A.W. Inc Center For Young Women is a youth development organization, devoted to the mentorship and personal development of Bahamian young women.
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Fast forward to this year when I met with Claire Charamnac, the 23-year-old cofounder of Women LEAD, a leadership development organization for young women in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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She was then due to travel to Islamabad for talks with the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's advisor on women's development, Nilofer Bakhtiar.
Vandana Krishna, the state's secretary of Women and Child Development, says the funding gap could be solved by giving village panchayats, or local governments, a special fund to make loans to anganwadis.
The Women's Development Minister in Rajasthan, Zakia Innam, said in an interview with the BBC that the proposals will also improve family planning in the state because they would help reduce the number of under-age pregnancies.
The work of people such as Zainab Salbi, the founder and CEO of the organization Women for Women International is crucial in shifting the focus of development efforts onto women.
While it's true that economic and social development leads to women having smaller families, the converse is also true -- that the gains that contraception has made possible in women's health make family planning one of the most successful international development stories.
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Borg wants to see more women involved in the development of technology from the get-go.
Gender equality is one of our global strategic priorities because there can be no sustainable development when women do not enjoy equal rights and opportunities.
Myrna Lim is the Executive Director of the Notre Dame Foundation for Charitable Activities, including Women in Education and Development, in the Philippines since 1992.
The awards honour women contributing to significant development in technology.
Today, with this release, Catalyst takes the sting out of the Queen Bee myth by presenting such facts as: 65 percent of women who received career development support are developing new talent (compared to 56 percent of men), and 73 percent of those women are developing other women (as compared to 30 percent of men).
With a full-scale Commons debate on violence against women due on Thursday, the International Development Committee (at 9.30am) takes evidence on Violence against Women and Girls, from NGOs, international campaigners and detectives from Metropolitan Police Child Abuse Investigation Command.
Women are looking for career development as well as making a contribution to the nation.
The campaign has been organised by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, supported by human-rights and women's groups.
To these ends, UNESCO has created networks for media professionals and is offering training and career development opportunities for women journalists.
Other side events organized by UNESCO cover the areas of water resources, young women in science for sustainable development, and engineering for sustainable development.
The report, from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem), acknowledges that it is deeply embedded in the history and traditions of many societies.
We can empower women and meet the Millennium Development Goals.
Empowering women is a precondition for development, prosperity, and security.
It was organised by UNESCO in co-operation with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Organisation for African Unity and the African Women Committee for Peace and Development.
As a goodwill ambassador for the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Kidman drew attention to the stalled International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), a domestic effort to address violence against women globally.
"The number of sites reaching out to women that focus on career development are far fewer than there should be, " says Damsels investor John Abeles with Northlea Partners, a venture capital firm in Boca Raton, Fla.
According to a recent Committee for Economic Development report on women on boards, as other countries institute board diversity quotas, they may consider board-ready American women to hit their more aggressive targets for women directors.
Remake leadership and emphasize attributes that women demonstrate, such as relationship development and collaboration.
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Warm's project manager, Sithembile Ndema, says it empowers women to engage policy makers and development organisations in generating innovative solutions.
Back home in Gorakhpur, he had founded a group that he intended to focus on women's empowerment and child development.
Although FGM, or taking someone abroad for the procedure, is illegal in the UK, research by Forward (Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development) found more than 20, 000 girls in England and Wales were at risk.
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Although just 10 of more than 500 members of the new parliament are women, the signal we received is that Egyptian women are committed to expanding their influence and their ranks, and to ensuring that the constitution under development will fully protect the rights of women in Egypt.
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