Women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from Bangladesh

How to survive and make ends meet and how to improve the quality of life are daily and persistent livelihood issues and liveability challenges preoccupying disadvantaged communities in underdeveloped and developing countries. In politically volatile and environmentally hazardous Bangladesh life st...

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Main Authors: Amriah Buang, Suryandari, Ratnawati Yuni, Habibah Ahmad, Kaseh A. Bakar, Hamzah Jusoh, Hazita Azman
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2015
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spelling ukm-91992016-12-14T06:49:16Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9199/ Women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from Bangladesh Amriah Buang, Suryandari, Ratnawati Yuni Habibah Ahmad, Kaseh A. Bakar, Hamzah Jusoh, Hazita Azman, How to survive and make ends meet and how to improve the quality of life are daily and persistent livelihood issues and liveability challenges preoccupying disadvantaged communities in underdeveloped and developing countries. In politically volatile and environmentally hazardous Bangladesh life struggles could be complex and challenging for womenfolk who more often than not are left on their own to cope with daily liveability problems. Through examining the findings from secondary information sources this paper illustrates three cases of how women helped make the best of empowerment projects geared to make the livelihood and liveability of themselves, their family and community better and more meaningful. It also highlights the institutional and organizational traits that were the success factors of the empowerment projects. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9199/1/1x.geografia-women-mei15-bangladesh-edam2.pdf Amriah Buang, and Suryandari, Ratnawati Yuni and Habibah Ahmad, and Kaseh A. Bakar, and Hamzah Jusoh, and Hazita Azman, (2015) Women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from Bangladesh. Geografia : Malaysian Journal of Society and Space, 11 (5). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2180-2491 http://www.ukm.my/geografia/v2/index.php?cont=a&item=2&thn=2015&vol=11&issue=5&ver=loc
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description How to survive and make ends meet and how to improve the quality of life are daily and persistent livelihood issues and liveability challenges preoccupying disadvantaged communities in underdeveloped and developing countries. In politically volatile and environmentally hazardous Bangladesh life struggles could be complex and challenging for womenfolk who more often than not are left on their own to cope with daily liveability problems. Through examining the findings from secondary information sources this paper illustrates three cases of how women helped make the best of empowerment projects geared to make the livelihood and liveability of themselves, their family and community better and more meaningful. It also highlights the institutional and organizational traits that were the success factors of the empowerment projects.
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author Amriah Buang,
Suryandari, Ratnawati Yuni
Habibah Ahmad,
Kaseh A. Bakar,
Hamzah Jusoh,
Hazita Azman,
spellingShingle Amriah Buang,
Suryandari, Ratnawati Yuni
Habibah Ahmad,
Kaseh A. Bakar,
Hamzah Jusoh,
Hazita Azman,
Women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from Bangladesh
author_facet Amriah Buang,
Suryandari, Ratnawati Yuni
Habibah Ahmad,
Kaseh A. Bakar,
Hamzah Jusoh,
Hazita Azman,
author_sort Amriah Buang,
title Women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from Bangladesh
title_short Women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from Bangladesh
title_full Women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from Bangladesh
title_fullStr Women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from Bangladesh
title_full_unstemmed Women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from Bangladesh
title_sort women and liveability – best practices of empowerment from bangladesh
publisher Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UKM,Bangi
publishDate 2015
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9199/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9199/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/9199/1/1x.geografia-women-mei15-bangladesh-edam2.pdf
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