Pathways to women’s empowerment: Navigating the hybrid social order in eastern DRC.

The United Nations’ Agenda 2030 aims to achieve gender equality as part of the 5th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). Yet, the way to reach this goal remains under-researched – particularly in rural, conflict-affected communities in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This paper uses the donorfunded, community-driven reconstruction programme ‘Tuungane’ as the foundation on which to analyse changes in gender norms in the...