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Castellsagué, Alba; Carrasco, Silvia – Ethnography and Education, 2021
Education and gender have become central issues within development discourses and practices in Nepal, under the powerful idea that school enables equality for women, collective wellbeing, and the nation's development. While hegemonic approaches to development are being increasingly challenged, critical contributions focusing on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Equal Education, Womens Education
Deagon, Jay R.; Ham, Miriam; Hillman, Wendy – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2021
Educated and skilled women are active change agents. This paper focuses on informal hospitality education as a tool for social change and empowerment for severely marginalized Nepalese women. Studied over 18 months, a small group of women cooking for a boutique local and international tourist market in Kathmandu participated in cookery skills…
Descriptors: Social Change, Empowerment, Disadvantaged, Females
Valenza, Marco; Dreesen, Thomas – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
Learning remains largely out of reach for many of the most vulnerable children around the world. In low- and middle-income countries, an estimated 56% of children cannot read a simple text by the age of 10. This share is projected to rise to 70% after the pandemic. The school closures imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak, coupled with an enduring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Access to Education, Low Income Groups
Chae, Sophia; Ngo, Thoai D. – Population Council, 2017
Growing recognition of the harmful effects of child marriage has placed its elimination on the global and national agenda. To address this problem, the authors reviewed the global state of evidence on what works to prevent child marriage. Their research focuses exclusively on rigorously evaluated interventions, defined as interventions evaluated…
Descriptors: Marriage, Children, World Problems, Prevention
Murphy-Graham, Erin; Lloyd, Cynthia – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
This article proposes a conceptual framework for how education can promote adolescent girls' empowerment and, by mapping the field, highlights promising examples of empowering education programs. We conclude by identifying both research and programmatic opportunities for the future that will harness the expertise of a range of specialists from the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Middle School Students, Student Empowerment
Eldred, Janine – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2013
This paper explores how literacy learning can support women's empowerment and the development of greater equality, benefitting not only individual women, but families, communities and economies too. It describes and reflects upon some of the most promising approaches to developing literacy and learning for women, who form the majority of the…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Empowerment, Civil Rights
Pandey, Shanta; Lee, Hae nim – Health Education Journal, 2012
Background: Approximately 1.4 million or 13% of all children who die each year could be prevented with widely-available vaccines. Objective: We examined if women's empowerment improved child immunization using data on 1,056 mothers with young children from Nepal. Methods: The study utilized the 2006 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, a…
Descriptors: Health Services, Foreign Countries, Child Health, Mothers
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

Manandhar, Udaya; And Others – Convergence, 1994
Manandhar and Leslie describe literacy innovations conducted in Nepal by Save the Children US. Taladhar discusses a project in which postliterate Nepalese women produced a video, challenging stereotypes about women and technology and the myth that only professionals can use video technology. (SK)
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Empowerment, Females, Foreign Countries
Kehrberg, Norma – 1996
Women in Nepal are empowered through adult functional literacy programs called Non Formal Education (NFE). The NFE classes are held six nights per week using discussion and group socialization processes that develop critical thinking and build self-esteem in a society in which women have few or no legal rights. In these programs, women gain…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Educational Needs