Glossary

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Total fertility rate

The average number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year.

Trafficking in women

Illicit and clandestine movement of persons across national and international borders with the end goal of forcing women and girl-children into sexually or economically oppressive and exploitative situations for the profit of recruiters, traffickers, crime syndicates as well as other illegal activities related to trafficking such as forced domestic labour, false marriage, clandestine employment and forced adoption.

Transformatory potential

The concepts of transformatory potential takes the discussion of practical and strategic needs one step further. It means that development interventions should be examined to see which intervention will have the most potential to radically transform lives.

Thus, transformatory potential can be used as a working tol to assess activities and interventions by the following criteria.

Will the activity, programme or strategy under consideration serve to increase the social status of the target group? Enhance their economic or personal empowerment? Increase their decision-making capacity?

To effect the above an aditional question would need to be asked: What would need to be added to this programme/activity to ensure that the activity was capable of assisting in such a transformation?

Total fertility rate

The average number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year.