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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]
The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is an international organisation whose aim is to unite conservative voices and propose policy based on traditional Western values. It is associated with psychologist and political commentator Jordan Peterson .
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 Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) is a pan-African non-governmental organization founded in 1992 by five women ministers of education to promote girls’ and women's education in sub-Saharan Africa by making sure they have access to schools and are able to complete their studies and fulfill their potential, in line with UNESCO's Education For All movement.
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 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.
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.
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 .