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  2. Nari Shakti Puraskar - Wikipedia

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    Nari Shakti Puraskar. The Nari Shakti Puraskar (lit. 'Woman Power Award') is an annual award given by the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India to individual women or to institutions that work towards the cause of women empowerment. [1] It is the highest civilian honour for women in India, and is presented by the ...

  3. Commonwealth Youth Programme - Wikipedia

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    Commonwealth Youth Programme. The Commonwealth Youth Programme, also known as CYP, is an international development agency working with young people between the ages of 15 and 29. Part of the Commonwealth Secretariat, CYP is active in the Commonwealth's 54 member countries. CYP has a head office in London with four centers in Africa (Lusaka ...

  4. Ministry of Women and Child Development - Wikipedia

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    The broad mandate of Ministry is to have holistic development of Women and Children. As a nodal Ministry for the advancement of women and children, the Ministry formulates plans, policies and programmes; enacts/ amends legislation, guides and coordinates the efforts of both governmental and non-governmental organisations working in the field of Women and Child Development.

  5. Gender Development Index - Wikipedia

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    The Gender Development Index (GDI) is an index designed to measure gender equality. GDI, together with the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), was introduced in 1995 in the Human Development Report written by the United Nations Development Program. These measurements aimed to add a gender-sensitive dimension to the Human Development Index (HDI).

  6. 'I hear a whisper calling us to rise:' Teen Empowerment opens ...

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    Google images from 387 Genesee St. in Rochester provide a glimpse of change in the neighborhood. Teen Empowerment plans to build a $4.3 million youth center on the site where abandoned, burnt out ...

  7. Empowerment Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Empowerment Plan was established as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation in 2011, by Veronika Scott, who was a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. . Beginning as a school project, Scott initially designed the sleeping bag coat, called "Element S(urvival)" from the Tyvek home insulation and wool army blankets to help the homeless population of Detroit [2] in two ways: By ...

  8. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several method, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, equal status in society, better livelihood and training. [1][2][3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life ...

  9. Veronika Scott - Wikipedia

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    Veronika Scott is an American social entrepreneur and CEO and founder of The Empowerment Plan, a Detroit-based humanitarian organization. Personal life and education [ edit ] Scott was born on June 27, 1989, in Orange, California , but was raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan , a town just outside of Detroit.