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Módulo 7 - Estar Económicamente Empoderada (01-10)
Módulo 7 - Estar Económicamente Empoderada (01-10)
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MODULE 7
C H A N G E
OF EC O N O M I C A L LY E M P O W E R E D
BEING
Champions of Change for Girls’ Rights and Gender Equality is Plan
International’s community wide strategy for promoting gender equality and
social norm change through youth engagement and peer-to-peer mobilisation.
The Girls Champions of Change curriculum is Plan’s comprehensive global
curriculum for girls’ empowerment. The curriculum includes engaging,
adaptable activities that encourage girls to build knowledge, attitudes
and skills based on their own lived experience. The program is the sister
curriculum to the Boys Champions of Change curriculum.
Overall concept and guidance:
Alex Munive, Head of Gender Equality and Inclusion
Lucero Quiroga, Gender Equality
Specialist Content specialist for this module:
Carolina Zuñiga, Economic Empowerment Specialist
Edited by
Natasha Brownlee, Gender Equality Specialist
Special thanks for their inputs to this module to:
John Barret Trew, Marcela Henao, Daniel Molina, Henry Salas, John Schiller,
Anja Stuckert, and Marcela Werutski.
Diseño e ilustración:
Tripl3salto, www.triplesalto.es
This module may be copied for use in training, education or research,
providing the source is acknowledged. It may not be reproduced for other
purposes without the prior permission of Plan.
Plan International (2018) Being Economically Empowered. In Girls
Champions of Change: Curriculum for Gender Equality and Girls Rights.
Woking, UK: Plan International
ISBN: 978-92-9250-025-2
SNAPSHOT: BEING ECONOMICALLY
EMPOWERED
This module explores the barriers and opportunities girls have for
economic success and offers three tools for ensuring their own
economic empowerment: savings, role models and support programs and institutions. All
activities in this module are for all ages. Some activities apply only to girls with access to
cash savings or income
from allowance, paid work, or gifts.
Setting the Stage 4
Topics include the gendered division of labour, economic rights, the cycle of poverty, economic
goals and savings, financial literac , support networks and institutions, and planning for the future.
Economic Empowerment = The ABILITY to decisions succeed + The POWER to make economic