{"id":6019,"date":"2015-07-21T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2015-07-22T11:42:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T11:42:38","slug":"awdf-publishes-womens-economic-empowerment-policy-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/awdf-publishes-womens-economic-empowerment-policy-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"AWDF Publishes Women&#8217;s Economic Empowerment Policy Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"en\">The African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF)\u00a0has published a <em>Women\u2019s Economic Empowerment Policy Brief<\/em>, a comprehensive document on the Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods of African Women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">This policy document is based on the critical contributions and outcomes\u00a0of the <a href=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/the-african-womens-development-fund-awdf-to-convene-an-equity-power-and-livelihoods-strategic-meeting-in-cape-town-south-africa\/\">2013 AWDF convening on Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods<\/a> in Cape Town, South Africa, from the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-4<sup>th<\/sup> of May, ahead of the World Economic Forum Africa meeting, \u201cDelivering on Africa\u2019s Promise\u201d.\u00a0The conversation\u00a0brought together stakeholders \u2013 donors, grantee partners, researchers and policy makers- to discuss the recognition of\u00a0African women\u2019s economic empowerment as central to women\u2019s equality and broader development goals of economic growth and poverty reduction.\u00a0The document captures the daily\u00a0struggles of African women and the steps they are taking to\u00a0improve their lives economically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>&#8220;We hope that this document will\u00a0influence discussions and decisions around recognising and\u00a0improving women\u2019s economic participation and development\u00a0in Africa and globally.&#8221; says Nafi Chinery, AWDF\u2019s Capacity Building Programme Specialist.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><a href=\"http:\/\/africlub.net\/awdf\/awdf-womens-economic-empowerment-policy-brief\/\">Click here to download the complete policy brief<\/a><\/span>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,1],"tags":[1063,257,345,981,982,1062,719],"class_list":["post-6019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press","category-uncategorized","tag-brief","tag-economic-empowerment","tag-empowerment","tag-equity","tag-livelihoods","tag-policy","tag-world-economic-forum"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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