scholarly journals Women’s empowerment, extended families and male migration in Nepal: Insights from mixed methods analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl R. Doss ◽  
Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick ◽  
Audrey Pereira ◽  
Rajendra Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Male Migration ◽  
Extended Families

scholarly journals Content Validity of the Abbreviated Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A‐WEAI) in Ethiopia: A Mixed Methods Approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Min‐Barron ◽  
Jennifer Coates ◽  
Shibani Ghosh ◽  
Beatrice Rogers ◽  
John Maluccio
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach

scholarly journals EVALUASI KEBIJAKAN PEMBERDAYAAN EKONOMI PEREMPUAN MELALUI PROGRAM DESA PEREMPUAN INDONESIA MAJU MANDIRI (PRIMA) DI KELURAHAN LOK BAHU KECAMATAN SUNGAI KUNJANG KOTA SAMARINDA

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Ratih Fenty Anggriani Bintoro ◽  
Abdullah Karim ◽  
Enos Paselle
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Family Welfare ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Male Population ◽  
Training Material ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Left Behind

ABSTRAKHasil Susenas Tahun 2010 menunjukkan bahwa jumlah penduduk laki laki sebesar 50,17 persen, sedangkan perempuan sebesar 49,83 persen.  Walaupun jumlahnya hampir seimbang, namun fakta empiris menunjukkan bahwa kualitas hidup perempuan masih lebih rendah daripada kaum laki-laki.  Perempuan mengalami ketertinggalan dalam banyak hal, salah satunya ketertinggalan dalam aspek ekonomi.  Berbagai upaya dalam menyelesaikan ketertinggalan tersebut telah dilakukan oleh berbagai pihak contohnya Kementerian Pemberdayaan Perempuan melalui program Desa Perempuan Indonesia Maju Mandiri (PRIMA).  Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi pelaksanaan kebijakan pemberdayaan ekonomi perempuan melalui program Desa Perempuan Indonesia Maju Mandiri (PRIMA) di Kelurahan Lok Bahu Kecamatan Sungai Kunjang Kota Samarinda dengan fokus penelitian pada aspek relevansi, efektivitas serta keberlanjutan program.  Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kombinasi (mixed methods) untuk mendapatkan deskripsi yang mendalam tentang pelaksanaan program Desa PRIMA di Kelurahan Lok Bahu Kecamatan Sungai Kunjang Kota Samarinda serta faktor pendukung dan penghambat pelaksanaan progam tersebut. Data didapatkan melalui penyebaran kuesioner, wawancara, observasi dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa program Desa PRIMA memenuhi kriteria relevansi (relevan dengan kebutuhan perempuan), efektivitas (ketepatan sasaran program dan pencapaian tujuan program khususnya untuk peningkatan keterampilan manajemen usaha serta peningkatan pendapatan) dan keberlanjutan (layak untuk dilanjutkan).  Namun program ini tidak memenuhi kriteria efektivitas peningkatan kesejahteraan keluarga.  Faktor yang mendukung pelaksanaan Desa PRIMA adalah dukungan kondisi lingkungan, hubungan antar organisasi serta sumber daya manusia.  Sedangkan yang menghambat adalah sumber daya finansial (anggaran).  Rekomendasi yang dapat diberikan adalah perlunya pemetaan kebutuhan materi pelatihan, perlunya peningkatan motivasi kewirausahaan dan pembangunan jejaring antar pelaku usaha serta komitmen anggaran untuk keberlanjutan program.Kata kunci: Pemberdayaan Perempuan, Desa PRIMA, Samarinda. ABSTRACTThe results of SUSENAS 2010 show that the total male population is 50,17 %, while the female population is 49,83 %.  Although the numbers are almost equal, empirical facts show that the quality of life for women is still lower than men.  Women are left behind in many ways, for example in economic aspect.  Various parties have made various efforts to resolve this gap, for example the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment through PRIMA Village program.  This study aims to evaluate the implementation of women's economic empowerment policies through PRIMA Village program in Lok Bahu Village, Sungai Kunjang Subdistrict, Samarinda City, with a research focus on aspects of relevance, effectiveness and sustainability of the program.  This study uses mixed methods in order to get description about the implementation of the PRIMA Village program and also the supporting and inhibiting factors for the implementation of the program.  Data obtained through questionnaires, interviews, observation and documentation. The results show that the PRIMA Village program meets the criteria of relevance (relevant to the needs of women), effectiveness (accuracy of program goals and achievement of program objectives specifically for improving business management skills and increasing income) and sustainability (worth continuing).  However, this program does not meet the effectiveness criteria for improving family welfare.  The supporting factors of the implementation of PRIMA Village are the support of environmental conditions, relations between organizations and human resources.  Whereas the obstacle is financial resources (budget).  Recommendations that can be given are the need to map training material needs, the need to increase entrepreneurial motivation and build networks among business actors as well as a budget commitment for program sustainability.Keywords : Women’s Empowerment, PRIMA Village, Samarinda.

