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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]
In 1987, a workshop on the role of rural women in development was held in Abuja and led to the establishment of Better Life Program for the Rural Woman. [7] Currently the organisation has recently developed a new strategy which will be implemented over the next five years to ensure rural women in Nigeria and Africa are supported and empowered. [8]
Sabala Organization, women's empowerment; Sanlaap, women's rights; Self Employed Women's Association; Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad, women's cooperative; The Women of India Summit, founded in 2014, annual conference to address gender inequality in India; Women's Indian Association, founded 1917, the first national women's organisation
The keynote pieces of the summit start Wednesday with President Biden's arrival, along with the presence of about 20 of the region's leaders.
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]
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.
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 .