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Building Leaders for Development - The Global Women in Management program
Date Published: 14 August 2008 Document Type: Briefs & Fact Sheets Issue: Capacity Building, Leadership Development, Social Mobilization, Training Languages: English Purchase Method: Download |
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Study after study has shown that investing in women advances community development. Institutions including the World Bank have documented how increasing women’s educational attainment and promoting their equal opportunity in the labor force and public life can reduce poverty and promote national growth. Investing in women also greatly enhances the well-being of families and their children, who are more likely to survive and thrive if their mothers are healthy and educated. For more than 30 years, the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) has trained developing-country women—and committed men and young people—to advance international development and change the social and political context that impedes opportunity for women and girls. The Global Women in Management program is CEDPA’s longest running training program, with thousands of graduate worldwide. The program responds to today’s development context that demands greater levels of management accountability and programmatic results by providing rigorous leadership and management training that builds women’s skills to run successful organizations.