Purpose The paper aims to explore gaps in women's empowerment in rural areas,
specifically focusing on the alignment of skill development with job creation. The …

The Rising Tide Page 1 RISING TIDE The A New Look at Water and Gender Maitreyi Bordia
Das with Gaia Hatzfeldt Page 2 About the Water Global Practice Launched in 2014, the …

Background Women in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) are primary producers of
subsistence food and significant contributors to the agricultural economy. Gender Based …

In this article, we empirically test the sustainability of women's empowerment using
representative and rich individual-level panel data from India for the years 2004− 5 and …

Motivation Governments support women's self‐employment as a means to support women's
empowerment. While they tend to do this by providing financial assistance, skills …

Motivation Investing in youth employment is central to development agendas. However,
policy directed towards increasing employment rates among young people needs to …

This chapter takes a fresh look at the issue of women's empowerment and its relationship
with development. The authors address the slower pace of development in women …

The primary source of water for most residents of India's nearly 640,000 villages is a
handpump that extracts water from a shallow aquifer and is shared by several households …

This study examines women's access to decent work in a regional Indonesian context. This
study employ structuration theory and a feminist policy analysis framework. Case study …

The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the role of Local Economic
Development (LED) in empowering women in the rural areas surrounding City of Mbombela …