Engage! Women’s Empowerment & Active Citizenship
“Engage” works primarily to support the leadership capacity of informal sector women in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, and Tanzania as they address key issues they are facing through asset-based, feminist approaches. Key areas include:
- the future of work
- participation in community governance
- women’s leadership and feminist approaches
- young women as entrepreneurs and agents of community change
- climate resilience and adaptation
- asset-based approaches to reducing urban and rural poverty through economic development
About the project
Engage is a 6.5 year initiative funded by Global Affairs Canada.
Knowledge & Impact
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Partners
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News and Events
Learning across borders: ‘Engage’ fellows at CASAE Conference
In May 2025, nearly one hundred students and practitioners of adult education gathered at Coady Institute, St. Francis Xavier University for the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education...
Lessons in Adaptability for Canadian Youth Interns in Bangladesh
As a member of the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation (ACIC), Coady Institute has supported the International Youth Internship Program (IYIP) by facilitating connections between ACIC and...
New Report: Assessment of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Domestic Violence – The Case of WISE SACCOs
Gender-based violence is a persistent threat to women’s empowerment in Ethiopia, as it is globally. Therefore, Engage partner, Women in Self Employment (WISE), developed a mixed-methods study to...