Empowerment is about people -both women and men taking control over their lives: setting their own agendas, gaining skills, building self-confidence, solving problems and developing self-reliance. No one can empower another: only the individual can empower herself or himself to make choices or to speak out. However, institutions including international cooperation agencies can support processes that can nurture the self-empowerment of individuals or groups.
Gender equality is fundamentally related to sustainable development and is part of delivering our commitments to equal human rights for all. Within the organizations of persons with visual disabilities, gender equality and the empowerment of women are extremely vital as women and men face different challenges in full participation, representation and decent work
opportunities.
It is, therefore, a shared responsibility of all to adopt policies,
plans and measures that lead toward equality and reduce intersectional
discrimination based on gender, ensuring at the same time equitable
access to resources and basic services to obtain an inclusive and gender-responsive organization. This toolkit, which is the product of a co-funded EU activity, is designed to be used by organizations of the visually impaired. It is produced and released in a special year, as 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and the Beijing Platform for Action, the outcomes of the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women.
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