What makes change happen in women’s lives?
Photo/Sheikh Rajibul Islam
Pathways of Women’s Empowerment is a DFID funded research and communications programme which will link with academics, activists and practitioners to find out what works to enhance women’s empowerment. We want to identify where women are achieving real gains and discover the positive and negative factors which have influenced their journey.
Our aim is to make these pathways of change visible and to build on them to inspire a radical shift in policy and practice. By involving policy actors and practitioners directly in our research and learning, we hope our work will be in itself a catalyst for change.
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Changing Narratives of Sexuality
Members of the Changing Narratives of Sexuality Theme used the opportunity of the Sexuality and the Development Industry workshop to get together at IDS from 7-9 April for an update and planning session on the theme. We used the chance to interview some of the researchers on their projects - listen to the podcasts on the Changing Narratives Theme page.
Sexuality and the Development Industry
| Pathways of Women's Empowerment jointly convened a workshop, together with the IDS Sexuality and Development Programme, on Sexuality and the Development Industry from 3-5 April 2008.
Around 70 participants met to examine how sexuality is framed and influenced by international aid and the development industry and to look for more creative and constructive means of engagement. See IDS Webpage, Siyanda Discussion Board and the IDS Sexuality and Development Programme webpage |
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Looking with the Eyes of the Soul
The report from the photography course undertaken by team members from NEIM, Brazil in October 2007 is available to download in pdf (667 KB). Outputs from the course, run by Fernanda Capibaribe, can be seen at iYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/fcapibaribe
Women and Politics: the Brazil Paradox
Despite an established and diverse women's movement, prominent in civil society, Brazil has one of the lowest rates of women's political participation in the world. Ana Alice Alcântara investigates a Brazilian paradox. See Open Democracy
International Women's Day - March 8th
To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th, Tessa Lewin discusses the work of the Pathways of Women's Empowerment programme on the IDS website and Alyson Brody from BRIDGE reports from the recent Commission on the Status of Women meetings in New York. Plus you can get a taster of some of the photographs which formed part of a competition which the Pathways South Asia Hub ran last year on 'Changing Images of Women'...IDS News
Conceptualising Empowerment
The Global Hub held a conference under its 'Conceptualising Women’s Empowerment in the Policy Spaces and Processes of International Development' project from 11-12 February at Dunford House in Sussex. See the Global Hub News page for more information, also the IDS News page for Rosalind Eyben's report from workshop.
“Across the globe women seem to rise above the most challenging circumstances” but we are less clear “about the pathways to empowerment” Professor Takyiwaa Manuh
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