Month: March 2017
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Same recipe, different geography: Holistic approaches are smart for girls and women everywhere
By Tricia Petruney, FHI 360 Here’s a development scenario you’re probably familiar with: Imagine a young girl growing up in a remote rural area, raised in a poor family. Girls here are not typically encouraged in the same way as boys are to imagine themselves having exciting future careers, nor even the more vanilla option…
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Silos are Sexist
As Locus members, we are committed to integrated programming, but why? And why does it seem to be such an uphill struggle in a world where the prevailing development paradigm is dominated by top-down, narrowly focused, short-term interventions? The most important reason to pursue integrated programming is that it works for women. Women living in…
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Building a Different World of Work for Women and Girls
By Gregory Adams, Locus Women and girls provide much of the labor and talent that makes our communities work. But they routinely don’t get the pay, opportunities or esteem that men do. International Women’s Day forces us to pay special attention to the variety of challenges that women and girls face, particularly in the world…
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CSW 2017 – Leave No Woman’s Voice Behind: Community-led Development at Scale
The Movement for Community-led Development will once again host a parallel event during the 61st Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.