It is assumed that self-help groups (SHGs) will play a larger role in its countribution towards improving women … paper reviews scope and limitations of self-help groups in improving women's health and empowerment focusing on empirical … viewed only from an economic perspective. The existing approach emphasizes economic development of people and women in …

This paper explores the impact of a livestock transfer program, that targeted small-holder female farmers with high … confirm that program participation improve households’ food security through higher income from livestock sales and home … greater protein intake. Moreover, positive impacts on women’s empowerment and gender parity within the household are found …

Forty-five years ago, the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Economic and Social … Conference of the International Women’s Year (Mexico City, 1975). This meeting culminated in the adoption by the governments of … the region of the Regional Plan of Action for the Integration of Women into Latin American Economic and Social Development …