C. Political empowerment programme

Empowerment through participation in the political process

Political empowerment is an integral aspect of participatory development.

(g) Developing initiatives for the political and economic empowerment of youth

Empowerment depended on local conditions, opportunities and the local political context.

57. Women s political empowerment was hampered by traditional perceptions of their role.

3. Move towards the consolidation of democracy and the political empowerment of women.

Enhance women s economic and political empowerment, including by directing international aid toward their health, education, and welfare.

The consultations focused on economic and political empowerment, violence, health, education, technology, urban poverty, shelter, and environmental protection.

Women's empowerment.

Economic empowerment

Initiative towards Women's Empowerment Program, which aimed at promoting social, political and economic rights of women within communities and the larger society.

70. She welcomed the progress in revitalizing UNIFEM and supported the Fund apos s focus on economic and political empowerment for women.

The implementation of the Platform for Action would enhance the social, economic and political empowerment of women, thus achieving people centred development.

45. In Somalia, UNIFEM has prioritized peace building as its principle entry point for supporting the economic and political empowerment of women.

African Empowerment Guild

Participation and empowerment

Empowerment is positive.

A. Women s empowerment

It also supported female literacy activities in partnership with local non governmental organizations, in order to enhance women s social, economic and political empowerment.

ICT and women's empowerment

B. Economic empowerment programme

C. Empowerment of women

Women apos s empowerment

Nevertheless, the independent expert emphasizes the need to continue improving the economic empowerment of women and their participation rate in the social and political spheres.

The Government had, accordingly, made the political, legal, educational and economic empowerment of women one of its top priorities and a key to good governance.

We are committed to further promoting the political and economic empowerment of women so that gender equality becomes a matter of human rights and social justice.

The Association welcomed the proposal to convene a constituent assembly that would make it incumbent upon the United States Congress to ensure Puerto Rico's full political empowerment.

Gender equality and empowerment of women

C. Gender equality and women's empowerment

And empowerment through employment reducing stigma.

All of this leads to empowerment.

Other important mechanisms for women empowerment

Empowerment training for women, September 2003

C. Economic empowerment and poverty reduction

This process is known as empowerment .

(c) quot Empowerment through education quot

The agreed conclusions submitted by the Commission on the Status of Women had stressed the importance of such technologies to the economic, political and social empowerment of women.

37. In its attempt to foster the political and economic empowerment of women, UNIFEM has utilized a rights based framework that views the pursuit of sustainable human development as a fundamental human rights issue, and has made women s human rights a centrepiece of its empowerment approach to programming.

In the political sphere, the election of a new Government had provided women with an opportunity to elect representatives who would promote their empowerment in the economic and political fields, and to serve in high offices in the Government.

Timely support to a national action plan for the political empowerment of women in Bahrain, provided by UNDP just before the elections, brought six women into the present parliament.

Governments had a unique and essential role in that regard, in particular by eliminating institutionalized inequalities, encouraging political participation and embracing diversity as a source of enrichment and empowerment.

Translating that realization into reality, however, remained a major challenge, particularly for developing countries, and would require a greater empowerment of women at the social, economic and political levels.

While the political empowerment of women remained a challenge for the Government, an encouraging start had been made, indicating that attitudes towards women apos s leadership capabilities were changing.

The implementation strategy will focus on building and strengthening capacity in support of leadership building, accountability and transparency political transitions civil society empowerment, peace and stability and gender mainstreaming.