1 Introduction -- 2 Before NGOs: Women's Organizations in Colonial India -- 3 Politics of Women's Empowerment and Non …-Governmental Organizations -- 4 NGO Activism and Women's Empowerment in India -- 5 Women’s Participation in Rural Local Governance of Bangladesh …: Progress and Challenges -- 6 Reproductive Health of Women and Human Development in Nepal -- 7 Role of Microfinance in …

This study aims to identify the effects of Juntos, the conditional cash transfer program in Peru, on women …'s empowerment. Although the program does not envisage women's welfare as an objective per se, women play a key role as they are the … approach (ENDES and Young Lives Study), the study finds positive significant effects on women's empowerment, specifically on …

Women empowerment contributes to the coastal economy and dispositions to household income. This descriptive study aimed … to establish women's empowerment and their roles in the overall performance of selected fisheries-related livelihood in … coastal towns of Milagros, Cawayan, Placer, and Esperanza, Masbate. It was participated by 82 women beneficiaries. A …

This paper explores whether the welfare of women increased following the extension of women's rights between 1960s and … satisfaction of women of childbearing age. Birth control rights also increased women's investment in education, probability of … working and income. Other women's rights have proved less beneficial. Mutual consent divorce laws decreased women's welfare …