tailieunhanh - Exploring Linkages: Women’s Empowerment, Microfinance and Health Education

Teaching about literacy and numeracy, involves many learning experiences over all the years of schooling. The time allocated to these areas and others such as science, historical and social studies, culture and the arts etc., is always in excess of the time available for health. Simply, there is very little time in the curriculum to achieve many of the educational goals of health education, let alone the wishes of the health sector for the adoption of practices conducive to better health. In addition, health is one of several subject areas or sectors, which believe that they are under-represented in the. | Exploring Linkages Women s Empowerment Microfinance and Health Education Exploring Linkages Women s Empowerment Microfinance and Health Education United Nations Population Fund and Research and Applications for Alternative Financing for Development in collaboration with microfinance institutions . with increased status independence income and negotiating power women are better able to exercise their right to sexual and reproductive health. And when women are better off so are families and societies. Women s empowerment and participation is essential to economic growth democracy and social justice and human rights. --Thoraya A. Obaid Executive Director UNFPA Remarks from a panel discussion hosted by UNFPA and the Microcredit Summit Campaign in conjunction with the 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women March 2006 . Weblink http gender micro htm 2 Readers may be interested in two related publications of UNFPA UNFPA 2006 . From Microfinance to Macro Change Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty. UNFPA 2008 . Financing Healthier Lives Empowering Women through Integration of Microfinance and Health Education. Both are available online at publications. 2010 United Nations Population Fund