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Bringing Gender Equality Closer to Women’s Economic Empowerment (2019)

Created 41 days ago by Veronica Del Motto
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This framework by CARE International integrates gender equality principles into women’s economic empowerment initiatives. Key elements are: enhancing women’s skills, confidence, and decision-making (agency), transforming power dynamics and social norms within families and communities (relations), and reforming laws, policies, and systems that sustain inequality (structures). The framework takes a multi-level approach, aligning individual, community, and systemic change. It has guided practitioners and policymakers in designing holistic initiatives that improve women’s livelihoods and transform social norms and institutional structures.