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ASIA FOUNDATION
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
Direct Link to Video: The Story of Nau-ehri, a
Karen Tribe Woman Member, Living in the Remote Hills of Northern Thailand:.
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The Asia Foundation operating premise is that improving social,
economic, and political opportunities for women improves societies as a whole.
The Asia Foundation seeks to identify change agents, build constituencies for
reform around key issues affecting women’s status, and promote internal efforts
to identify and solve problems.
Our programs transfer tools, strategies, and lessons learned, foster synergies,
and promote cooperation within and across borders. Mobilizing women has proved
powerful in order to accelerate progress in each country, through facilitating
networking, coordination, and collaboration among women and women’s groups.
Programs involve women at all stages, thus ensuring that issues identified and
strategies utilized are appropriate to each country or region’s
socio-cultural-political context. Providing linkages with like-minded allies in
government and civil society and with international networks and organizations
creates greater support for their efforts so that reform is promoted from
within and from without. Programs are broad-spectrum and flexible, empowering
women themselves to challenge the multiple causes and consequences of their
subordination and discrimination, and are customized and targeted to specific
country contexts.
The Foundation has decades of experience in designing and implementing
innovative programs to improve women’s social, economic, and political
opportunities and enhance women’s legal and human rights. Extensive in-country
and regional networks, long-term relationships, and more than a decade of
experience give the Foundation credibility, access, sources of innovation, and
the necessary tools to complete pilot projects and larger scale interventions
that can influence systems.
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