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Latin American (Spanish)
Module 1 - Trends, issues and approaches: An overview - pdf 1.000 kb
- Gives overview of trends on poverty, employment and gender
- Discusses different concepts of poverty and social exclusion
- Reviews linkages between development paradigms, strategies and poverty eradication
- Links gender, employment and poverty
Module 2 - Organizational and negotiating power: Ability to initiate change - pdf 667 kb
- Emphasizes importance of empowerment through organization
- Reviews alternative strategies for organization-building from a gender lens
- Analyses issues of social acceptability, financial viability and political autonomy
Module 3 - Access to assets - pdf 655 kb
- Analyses gender inequalities with regards rights of use and control over land and other physical assets
- Looks at some strategies for reducing inequalities, such as legal reforms, land reform and resettlement, reforestation, urban land upgrading, and their impact on women's rights
- Proposes that women's rights to land and other assets can be enhanced through mutually reinforcing measures covering policy and legal reform, and direct assistance
Module 4 - Financial resources for the poor: Focus on credit - pdf 624 kb
- Identifies obstacles faced by the poor, and particularly women, to access to credit services
- Compares alternative mechanisms and approaches to the provision of financial services
- Analyses lessons learned and implications for future
Module 5 - Investing in human capital: Focus on training - pdf 946 kb
- Analyses inequalities experienced by the poor and women with regards access to education and training
- Reviews different training schemes, non-formal and formal
- Identifies some new approaches
Module 6 - Expanding wage employment - pdf 1.247 kb
- Highlights main factors and process of discrimination women face in wage labour market
- Reviews some strategies for enhancing women's access to paid jobs, including special employment generation schemes
- Identifies main elements of a gender-sensitive wage employment promotion strategy
Module 7 - Extending social protection - pdf 1.223 kb
- Focuses on the issue of vast sectors of workers in employment arrangements that fall outside of conventional, formal forms of social protection
- Addresses two questions:
- How can social protection be extended to women workers in the informal economy and atypical forms of employment
- How can social protection measures be linked to poverty eradication
Module 8 - Social Funds - pdf 1.152 kb
- Assesses the gender and employment dimensions of social funds across developing countries
- Identifies issues and weaknesses, and good practices
- Proposes ways for effectively mainstreaming a gender perspective in social fund programmes
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