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
Coady Stands with People of Bangladesh
After weeks of protests, a student-led movement in Bangladesh morphed into a popular movement that led to the resignation of the former prime minister, Sheik Hasina. Such moments are delicate times...
ENGAGE: Increasing women’s participation in Haiti with Assuntha Fleurant (CLE)
As the research and women’s program coordinator at Centre Haitien du Leadership et de l’Excellence (CLE), Assuntha Fleurant’s time with the Engage: Women’s Empowerment and Active Citizenship project...
Sharing our Voices through Photography: Women’s Experiences with the Engage Program in Bangladesh
On a recent trip to Bangladesh, Engage project manager Eric Smith met with representatives of the Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) and travelled to the country’s...