Quiet revolution? Women’s collective empowerment and BRAC
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BRAC’s focus on women and community organisations in the 1970s was lauded as bringing forth “a quiet revolution.” We explore evolution of selected programs that built forums argue while BRAC successfully retained its women’s inclusion, approach to collective empowerment is marked by contradictions. The shifts funding structures emphasised individual empowerment, organisation’s emphasis scaling up at expense investing building organisations, accommodation patriarchal norms prevent backlash from local actors – all resulted trade-offs, limiting programming empowerment.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Development in Practice
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1364-9213', '0961-4524']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2023.2185182