The Missing Piece in the Empowerment Equation (Imagine Program)

IMAGINE empowers women in challenging life circumstances in developing world countries to envision and create new possibilities for their lives through participating in a four-day training program called the "Empowerment Workshop." This training program, developed by David Gershon and Gail Straub-pioneers of the field of empowerment and founders and co-directors of Empowerment Institute-has successfully been applied over the past thirty years in over forty countries worldwide. IMAGINE addresses the part in women's empowerment that is often missing-agency-which enables the traditional investments in outer resources such as education or microfinance to be more effective. IMAGINE is being implemented in six countries: Afghanistan, India, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, and has been culturally adapted.