United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

Consequences of Literacy for Women at the Village Level (in collaboration with Dr. Iffat Farah, Karachi)

Proposed Duration: 30 May 2001 - 30 July 2001

Objectives:

• To find out the changes which might have come about in a village (especially in the women) as a result of literacy programmes.

• To discover the changes in broad areas of social and cultural behaviour: marriage and family life, income generation, personal independence and decision–making, health and hygiene, and education.

• To find out more about objectives and contents of the literacy programme for rural women.

• To find out whether women’s attitude, behaviour and actions affect the men of the family and locality, and the children.

Activities:

• Questionnaire prepared and approved;

• Data collected and analyzed from villages of Punjab and Sindh;

• Presentation made and a research report compiled.