scholarly journals Women’s Empowerment in Lebanon: Impact evaluation of the project ‘Women’s access to justice in the Middle East and North Africa region'

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Lombardini ◽  
Marcella Vigneri
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Access To Justice

scholarly journals Women's Empowerment in the Philippines: Impact evaluation of the ‘BASIC START’ project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaynie Vonk
Keyword(s):  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Full Report ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Impact

This evaluation is presented as part of the Effectiveness Review Series 2018/19 on women’s empowerment. The BASIC START (Building Autonomous and Stable Institutions and Communities through Socially Cohesive, Transparent, Accountable and Responsive Transition) in the Bangsamoro' project was carried out in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in the Philippines between April 2015 and August 2017, by Oxfam together with four implementing partners: Al Mujadilah Development Foundation (AMDF), United Youth of the Philippines Women (UnYPhil-Women), Tarbilang Foundation, and Women Engaged in Action on 1325 (WE Act 1325). The project aimed to promote women's empowerment and peacebuilding in the region. A quasi-experimental approach was used to assess the impact of the project activities in strengthening women’s empowerment. The evaluation used Oxfam's Women's Empowerment (WE) index. Overall, the evaluation found that the BASIC START project had a positive impact on Women's Empowerment in all three levels investigated – personal, relational and environmental. Find out more by reading the evaluation brief or the full report.

scholarly journals Double Trouble: Analyzing the Impact of Statelessness on the Status of Kurdish Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Garfinkel
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Kurdish Women ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

The struggle of Kurdish women at large has been, as many media outlets suggested, an extraordinary and unique example of women’s status in the Middle East. In contrast to the widespread, surface-level narrative of Kurdish women’s empowerment, a complex political, socio-historical background of Kurdish statelessness has intensified women’s empowerment or oppression. This essay will demonstrate how nationalist ideology, autonomous spaces, and violent conflict may provide the conditions for a 'double revolution' and/or 'double oppression' of stateless Kurdish women through the lens of statelessness. These three features of statelessness intersect with unique features of the stateless Kurdish populations across the Middle East to determine a woman’s status. More specifically, the case of Syrian Kurdistan exemplifies a 'double revolution' while Iraqi Kurdistan exemplifies a case of 'double oppression' for Kurdish women.

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