Publication: A Call to Dignity : How Indonesia's Women-Headed Household Empowerment Program (PEKKA) is Transforming Lives and Changing Development Paradigms
Date
2012
ISSN
Published
2012
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
Launched in 2001 in response to the
plight of a faction of poor women - the widows of the
conflict in Aceh Province - the Women-Headed Household
Empowerment Program (PEKKA) has mushroomed into a
community-driven phenomenon across eight provinces that
shows all signs of continued, rapid growth. Emphasizing
vision, capacity building, networking, and advocacy for
those at the lowest end of the social scale - poor single
women heads of households - the PEKKA spark has become a
blaze that seemed ready to ignite a national movement. A
program that helps the individuals that most aid programs
pass over - widows and single women household heads, PEKKA
also seeks to embolden poor Indonesian women to take charge
of their lives and engage in the development cycle as a
cooperative bloc.lt;BRgt;
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Citation
“World Bank. 2012. A Call to Dignity : How Indonesia's Women-Headed Household Empowerment Program (PEKKA) is Transforming Lives and Changing Development Paradigms. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/20818 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”