresearch capacity in this area.
Gendered Impacts of BRAC and WFW Microfinance Programming on HazaraWomen in Kabul, AfghanistanThis research provided a grassroots analysis of the livelihood strategies ofwomen from low-income households, their ability to take advantage of neweconomic resources and the extent to which these resources, along withother supportive measures, have translated into shifts in the balance ofpower within the family and the community.Cash Transfers for Poor Families in EgyptDr Hania Sholkamy (Pathways Middle East Hub Convenor) and her team atthe Social Research Center, American University in Cairo collaborated withthe Ministry of Social Solidarity to implement Egypt’s first conditional cashtransfer programme. The pilot was launched in March 2009 in the Caireneslum of Ain el-Sira.Changes and Continuity in Women’s Everyday Lives in GhanaThrough a pilot survey of 400 women in urban, peri-urban and rural areasin the Greater Accra Region, this study explored women’s everyday lives inorder to better understand their experiences of empowerment anddisempowerment.Empowering Domestic Work: The Organising of Domestic Workers in BrazilThis project traced how some of the most marginalised workers in Brazilcame to unionise, press demands for professionalisation to governmentand achieve a major policy shift. It draws out broader lessons on howmarginalised workers can gain rights, security and wellbeing, addressingthe intersections of race, class and gender.Lady Health Workers in PakistanThis study explored the empowerment-related possibilities experienced bywomen in a major public sector community health initiative in Pakistan.Women Health Workers in BangladeshThis research considered whether and how the work done by women healthworkers leads to changes at the individual, family and societal levels.Paid Work and Women’s EmpowermentThis research project explored how paid work can change women’s lives interms of dealing with the public sphere and institutions, accessingservices, commodities, resources, information, reducing isolation,increasing negotiation/bargaining skills, ability to protect themselves, etc.Women’s Voice in Policy Spaces Shaping the Global EconomyThis project looks at the challenge of how to maximise the gains and minimisethe constraints of globalisation in order that women can access markets as apathway to their empowerment in different regional and local contexts.Building constituencies for equality and justiceWomen in the Writing of 1988 ConstitutionThis research analysed documents and interviews with congresswomenwho participated in the elaboration of the Federal Constitution of 1988.Feminisms and Women’s Movements in Brazil: Issues and ChallengesThis research is ongoing and looks into collective action as a pathway towomen’s empowerment.Brazilian Feminisms in the United Nations ArenasThis research analysed the strategies of articulation ofBrazilian feminists,with a special focus on the global spaces created by the United Nationsorganisations.Women in Local Power in Bahia – City Council WomenThis project facilitated training seminars with local council women.Building Constituencies for Political Reform: Quotas as an Instrument ofChangeThis project looked at the extent to which political quotas for women canbe successful in bringing women into political office.Review of Strategic Approaches to Building Constituencies by Women’sOrganisationsThis project sought to document and analyse strategies and approachesused by selected women’s organisations in Bangladesh to mobilise andadvocate for women’s rights and raise demands to the State and otherrights holders.Dialogue with Selected Women District Assembly Members in GhanaThis research asked how assembly members got into office, and what theirexperiences in office have been, and what gains they have made forthemselves and their communities.Family Courts in Egypt: An Exit from Marriage on a Pathway toEmpowerment?This research looked at the reforms that have been taking place in Egyptianpersonal status laws since 2000, and their implications for women’sempowerment.Feminist Activists in Global Policy OrganisationsThis project identified and worked with feminist activists working withininternational development organisations that are shaping discourse andpolicy action – it explored their strategies and strengthened capacity tobring about change.Pathways projects47
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