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Search Database Keyword : | Advanced Search Social Development - Women ON-GOING PROJECTS 1) Building Capacities of Women Entrepreneurs and Exploring Opportunities for Micro Enterprise Development for Cooperatives in Southeast Asia   Project No. 092   Implementing Agency: AWCF (Asian Women in Co-operative Development Forum), Philippines   Two-thirds of the world's poor, who live on less than a dollar a day, still live in Asia. the recent financial crisis has not only slowed down the pace of poverty reduction, but also resulted in a considerable increase in the number of the poor. Goal 3 of the MDGs calls on nations to "promote gender equality and empower women". it builds on the work of women's advocates at various UN conferences in the 1990s,in particular the Fourth World Conference on Women, and the five year review of the conference's platform for action. In addition, The UN Convention on the Elimination of the All forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has played an important part in shaping international commitment to gender equality. But progress still achieving the aims of the PFA and CEDAW has been uneven. The economic, social, political, legal, and cultural structures that perpetuate gender inequality are still in place throughout the world and many countries lack the resources to implement changes that would benefit women. Given conditions, UNIFEM believes it is extremely important that governments expedites actions to fulfill commitments to women and that donor nations increase the support and resources necessary to fulfill goal 3. Promoting gender equality and empowering women are more than mere phrases-UNIFEM shows in progress 2002 that achieving these ends improves the lives of everyone, not just women. And it shows how ending women's inequality can have a profound impact on many other national sectors.     COMPLETED PROJECTS 1) Promoting Economic Empowerment of Women as Important Dimension to Building Gender Equality in Southeast Asia   Project No. 059   Implementing Agency: Asian Women in Co-operative Development Forum (AWCF)   More than quarter of the developing world?s people still lives in poverty. Together, South Asia, East Asia and South-East Asia and the Pacific have more than 950 million of the 1.3 billion people- live on income of less than $1 a day. Women are disproportionately poor- and too often disempowered and burdened by the strains of productive work, the birth and care of children and other household and community responsibilities. and their lack of access to land, credit and better employment opportunities handicaps their ability to fend off poverty for themselves and their families - or to rise out of it (Human Development Report 1997-UNDP), A Special study conducted for the statistical division of the UN secretariat by the International Food and Policy Research Institute revealed that in general, there are more woman than men in poor households in half of their data sets from Africa and 2/3 of the data sets from southern and south-eastern Asia. Their analysis suggests strongly, but no means conclusively, that women-headed households are poorer in more than half of the countries examined in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa (The World's Women 1995-Trends and statistics, UN)     2) Workshop on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) for Economic Empowerment.   Project No. 018   Implementing Agency: Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)   Critical to any strategy of poverty eradication and economic empowerment, women comprise half of any countries population. To ignore their development is to lose a significant half of a nations economic potential. Studies show that the cycle of poverty and disadvantage is likely to repeat itself in the future generations. Empowerment of women, therefore, is necessary if we want to reduce current poverty levels.     3) Women, Gender and Co-operatives in Asia Meeting Challenges and Identifying Opportunities   Project No. 023   Implementing Agency: Asian Women in Co-operative Development Forum (AWCF)   Women are disproportionately poor - and too often disempowered and burdened by the strains of productive work, the birth and care of children and other household and community responsibilities. And their lack of access to land, credit and better employment opportunities handicaps their ability to fend off poverty for themselves and their families- or to rise out of it.(Human development report-UNDP). The Asian women in Co-operative development Forum (AWCF) wants to see that the promotion of equity and equality be real not only in co-op organisation and community based organisation but also in development works. AWCF wants to join other regional advocacy bodies to promote quality life in the social and economic aspect by advancing women economic empowerment through co-operatives in ASEAN Nation states.     [ Back ]

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