Recorded September 19, 2005
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Women’s empowerment is a common goal of development organizations and donor agencies. However, we know relatively little about how and why education might empower women. This presentation describes results from a qualitative study that investigated the relationship between an alternative secondary education program, the Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial or SAT, and women’s empowerment in Garífuna villages on the northern coast of Honduras . Spanning grades 6-12, SAT provides educational opportunities for adolescents and adults in rural areas who otherwise would not have attended secondary school.
Erin Murphy-Graham is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley. Murphy-Graham has worked as an education consultant in Honduras , Nicaragua and Colombia and has co-authored articles on evaluation and policy influence, gender and secondary education in Latin America.