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Kisana, Ravikant; Arora, Shubhda – Gender and Education, 2023
In 2018, Nuh, barely 75 km from India's parliament, was ranked by the Government as the country's most 'backward' district. It is a region fraught with many challenges including endemic poverty and simmering communal tensions, which among other factors have contributed to historically limiting women from pursuing higher education or building…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Higher Education
Dimopoulos, Carol A. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In this paper, the researcher presents the findings of this original qualitative study on the human experience of the participants of The Purkal Project, change-makers in social innovation that provide free, world-class education and vocational development in an economically challenged rural community in the Himalayan region of Northern India. In…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Rural Areas, Females
Mahalingam, Mahalakshmi R. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Food insecurity is a global concern and is acute in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as well as pockets in the global North. In the lush green spaces of "God's Own Country", the state of Kerala in India, about 379,000 women are engaged in farming in about 75,800 groups. Spearheaded by Kudumbashree, the State Poverty Eradication Mission…
Descriptors: Hunger, Females, Agricultural Occupations, Poverty
Sahni, Urvashi – Brookings Institution Press, 2017
Since 2003 a privately funded high school has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh, in northeast India. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, tells the stories of how the school has changed the lives of more than 5,000 girls and their…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Equal Education, Poverty
Baily, Supriya – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2015
Using a critical theory framework, the article explores emancipatory narratives obtained through a case study of women in rural India. In-depth interviews, focus group conversations, observations, and document analysis highlight the complexity of the subsequent set of challenges facing women as it relates to both the education and empowerment for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Empowerment, Critical Theory
Modi, Armene – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2017
This working paper will share the experience of Ashta No Kai (ANK), a grassroots nonprofit the author founded in 1998 in 10 villages in Shirur County, Maharashtra state, India, to promote the empowerment and education of women and girls in rural areas. The paper will, at first, examine the state of education in India including the Indian…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Foreign Countries, Womens Education
Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2015
UIL has published a second edition of a collection of case studies of promising literacy programmes that seek to empower women. "Narrowing the Gender Gap: Empowering Women through Literacy Programmes" (originally published in 2013 as "Literacy Programmes with a Focus on Women to Reduce Gender Disparities") responds to the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Access to Education, Empowerment, Womens Education
Chickering, Lawrence; Tyagi, Anjula – Policy Review, 2012
The challenges of poverty and development have long been regarded in terms of transitive relationships, in which the rich help the poor because the poor are not seen as able to help themselves. This view of the poor assumes they have mainly needs and no assets. With so many people believing this view it isn't surprising that the poor themselves…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Foreign Countries, Play, Poverty
Kairies, Jan, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013
Literacy is the foundation of lifelong learning and a crucial element in the universally recognised right to education. However, illiteracy continues to exist as a global challenge, and many individuals still lack the basic literacy skills that are needed to engage in further learning opportunities and for the economic and social development of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Females, Womens Education, Literacy
Gulati, Sonia; Paterson, Margo; Medves, Jennifer; Luce-Kapler, Rebecca – Qualitative Report, 2011
Debate remains about how to effectively obtain information from adolescents with disabilities in marginalized areas and how to apply this knowledge to shape rehabilitation activities. This study explored how to empower adolescents in the urban slums of North India to assume greater control over their rehabilitation within the context of a local…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Programs, Ethnography, Disabilities, Adolescents
Simkhada, Padam – Children & Society, 2008
Many girls involved in sex work in Asia do so because they are compelled by economic circumstances and social inequality. Some enter sex work voluntarily, others do so by force or deception, sometimes involving migration across international borders. Nepalese girls involved in sex work via trafficking are the focus of this article, which aims at…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Poverty, Females, Urban Areas
Balasubramanian, K.; Thamizoli, P.; Umar, Abdurrahman; Kanwar, Asha – Distance Education, 2010
This article is an attempt to study the role of mobile phones in the non-formal and informal context among rural women from resource poor communities. In particular, it focuses on the women's control over the mobile phone as a learning tool through the domestication of technologies. The distance learning, gender dimensions, and use of technologies…
Descriptors: Females, Distance Education, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries
van Kempen, Luuk – Social Indicators Research, 2009
The paper reports on a field experiment conducted among poor women organized in self-help groups in the north-east of India. The experiment tests in a simple game whether overly optimistic expectations with respect to the benefits of exercising agency reduces one's appreciation of remaining with agency in the future. If so, unrealistic…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Females, Self Help Programs, Foreign Countries
Ghose, Malini – Convergence, 2007
The note discusses some key issues pertaining to gender, literacy and women's empowerment in India. It uses disaggregated data to illustrate the persisting gender disparities with regard to literacy and points out that despite this there is a lack of real political will to address issues of adult literacy. It further draws on data from the…
Descriptors: Females, Empowerment, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy
Meena, M. S.; Jain, Dilip; Meena, H. R. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2008
Self-help groups (SHGs) have emerged as an effective mechanism of empowerment and development of women as well as being on efficient mode of promoting group action and technology dissemination. Initiatives were undertaken at the Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology (CIPHET), Ludhiana to facilitate the formation of women's…
Descriptors: Females, Self Help Programs, Technology Transfer, Rural Areas
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