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Introduction: Innovations in Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Understanding the Role of International Development Volunteers as Transnational Actors

By CSD • December 16, 2021March 8, 2022

This articles serves as introduction to a special issue published in Voluntaris under the same title. It conceptualizes international development volunteers as development actors and identifies gaps in knowledge about their contributions. The article also introduces a collaborative and participatory study undertaken by an international team of scholars to examine those contributions to gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Project: Contributions of International Volunteering to Gender Equality

Citation

Tiessen, R., & Lough, B. J. (2021). Introduction: Innovations in gender equality and women’s empowerment: Understanding the role of international development volunteers as transnational actors. Voluntaris, Special issue, 7–43. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924951-7

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2021Benjamin LoughContributions of International Volunteers to Gender Equalityinternational serviceRebecca Tiessenservice learningvolunteerismwomen

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