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Rajesh Tandon; Sumitra Srinivasan – International Review of Education, 2024
The use of "participatory research" and "participation" to promote the empowerment of the poor and marginalised began in the 1970s and gained momentum in the early 1980s. The approach builds on the "learning for change" paradigm in which everyday experience is the basis for developing agency, and committing to and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health, Safety, Work Environment
Kuppuswami, Damodaram; Ferreira, Frances – Journal of Learning for Development, 2022
To ensure its partners have the capacity to implement gender responsive projects, COL introduced an online training programme on gender equality and women's empowerment. This paper reports the methodology and results in measuring the efficacy of this online training at individual and organisational levels. The ability of individuals and…
Descriptors: Females, Capacity Building, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness
UNESCO Bangkok, 2020
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields are considered catalysts for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Yet, particularly for STEM fields, girls and women, for a multitude of social, cultural and psychological reasons, engage and participate at a lower rate than boys and men. This research…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Womens Education, Females, Barriers
Population Council, 2018
The Population Council is building one of the world's largest bodies of research on programs to improve the lives of adolescents, especially girls. For the past two decades, the Council has been identifying best practices, refining the critical elements of girl-centered programs, and using rigorous evidence to help decisionmakers allocate scarce…
Descriptors: Females, Best Practices, Resource Allocation, Program Development
Hanemann, Ulrike – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (NJ1), 2012
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (2006-2015)--LIFE--to tackle the literacy challenge. This is a collaborative effort to accelerate literacy efforts in thirty five of the world's most challenged countries and thereby to unlock progress to reach all of the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Adult Literacy, Needs Assessment, Nonformal Education
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
Chiang, Linda H. – 2002
East Asia is the region which has experienced unprecedented growth in the past few decades. This growth resulted in the increase in education opportunities and the empowerment of women. Modernization and globalization provided opportunities for many women in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Japan. Modern Asian women can obtain…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Educational Opportunities, Empowerment, Females
Ramdas, Lalita – Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, 2004
The 40th Anniversary Celebrations of the Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education (ASPBAE) is an opportune moment to document the journey it has travelled over the last forty years. This book is an account of how women leaders came to be a significant part of the governance of ASPBAE and gender a central perspective underpinning both its…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Mainstreaming, Females, Foreign Countries

Jayaweera, Swarna – Gender and Education, 1997
Examines the relationship between education and economic, political, and social status for empowering women in Asia. Using macro statistics from each country, no positive linear relationship is revealed. Further examined are factors that surface in each area, including gender relations within the family, that constrain the role of education as an…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Economic Opportunities, Educational Benefits, Empowerment
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2002
Peace Corps volunteers are perceived as role models, technical specialists, teachers, counselors, heroes, and friends. This idea book shares specific ideas and frameworks for transferring the potential for positive guidance into classrooms and communities around the world. It concentrates on activities and strategies that increase girls' access…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classroom Environment, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education
Jayaweera, Swarna – Compare, 1997
Examines the extent to which higher education has facilitated or impeded economic and social empowerment of women in Asia, through developments and processes within family and educational institutions. Draws illustrations from South Asia, the Philippines, and Japan to reflect countries in different stages of development and with different cultural…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations, Economic Development

Ross, Heidi – Comparative Education Review, 1999
Review of "Women, Education, and Development in Asia: Cross-National Perspectives" (Grace Mak, editor) and "Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia" (Roger Jeffery, Alaka Basu, editors) discusses the unpredictable impact of schooling on women, a critical gender-based perspective on human capital…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Birth Rate, Book Reviews, Economic Development