TY - JOUR
T1 - Institutional Capacity Building for Rural Women's Empowerment
AU - de Rooij, S.J.G.
N1 - Twelfth session of the Working Party for Women and the Family in Rural Development, 18-21 October 2004, Nitra, Slowakia
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Basically, women¿s empowerment is the process (and its outcomes) in which women ¿ individually and collectively- become active, knowledgeable and goal-oriented actors who take and/ or support initiatives to overcoming gender inequalities. Hence, women¿s empowerment refers to a strategy to achieve gender equality as well as to the inherent capacity building processes. Institutional capacity aimed at women¿s empowerment is not a clearly defined concept. Yet, effective capacity building requires conceptual clarification and common understanding among institutional actors. Therefore the following questions need to be answered: what do I mean by institutional capacity? How can it be developed? More specifically, how can it contribute to rural women¿s empowerment and gender equality?
AB - Basically, women¿s empowerment is the process (and its outcomes) in which women ¿ individually and collectively- become active, knowledgeable and goal-oriented actors who take and/ or support initiatives to overcoming gender inequalities. Hence, women¿s empowerment refers to a strategy to achieve gender equality as well as to the inherent capacity building processes. Institutional capacity aimed at women¿s empowerment is not a clearly defined concept. Yet, effective capacity building requires conceptual clarification and common understanding among institutional actors. Therefore the following questions need to be answered: what do I mean by institutional capacity? How can it be developed? More specifically, how can it contribute to rural women¿s empowerment and gender equality?
M3 - Article
SN - 1505-0297
VL - 8
SP - np
JO - Electronic Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities
JF - Electronic Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities
IS - 3
ER -
