Facilitating the empowerment of women: the case of the People"s Bank of Nigeria.

Facilitating the empowerment of women: the case of the People"s Bank of Nigeria by Mojisola Folake Tiamiyu Download PDF EPUB FB2

The Peoples Bank of Nigeria (PBN), established in was one of the most laudable example of government efforts to promote rural financial intermediation with the objective of Author: Chukwuemeka Okoye. Women Empowerment Through Access to Information: The Strategic Roles of Non-Governmental Organizations in Nigeria.

was considered particularly important in facilitating women’s empowerment. The indicators used to measure women’s empowerment, such as, for example, the UNDP’s Gender Empowerment Measure, or the “wealth” indicators of access to water or the amount of food consumed in one household used by the World Bank, do not communicate anything about the means employed to attain these results, though these are precisely Cited by: 8.

Credit and micro-finance support for rural women are not only for economic empowerment of rural women but also for poverty reduction and for enhancing of better living condition of poor rural women (Linda, Mayoux, ).This means that when credit facilities and micro-finance support reach large number of poor anddisadvantaged rural women for.

Empowerment as a methodology is also associated with feminism. Process. Empowerment is the process of obtaining basic opportunities for marginalized people, either directly by those people, or through the help of non-marginalized others who share their own access to these opportunities.

It also includes actively thwarting attempts to deny those. countries with regards to advocacy and capacity building focusing on women’s empowerment, women’s land rights, agriculture and natural resource management in the aim of reducing poverty and ensuring food security.

Five case studies conducted in different countries, i.e. Niger, Burundi, El Salvador, Tanzania and. Compendium of. Good Practices. Gender Mainstreaming: Selection of Country. Good Practices Produced by: Federal Ministry of Women Affairs & Social Development. September, P08 - Youth Participation P09 - Policy Frameworks P10 - Introduction to Case studies P12 - Organisational development case studies P16 - Policy and planning case studies P20 - Implementation case studies P24 - Monitoring and evaluation case studies P26 - Conclusion 2 P10 - Case studies P10 - Introduction.

The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 Septembercalling for the establishment of the African bloc was founded on 26 May in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and launched on 9 July in Durban, South Africa.

Aligned with the World Bank Group Gender Strategy, the World Bank and several partners launched a global campaign “Stand For Her Land” to ensure women’s equal access and secure rights to land and property.

The World Bank also supports the land rights of smallholders and Indigenous Peoples, displaced people and refugees. PAGE 09 Commonwealth Human Ecology Council (CHEC), Nigeria and Patron, Global Organization for Women Empowerment, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the empowerment of African women.

In she was conferred with an honorary Doctorate by the Institute of Journalism and inPresident Goodluck Jonathan conferred her with the Order. Entrepreneurship is a tool for facilitating rural economic development, which is becoming increasingly needed to respond to the growing impacts of accelerating climate change on rural women’s livelihoods in less developed countries creating constraints on sustainable development.

This study examines the awareness of and impacts of climatic changes as Author: C. Akinbami, J. Olawoye, F. Adesina, V. Nelson. Human Rights Watch 2 OctoberVol.

14,No. 6 (A) I. SUMMARY When a civilian government was reinstated in Nigeria inmany of those living in the Niger Delta region. Since the s, movements aimed at giving Muslim women access to the serious study of Islamic texts have emerged across the world.

In this book, Masooda Bano argues that the creative spirit that marked the rise and consolidation of Islam, whereby Islam inspired serious intellectual engagement to create optimal societal institutions, can be found within these Cited by: 1. promote women’s empowerment.’3 The W20 can play an important role towards achieving this.

As things stand, however, women are not as fully engaged in the Information Society as men. In many countries they enjoy less access to digital technologies and the Internet than men, make less use of them, and gain less benefit from them than do men.

Saw, L. (): Women’s Empowerment in Malawi: A Collection of Speeches and Papers from a Conference on Raising the Status of Women, pp. in Society for the Advancement of Women (   Like Adaura, thousands of Nigerian women and girls have been trafficked within Nigeria, to other countries in Africa, and to Europe in recent years.

Many are escaping dire economic situations at. The role of community based organizations in rural development (A case study of selected CBOs in District Swat).

Sarhad J. Agric. 24(4): INTRODUCTION Community-based organizations (CBOs) are not for profit, organizations on a local and national level, facilitating community efforts for community Size: 44KB. Governance is the formal means of incorporating inclusivity in government bodies and other relevant entities.

Capacity building that strengthens skills and knowledge has the potential to address and change preconceived notions or prejudices against societal groups that are vulnerable and at risk of being neglected. ii undp and civil society organizations:a toolkit for strengthening partnerships Secretary-General’s response urge the United Nations to become more outward looking, engage with a plurality of actors and constituencies inFile Size: 1MB.

Women’s Legal and Economic Empowerment Database (Women–LEED– Africa), Development Economics, World Bank, Washington, DC. Pande, Rohini, and Christopher Udry. “Institutions and.Facilitating access to electronic information like the Internet and E-mail. Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria Act, States Laws on Mortgage Institutions.

African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Enforcement and Ratification) Act, Women Empowerment. Constitutional Obligations.Gail Straub, cofounder and executive director of the Empowerment Institute, is one of the world’s leading authorities on women’s empowerment.

She codirects the Empowerment Institute’s School for Transformative Social Change, which empowers change agents from around the world to design and implement cutting-edge social innovations.