women’s voices from citizen-driven workshops on the post-2015 framework held in 13 African countries
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- Digitaal
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, basisbeweging, politiek, empowerment, emancipatie, Afrika, 2010-2019, 21e eeuw
- Description
- 'This report has attempted to give voice to grassroots women in the complex political and consensus building process that will result in the post-2015 development framework. In doing this ACORD aims to ensure that women’s contributions form the basis of the recommendations and resolutions that will be adopted on gender equality and women’s empowerment. While a number of the grassroots voices portray women as victims, other voices captured herein espouse women’s agency. For ACORD, this balance is very important in the debate on women’s empowerment. The reality of many grassroots women is indeed that of inhibited freedoms. Conceptually, our argument is that women’s demonstrated capacities to lead and make decisions is the basis on which they should be supported as power-dispensers and decision makers at all levels.'