Engage

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

Op-ed: 20 Million Face Masks

Op-ed: 20 Million Face Masks

By Yogesh Ghore and Farouk Jiwa As the world responds to the Covid-19 pandemic, a pressing and immediate issue is the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) for the front-line health workers...

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