ABSTRACT
The use of sport to empower women and girls is discussed in this chapter in two parts. Firstly, this chapter will address the nascence of work that critically explores women’s and girls’ experiences in SFD programming by providing a case study of the Girl’s Empowerment through Cricket programme that is delivered in Papua New Guinea. The initiative specifically aimed to empower young women and girls by increasing their critical awareness of sociocultural issues related to health, gender inequality and domestic violence. Second, the chapter will propose a theory or reading of empowerment that can be used by researchers to conceptualise programme outcomes in highly constrained sociocultural contexts. Consequently, the research lens focuses specifically on women and girls in low- and middle-income countries and how empowerment can be productively understood in such settings.
