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The three areas of WEMC's work - research, capacity building, and communication - are guided by these objectives:
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To document, analyse and multiply women's empowerment strategies that successfully transform structures of disempowerment
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To make visible, validate and strengthen women's agency as insiders challenging disempowering structures and promoting democratization
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To build analytical capacity and strategic alliances that catalyse transformative research and actions
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To pinpoint ways whereby good governance, democratization, and appropriate development can strengthen and support women's agency
   
  The overarching research concern of WEMC is to understand how women can and do empower themselves in the face of disempowering forces that often attempt to legitimise themselves through culture and religion. WEMC aims to develop a critical mass of new knowledge for strengthening the capacity of women and civil society to engender long-term changes in policy and practice that are supportive of women's empowerment in Muslim contexts. To achieve this, WEMC seeks to disseminate transformative knowledge of women's empowerment to marginalized women, to agents of change, and to power-holders who need to reform.  
     
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