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| Abstract title: |
Womens empowerment and micro-finance programmes: strategies for increasing impact |
| Author: | Linda Mayoux |
| Issue: | Volume 8, Number 2 1998 |
The Small Enterprise Development Fund of the Department for International Development (DFID) of the British Government commissioned a literature review and held workshops, both co-ordinated by ActionAid UK, to assess the impact of micro-finance schemes on womens empowerment. Three broad approaches to micro-finance for women are identified as well as the constraints affecting impact in each case: approaches emphasising financial sustainability, integrated community development or feminist empowerment. The author provides a framework for assessing degrees of empowerment and presents a minimal gender strategy for micro-finance.
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