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The 2X Challenge is a pledge by development finance institutions to invest $3 billion in women's economic empowerment by the end of 2020. The project's purpose is to promote women as entrepreneurs, business leaders, and workers. [9] [13] Agriculture and agribusiness have the most women-led firms in Uganda Development Bank's portfolio. [9] [14]
One of ARC's first programs opened at Khao-I-Dang refugee camp in Thailand in late 1979. [3] ARC also provided medical and public health services at Nong Samet Refugee Camp , [ 4 ] Phanat Nikhom, [ 5 ] Ban Vinai Refugee Camp [ 6 ] and Site Two Refugee Camp until 1993, when the camps closed and ARC turned its attention to programs inside Cambodia .
All India Democratic Women's Association – founded in 1981 to achieve women's emancipation in India; Yes Helping Hand – Founded in 2009 for empowerment and employment of Women, Disabled people of Nepal; Alliance of Pan American Round Tables – founded 1916 to foster women's relationships throughout the Americas; Arab Feminist Union ...
The Pan-African Women's Organization (PAWO, Organisation Panafricaine des Femmes, (OPF)) was founded as the African Women's Union in 1962. In 1974, the organization changed its name to the Pan-African Women's Organization.
The ARC Empowerment Center, 378 Park Avenue West in Mansfield, will host “God Sends a Baby,” a 45-minute presentation by Paul Lintern, of carols and the Christmas story at noon and 7 p.m. Monday.
Sara Hlupekile Longwe, a consultant on gender and development based in Lusaka, Zambia, developed The Longwe's Women Empowerment Framework (WEF) in 1995. Adopted by the United Nations, the WEF is a tool kit to achieve women's empowerment, plan and monitor the development of women-related programs and projects worldwide. [51]
In storytelling, the heroine's journey is a female-centric version of the traditional hero's journey template. One origin of the idea is Maureen Murdock's 1990- book The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness; Murdock is a Jungian psychotherapist and a student of Joseph Campbell.
In 2019 Lesko received Youth MOVE National Dr. Gary M. Blau Professional of the Year ROCKSTAR Award. [8] [7] Lesko has been recognized as a leading expert in youth-led policy advocacy by diverse publications from across the nation, including The Washington Post, Houston Chronicle and Youth Today.