Essays about: "education political empowerment"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 26 essays containing the words education political empowerment.

1. 11. Left out and let down: A study on empowerment and access to education for young mothers in post-Ebola Sierra Leone

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Alexandra Pärnebjörk; [2017]
   Keywords : Adolescent pregnancy; Development; Education; Empowerment; Gender; Non-formal education; Reproductive health; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Sierra Leone has struggled with high rates of adolescent pregnancy for some time and reports have shown an increase in these figures during and following the unprecedented Ebola Virus Disease outbreak from 2014 through 15. As young girls are impregnated, it has long been customary for girls to drop out of school. READ MORE

3. 12. Finding The Women's Voice

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Sandra Komuhiimbo; [2016]
   Keywords : Gender; Feminism; Media; Radio; Women s Radio; Voice; Women s Voice; Civic Engagement; Women s Movement; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : “There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women,” Kofi Annan (UN News Center, 2005). The empowerment of women takes different forms such as pursuit of education, participation in political activities and representation in leadership, equal employment opportunities and wages, access to health care and ability to make decisions on personal reproductive health, economic bargaining and decision making power and access to all public social services among others. READ MORE

4. 13. Local NGOs and their empowerment of women

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Julia Campbell; [2016]
   Keywords : NGO; authoritarian regime; Burma; women; political participation; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis intends to contribute cumulatively to the understanding of the circumstances that women’s rights-focused NGOs work in when operating in a post-conflict country with an authoritarian regime. It also aims to argue on the importance of the NGOs’ role to empower women by political participation under those circumstances and discuss why it’s often very challenging for the mentioned NGOs to reach their goals. READ MORE

5. 14. Motivations, Ambitions and Options : of Secondary School Students in Rural Mozambique

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS); Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Linn Nygren; Julianne Lindner; [2015]
   Keywords : Mozambique; dis Empowerment model; Secondary School Students; Motivations; Ambitions; Options.;

   Abstract : Previous research attributed many positive developments to education, such as increasing employment opportunities, reducing gender inequality and stimulating empowerment. This research will, however, look more closely into what secondary education means to the students themselves by involving their own perceptions. READ MORE

6. 15. Improving the Political Prospects of Women in Malawi by Promoting Gender Equality : A minor field study in Mpasa Village in Malawi 2013

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Linda Jonsson; [2015]
   Keywords : Minor field study; Malawi; Political Empowerment; Gender Equality;

   Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to investigate the gender equality in Mpasa Community in Malawi by measuring the access to work, education, health, and political empowerment as measurements. An investigation of how the pre-colonial social structure, based on matriarchy, will determine to what extent the cultural factors affects gender equality. READ MORE