文档介绍：WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN MICRO-FINANCE:
EVIDENCE, ISSUES AND WAYS FORWARD
LINDA MAYOUX Dr Linda Mayoux is an independent consultant. She would e correspondence on any of the points raised in the paper. E-mail L.******@dial.. Postal address 61, Cheney Way, Cambridge CB4 1UE UK. Tel +44 1223 501030. This paper was originally produced for the One World Action web site on microfinance women's empowerment . It summarises and further develops discussion in a number of earlier papers, particularly Mayoux 1998a,b, 1999a,b 2000a,b and 2002.
We do not only want a piece of of the pie,
we also want to choose the flavour,
and know how to make it ourselves. (Ela Bhatt, SEWA quoted Rose 1992)
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INTRODUCTION
Micro-finance programmes targeting women became a major plank of donor poverty alleviation and gender strategies in the 1990s. Funding is set to further increase under current initiatives by CGAP and member donor agencies Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest is a major international collaborative initiative arising from the 1993 International Conference on Actions to Reduce Global Hunger and was formally constituted in 1995. The nine founding members are Canada, France, herlands, the United States, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, the United Nations Development Programme\United Nations Capital Development Fund and the World Bank later followed by Australia, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Inter-American Development Bank. By early1996 approximately US $200 million (including existing mitments) was pledged to Micro-Finance pr