scholarly journals Cash for Women’s Empowerment? A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Government of Zambia’s Child Grant Program

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 55-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Bonilla ◽  
Rosa Castro Zarzur ◽  
Sudhanshu Handa ◽  
Claire Nowlin ◽  
Amber Peterman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Mixed Methods Evaluation ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
The Government

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs Through Microfinance - A Case of Rural Bangladesh

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Saida Parvin
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Donor Agencies ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

Women’s empowerment has been at the centre of research focus for many decades. Extant literature examined the process, outcome and various challenges. Some claimed substantial success, while others contradicted with evidence of failure. But the success remains a matter of debate due to lack of empirical evidence of actual empowerment of women around the world. The current study aimed to address this gap by taking a case study method. The study critically evaluates 20 cases carefully sampled to include representatives from the entire country of Bangladesh. The study demonstrates popular beliefs about microfinance often misguide even the borrowers and they start living in a fabricated feeling of empowerment, facing real challenges to achieve true empowerment in their lives. The impact of this finding is twofold; firstly there is a theoretical contribution, where the definition of women’s empowerment is proposed to be revisited considering findings from these cases. And lastly, the policy makers at governmental and non-governmental organisations, and multinational donor agencies need to revise their assessment tools for funding.

Women’s Education May Be Even Better Than We Thought: Estimating the Gains from Education When Schooling Ain’t Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Kaffenberger ◽  
Lant Pritchett
Keyword(s):  
Child Mortality ◽  
Women's Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Life Outcomes ◽  
Primary Schooling ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Practices ◽  
Attenuation Bias

Women’s schooling has long been regarded as one of the best investments in development. Using two different cross-nationally comparable data sets which both contain measures of schooling, assessments of literacy, and life outcomes for more than 50 countries, we show the association of women’s education (defined as schooling and the acquisition of literacy) with four life outcomes (fertility, child mortality, empowerment, and financial practices) is much larger than the standard estimates of the gains from schooling alone. First, estimates of the association of outcomes with schooling alone cannot distinguish between the association of outcomes with schooling that actually produces increased learning and schooling that does not. Second, typical estimates do not address attenuation bias from measurement error. Using the new data on literacy to partially address these deficiencies, we find that the associations of women’s basic education (completing primary schooling and attaining literacy) with child mortality, fertility, women’s empowerment and the associations of men’s and women’s basic education with positive financial practices are three to five times larger than standard estimates. For instance, our country aggregated OLS estimate of the association of women’s empowerment with primary schooling versus no schooling is 0.15 of a standard deviation of the index, but the estimated association for women with primary schooling and literacy, using IV to correct for attenuation bias, is 0.68, 4.6 times bigger. Our findings raise two conceptual points. First, if the causal pathway through which schooling affects life outcomes is, even partially, through learning then estimates of the impact of schooling will underestimate the impact of education. Second, decisions about how to invest to improve life outcomes necessarily depend on estimates of the relative impacts and relative costs of schooling (e.g., grade completion) versus learning (e.g., literacy) on life outcomes. Our results do share the limitation of all previous observational results that the associations cannot be given causal interpretation and much more work will be needed to be able to make reliable claims about causal pathways.

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