Accelerating Women’s Empowerment Through Legal Empowerment and Social Accountability Strategies

Raffaella Pizzamiglio and Pamela Kovacs

Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2021, vol. 22, issue 3, 517-526

Abstract: While legal empowerment (LE) and social accountability (SA) strategies have evolved separately, they share common aims and overriding principles. Both promote human rights and social justice and provide knowledge and skills to individuals and communities to act and seek solutions to problems through grassroots education, mobilisation and empowerment. Further, they help strengthen participatory decision-making and power-sharing between poor and marginalised communities and state authorities. This article reviews the International Development Law Organization’s (IDLO’s) approach in integrating LE and SA strategies for HIV prevention programming among adolescent girls and young women and its promising potential for women’s empowerment.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2021.1890005

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