Measuring Empowerment

Author : Ruth Alsop,Nina Heinsohn
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Measuring Empowerment in Practice by Ruth Alsop,Nina Heinsohn Pdf

"Alsop and Heinsohn present an analytic framework that can be used to measure and monitor empowerment processes and outcomes. The measuring empowerment framework, rooted in both conceptual discourse and measurement practice, illustrates how to gather data on empowerment and structure its analysis. The framework can be used to measure empowerment at both the intervention level and the country level, as a part of poverty or governance monitoring. The authors first provide a definition of empowerment and then explain how the concept can be reduced to measurable components. Empowerment is defined as a person's capacity to make effective choices--that is, the capacity to transform choices into desired actions and outcomes. The extent or degree to which a person is empowered is influenced by personal agency (the capacity to make purposive choice) and opportunity structure (the institutional context in which choice is made). Asset endowments are used as indicators of agency. These assets may be psychological, informational, organizational, material, social, financial, or human. Opportunity structure is measured by the presence and operation of formal and informal institutions, including the laws, regulatory frameworks, and norms governing behavior. Degrees of empowerment are measured by the existence of choice, the use of choice, and the achievement of choice. Following the conceptual discussion and the presentation of the analytic framework, the authors show how the measuring empowerment framework can be applied using examples from four development interventions. Each example discusses how the framework guided analysis and development of empowerment indicators. They also present a draft module for measuring empowerment at the country level. The module can be used alone or be integrated into country-level poverty or governance monitoring systems that seek to add an empowerment dimension to their analysis. This paper--a product of the Poverty Reduction Group, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network--is part of a larger effort in the network to conceptualize, operationalize, and measure empowerment"--Abstract.

Author : Deepa Narayan-Parker
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821360576

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Measuring Empowerment by Deepa Narayan-Parker Pdf

Large-scale poverty reduction depends on the effective empowerment of poor people themselves. This publication sets out a conceptual framework that can be used to monitor and evaluate empowerment programmes, based on papers written by practitioners and researchers in a wide variety of fields, including economics and political science, sociology and psychology, anthropology and demography. These papers draw on research and practical experience at different levels, from households to communities to nations and in various regions of the world.

Author : Malapit, Hazel J.,Heckert, Jessica,Adegbola, Patrice Ygué,Crinot, Geraud Fabrice,Eissler, Sarah,Faas, Simone,Gantoli, Geoffroy,Kalagho, Kenan,Martinez, Elena,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Mswero, Grace,Myers, Emily,Mzungu, Diston,Pereira, Audrey,Pinkstaff, Crossley,Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Ragasa, Catherine,Rubin, Deborah,Seymour, Greg,Tauseef, Salauddin,GAAP2 Market Inclusion Study Team
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Measuring empowerment across the value chain: The evolution of the project-level Women’s Empowerment Index for Market Inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI) by Malapit, Hazel J.,Heckert, Jessica,Adegbola, Patrice Ygué,Crinot, Geraud Fabrice,Eissler, Sarah,Faas, Simone,Gantoli, Geoffroy,Kalagho, Kenan,Martinez, Elena,Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela,Mswero, Grace,Myers, Emily,Mzungu, Diston,Pereira, Audrey,Pinkstaff, Crossley,Quisumbing, Agnes R.,Ragasa, Catherine,Rubin, Deborah,Seymour, Greg,Tauseef, Salauddin,GAAP2 Market Inclusion Study Team Pdf

Many development agencies design and implement interventions that aim to reach, benefit, and empower rural women across the value chain in activities ranging from production, to processing, to marketing. Determining whether and how such interventions empower women, as well as the constraints faced by different value chain actors, requires quantitative and qualitative tools. We describe how we adapted the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agricultural Index (pro-WEAI), a mixed-methods tool for studying empowerment in development projects, to include aspects of agency relevant for multiple types of value chain actors. The resulting pro-WEAI for market inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI) includes quantitative and qualitative instruments developed over the course of four studies. Studies in the Philippines (2017), Bangladesh (2017), and Malawi (2019) were intended to diagnose areas of disempowerment to inform programming, whereas the Benin (2019) study was an impact assessment of an agricultural training program. The pro-WEAI+MI includes all indicators included in pro-WEAI, plus a dashboard of complementary indicators and recommended qualitative instruments. These tools investigate the empowerment of women in different value chains and nodes and identify barriers to market access and inclusion that may restrict empowerment for different value chain actors. Our findings highlight three lessons. First, the sampling strategy needs to be designed to capture the key actors in a value chain. Second, the market inclusion indicators cannot stand alone; they must be interpreted alongside the core pro-WEAI indicators. Third, not all market inclusion indicators will be relevant for all value chains and contexts. Users should research the experiences of women and men in the target value chains in the context of the programto select priority market inclusion indicators.

