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Volume 8, Numéro 2

• Editorial
  • Editorial 8(2)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • Violence sanctionnée: le développement et la persécution des femmes en tant que sorcières dans le sud du Bihar
    Roy, Puja
  • La violence masculine à l'encontre des femmes dans le Bangladesh rural: amoindrie ou exacerbée par les programmes de micro-crédit?
    Schuler, Sidney Ruth; Hashemi, Syed M; Badal, Shamsul Huda
  • L’institutionalisation du ‘genre’ dans les ONG du Royaume-Uni
    Wallace, Tina
  • `Genre' perdu et `genre' retrouvé: le programme d'apprentissage-action de qualité de BRAC en matière de `genre'
    Rao, Aruna; Kelleher, David
  • Comment aborder l'autonomie parmi les femmes sahéliennes: un cadre analytique pour le travail productif féminin
    Simard, Paule
• Point de Vue
  • Power, institutions and gender relations: can gender training alter the equations?
    Murthy, Ranjani K.
  • Economic crisis helps to `demarginalise' women
    Lema Forje, Catherine
  • Analysis and advocacy on a European policy on conflict prevention: a viewpoint
    Van Brabant, Koenraad
• Notes Pratiques
  • Empowerment at village level through a workshop method
    Ullah Tareen, Ehsan; Abu Omar, Mayeh
  • Slum dwellers' diagnosis of their own needs: implications for community development in Nigeria
    Nwangwu, Rosemary E.
  • Testing environmental impacts of development projects
    Verneirt, Marc; Devuyst, Dimitri; Buys, Jos; Hens, Luc
• Synthèses de Recherche
  • Women's empowerment and micro-finance programmes: strategies for increasing impact
    Mayoux, Linda
  • The informal pharmaceuticals market in the Democratic Republic of Congo
    Nsahaza Bishikwabo, Kizito
• Critiques de Livres

Women's empowerment and micro-finance programmes: strategies for increasing impact

Mayoux, Linda

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 women's 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.

Mots clés: Travail et moyens de subsistence; Genre et diversité sociale; Aide internationale; Europe occidentale et du Sud

   

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