findings of a multi-country research programme, 'Pathways of Women's Empowerment', to explore pathways of positive change in … women's lives, in diverse contexts, and to draw together some lessons for policy and practice. It begins with an account of … women's empowerment in development, tracing some key ideas that have shaped feminist engagement with empowerment in theory …

a result of growing political commitments, as well as the work of women’s movements and feminist economic studies. These … on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean, have adopted the Regional Gender Agenda, which aims to guarantee women …-responsibility between men and women, and among the State, the market, communities, and families, as well as the importance of promoting the …