Author : Amy C. Alexander,Catherine Bolzendahl,Farida Jalalzai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319640068

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Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across the Globe by Amy C. Alexander,Catherine Bolzendahl,Farida Jalalzai Pdf

This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women’s political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for benchmarking and understanding all political empowerment gains across the globe. Chapters improve our global understanding of women's political empowerment through cross-national comparisons, a synthesis of methodological approaches across varied levels of politics, and attention to the ways gender intersects with myriad factors in shaping women’s political empowerment. This book is an indispensable resource for scholars of politics and gender, as well as being relevant to a global scholarly and policy community.

Author : Myers, Emily,Baek, Yuna,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Heckert, Jessica
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Not just a drop in the bucket: Measuring women’s empowerment in water, sanitation, and hygiene by Myers, Emily,Baek, Yuna,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Heckert, Jessica Pdf

Given the lack of consensus around how to measure empowerment in WASH, mapping existing indicators to two frameworks frequently used in the empowerment literature illustrates knowledge gaps. We identified 290 gender-sensitive indicators across nine WASH themes that were mapped to the Reach-Benefit-Empower and Resources-Agency-Achievements frameworks. Most indicators measure “Benefit” and/or “Resources.” Existing gender-sensitive indicators capturing empowerment and agency in WASH are lacking; only 10.3% of indicators capture “Empower” and 24.8% of indicators capture “Agency.”

Author : Ruth Alsop
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821363102

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Power, Rights and Poverty by Ruth Alsop Pdf

This publication contains a number of essays and supplementary materials based on a two-day working meeting, held in Washington D.C. in March 2004 and organised jointly by the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development, to consider the relationships between power, rights and poverty reduction issues in theory and practice. Issues addressed include: competing definitions and concepts of power and rights, using experiences drawn from different countries; ways of helping development practitioners to apply these concepts to their work; a summary of the major theoretical conceptualisations of power and a literature review on power and rights.

Author : Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Families
ISBN : UOM:39015072801478

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Measuring Empowerment by Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive Pdf

Author : Mutua, E.,Waithanji, E.,Korir, L.,Mukewa, E.
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Measuring women’s social and economic empowerment by Mutua, E.,Waithanji, E.,Korir, L.,Mukewa, E. Pdf

Author : Measuring and Accounting for Community Capabilities in Kordofan, Sudan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Measuring and Accounting for Community Capabilities in Kardofan, Sudan by Measuring and Accounting for Community Capabilities in Kordofan, Sudan Pdf

Author : Centers of Disease Control
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789289053600

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What Quantitative and Qualitative Methods Have Been Developed to Measure Community Empowerment at a National Level? by Centers of Disease Control Pdf

Community empowerment has been frequently studied at subnational levels but it is less clear how to measure it at a national level. Mixed methods approaches would be advantageous using quantitative data from databases plus qualitative information to derive a range of variables and indicators. This report identifies assessment methods that have been used and evidence for integrating qualitative and quantitative data for national assessments. When resources are limited or there is no current practice of measurement of community empowerment the simplest approach is to combine a selection of quantitative variables and indicators available in statistical databases. When resources can be allocated a more systematic approach would supplement such accessible data with some form of rapid qualitative assessment. Ideally a formal national monitoring and evaluation system would be instituted that collects all the relevant quantitative and qualitative data and combines these into a regularly updated assessment.

Author : Ruth Alsop,Mette Frost Bertelsen,Jeremy Holland
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821364512

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Empowerment in Practice by Ruth Alsop,Mette Frost Bertelsen,Jeremy Holland Pdf

"This document offers an excellent explanation of the concept of empowerment and develops a very useful framework for disentangling and clarifying the concept. It is both practical and well justified on the basis of the literature. The approach and survey instruments developed to measure empowerment are innovative and very useful. Developing an approach to empirically measure empowerment, and to track empowerment indicators over time in a way that is operationally feasible and consistent with World Bank standards is certainly an outstanding achievement."Reginer Birner, Senior Researc.

Author : Ahmad, Nuzhat,Khan, Huma
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Measuring women’s disempowerment in agriculture in Pakistan by Ahmad, Nuzhat,Khan, Huma Pdf

Pakistan performs poorly withrespect to gender equality, women’s empowerment, and other gender-related indicators. Few studies in Pakistan measure the multiple dimensions of empowerment along which women are marginalized or disenfranchised, particularly in the country’s rural areas. Even fewer studies address the gender gaps in empowerment levels of men and women. This paper calculates a Women’s Disempowerment Index to examine women’s control over production, resources, income, household decisions, and time burden. The index is based on a slightly modified methodology than that used for WEAI calculation by Alkire et al. (2012). The analysis is based on a sample of 2,090 households in the rural areas of Pakistan. Data used for the study werecollected in three rounds of the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey from 2012–2014 by International Food Policy Research Institute/ Innovative Development Strategies for its Pakistan Strategy Support Program. The results show low empowerment levels of only 17 percent for women in the rural areas of Pakistan. The results also show very low empowerment of women in all indicators and domains except the time burden/workload indicator. We then analyze women’s disempowerment by subsamples based on individual and household characteristics. We also calculate disempowerment levels among men and compare it to disempowerment levels among women. Comparison within the household reveals large disparities in empowerment levels among men and women. In a comparative analysis, men are found to be more empowered in domains of production, income,and autonomy. Both men and women were found to be most disempowered in access to and control over resources. The paper provides a baseline for tracking women’s empowerment over time and identifies areas that need to be strengthened through policy interventions

