scholarly journals The Influence of Sunflower Commercialisation and Diversity on Women's Empowerment: The Case of Iramba and Mkalama Districts, Singida Region

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devotha B. Mosha ◽  
John Jeckoniah ◽  
Aida Isinika ◽  
Gideon Boniface
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Cash Crops ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
And Control

There is a growing body of literature that argues that normally women derive little benefit from cash crops. Some of the barriers leading to women having less benefit from cash crop value chains include cultural norms and power differences in access to, and control over, resources among actors in value chains. It is also argued that women’s participation in different forms of collective action help women to increase benefits to them through their increased agency, hence enabling them to utilise existing and diverse options for their empowerment. This paper explores how women have benefited from their engagement in sunflower commercialisation and how culture has influenced changes in access to, and control over, resources, including land, for their empowerment.

scholarly journals KEKERASAN TERHADAP PEREMPUAN DAN PERCERAIAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF PEMBERDAYAAN PEREMPUAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Theresia Mutiara Galistya
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Gender Empowerment ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Control

<p><em>The achievement of Indonesian’s women empowerment through Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) shows an increase in the last eight years. On the other hand, the increasing trend is also seen in the percentage of violence against women. Ideally, the increase in GDI is followed by a decrease in acts of violence. A study of the 2017 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey’s data and also on the Annual Note of The Women's National Commission in 2018 is conduct to illustrate the conditions of women's empowerment, violence against women, and divorce as a result of violence. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive and comparative analysis. The results indicate that the two indicators of women's empowerment, that is women's participation in household decision making and women's control of her income were related to disagreement towards domestic violence. In general, the higher the participation and control that women have, the more women disagree with all reasons to justify beating husbands to wives. This shows that in the future this attitude can reduce domestic violence as a cause of divorce. However, this study needs a more comprehensive analysis. This study also recommends the need for strengthening gender-based legislation to eliminate violence against women and will have an impact on women welfare and family resilience.</em></p>

“It takes two”: Women’s empowerment in agricultural value chains

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Ragasa ◽  
Hazel J. Malapit ◽  
Deborah Rubin ◽  
Emily Myers ◽  
Audrey Pereira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Value Chains

scholarly journals Micro-finance and Women Empowerment

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puspa Raj Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Economic Status ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Credit Programs ◽  
Small Change ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Micro Credit

This paper examines the effects of women’s participation in group-based micro-credit pro-grams on a large set of qualitative responses to questions that characterize women’s autonomy and gender relations within the household. The data come from a special survey carried out in hill and tarai in 2004-2006 of Nepal. The results are consistent with the view that women’s participation in micro-credit programs helps to increase women’s empowerment. Credit program participation leads to women taking a greater role in household decision-making, having greater access to financial and economic resources, having greater social networks, having greater bargaining power compared with their husbands, and having greater freedom of mobility. Female credit also tended to increase spousal communication in general about family planning and parenting concerns. Ecologically, the higher impact on women’s empowerment was noticed in terai. The reason may be relatively lower social and economic status of terai women at the time of program initiation compared to that of hills. As a result, even a small change in their status would get reflected distinctly. The Journal of Nepalese Business Studies Vol. IV, No. 1 (2007) pp. 16-27

Understanding collective action and women's empowerment in potato farmer groups in Ntcheu and Dedza in Malawi

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 91-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Netsayi N. Mudege ◽  
Ted Nyekanyeka ◽  
Eliya Kapalasa ◽  
Tafadzwa Chevo ◽  
Paul Demo
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Farmer Groups ◽  
Potato Farmer

scholarly journals Women’s Empowerment and Community Norms Association on Women’s Access to Health Facility Delivery in Ethiopia. A Multilevel Analysis.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bekele
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Health ◽  
Health Facility ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Facility Delivery ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Health Facility Delivery ◽  
Community Norms ◽  
Proximate Factors ◽  
Maternal Health Outcomes

Abstract Background Health-care facility delivery was the most critical in ensuring the provision of high-quality care and a distribution location that was ready in the case of an emergency for reproductive women. However, maternal mortality remains high in African nations, and the majority of women were still giving birth at home. This study was aimed to determine whether women's empowerment and community norms, plus other proximate factors, are related to the health facility delivery utilization of women in Ethiopia. Methods The data for this study was taken from the Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) in Ethiopia of the 2019 cross-sectional survey. A weighted sample of 4864 women with at least one birth history, clustered within 264 clusters was used for this study. The impact of women's empowerment, cultural norms, and other proximate factors on the use of health facility deliveries among reproductive-age women across clusters in Ethiopia was studied using a two-level multilevel logistic regression. Results In Ethiopia, around 51 % of women were delivered their most recent child at the health facility. The use of a health facility delivery was more common among empowered women and those living in where the most people encourage a health facility delivery. Older women were less likely to deliver at a health facility and women from the highest wealth quantile more likely to have a facility delivery. Those women with higher education and living in an urban area were more likely to have a health facility delivery. Women’s chances of giving birth in health facilities vary significantly across the 264 clusters of Ethiopia ( σ_uo^2 =2.49,p.value<0.001). Conclusions This study emphasizes the importance of women's empowerment and cultural norms in enhancing maternal health outcomes of women in Ethiopia. It is more important than ever that the government and development agency should invest more in women's empowerment and raising community consciousness about the benefits of using health facility delivery as part of a strategic intervention to improve maternal health outcomes.

scholarly journals Gender analysis in empowering women-headed family in Mojosongo Village, Surakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Irma Maulidatul Husna
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
City Government ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Family Empowerment ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
And Control

This paper discusses the achievement for the level of equality in the women-headed family empowerment program in Kelurahan Mojosongo, Surakarta City. A woman is one of the population groups that are sustainable to poverty. Women experiencing poverty are women who become the head of the family. In Surakarta City, there are 11.502 women-headed families with a low welfare level. To resolve this problem, the Office of Women's Empowerment, Child Protection, and Community Empowerment (PPPAPM) of Surakarta made an innovation program by forming the Pekka (Women-Headed Family Empowerment) Forum in five poverty-stricken villages, one of which is Mojosongo. Kelurahan Mojosongo is a village that has the highest number of women-headed families, namely 727 people from five poverty-stricken villages. This study used gender analysis of the Longwe model to see the level of equality on women-headed family empowerment in Mojosongo, Surakarta City. The method used in this study was qualitative descriptive, and the data collection was obtained by observations, interviews, and documentation. The results of the study show that the level of equality in the women-headed family in Mojosongo only reached the second stage, namely access. Meanwhile, in the stages of awareness, participation and control have not been achieved. There are two implications of this study, namely practical and theoretical implications. For practical implications, the Surakarta City Government can use it as recommendations for empowerment programs, especially the women-headed family empowerment. The theoretical implications are expected to add to the research literature on gender analysis of the Longwe model in women's empowerment.

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