Author : Kuruvilla, Moly,George, Irene
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799828211

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Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment by Kuruvilla, Moly,George, Irene Pdf

Globally, women are facing social, economic, and cultural barriers impeding their autonomy and agency. Accelerated women empowerment programs often fail to attain their targets as envisaged by the policymakers due to a variety of reasons, with the most prominent being the deep-rooted cultural norms ingrained within society. In the era of globalization, empowerment of women demands new approaches and strategies that encourage the mainstreaming of gender equality as a societal norm. The Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment is a critical scholarly publication that examines global gender issues and new strategies for the promotion of women empowerment and gender mainstreaming in various spheres of women’s lives, including education and ICT, economic participation, health and sexuality, mental health, aging, law and judiciary, leadership, and decision making. It provides a comprehensive coverage of all major gender issues with novel ideas on gender mainstreaming being contributed by men and women authors from multidisciplinary backgrounds. Gender perspective and intersectional approach in the discourses make this handbook a unique contribution to the scholarship of social sciences and humanities. The book provides new theoretical inputs and practical directions to academicians, sociologists, social workers, psychologists, managers, lawyers, policy makers, and government officials in their efforts at gender mainstreaming. With a wide range of conceptual richness, this handbook is an excellent reference guide to students and researchers in programs pertaining to gender/women's studies, cultural studies, economics, sociology, social work, medicine, law, and management.

Author : Heckert, Jessica,Raghunathan, Kalyani,Myers, Emily,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Faas, Simone,Ferguson, Nathaniel,Seymour, Greg,Malapit, Hazel J.,Paz, Flor,Chiwasa, Febbie,Chilalika, Joan,Kamwaba-Mtethiwa, Jean,Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere,Simkoko, Abigail,Chilungo, Abdallah,Upadhyaya, Rachana,Pradhan, Meeta S.,Joshi, Nira,Shrestha, Sanish
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Development of a Women’s Empowerment metric for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH) by Heckert, Jessica,Raghunathan, Kalyani,Myers, Emily,Ramani, Gayathri V.,Faas, Simone,Ferguson, Nathaniel,Seymour, Greg,Malapit, Hazel J.,Paz, Flor,Chiwasa, Febbie,Chilalika, Joan,Kamwaba-Mtethiwa, Jean,Chirwa, Gowokani Chijere,Simkoko, Abigail,Chilungo, Abdallah,Upadhyaya, Rachana,Pradhan, Meeta S.,Joshi, Nira,Shrestha, Sanish Pdf

There is a growing focus on gender-sensitive approaches and women’s empowerment in the water, sanitation, and hygiene sectors. At the same time, there is a lack of metrics to measure women’s empowerment in the WASH sector. Such metrics are important for understanding the types of programmatic interventions that are most needed for addressing women’s empowerment, as well as for assessing their impacts on women’s empowerment. In this report, we describe the development of a Women’s Empowerment metrics for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WE-WASH). We collected data from individual women and men in 812 households in Malawi and 826 households in Nepal. Using the data, we develop 14 indicators and establish cutoff thresholds (i.e., whether the individual is empowered) in the areas of intrinsic, instrumental, and collective agency in WASH; instrumental and intrinsic agency in menstrual hygiene management; and the empowerment environment (or resources for empowerment). In each country, we observe differences in empowerment levels between women and men, that favor men on most outcomes. Notably, in both countries, we find that women are much less likely than men to contribute to WASH infrastructure decisions, and most women are spending an undue amount of time contributing to WASH-related labor. In Nepal especially, agency related to menstrual hygiene management is also a substantial area of disempowerment for women.

Author : Elizabeth George,Zakkariya K.A.
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319942599

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Psychological Empowerment and Job Satisfaction in the Banking Sector by Elizabeth George,Zakkariya K.A. Pdf

This book explores how psychological empowerment can influence and enhance job satisfaction. The authors argue that in today’s working climate the wellbeing and involvement of employees is of utmost importance to any company’s overall success and that management techniques like empowerment are the most effective means of achieving this goal. Based on an empirical study examining job satisfaction amongst employees of several private sector, public sector and new generation banks in Kerala, India as well as extensive literature review, this book discusses the role psychological empowerment plays in enhancing job satisfaction both locally and internationally. It goes on to analyze four dimensions of psychological empowerment and the role of job satisfaction in the relationship between psychological empowerment and job related stress. This book will be of great interest to scholars in management and psychology and is essential reading for industrialists and managers wanting to apply empowerment strategies in their own workplace.