Efficiency and Effectiveness Evaluation of Micro-credit Programme in Transforming Rural Women Entrepreneurs: Experiences from Balasore District of Odisha

Rajpal, Navin Kumar; Tamang, Sharmila

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“…Microcredit is one method of assisting Entrepreneurs in the Odisha regions, and it has a significant positive effect in a number of areas. However, there are some challenges for Entrepreneurs, including the low loan amounts compared to those at the national and regional levels, their reliance on middlemen, and a lack of market access (Rajpal and Tamang, 2021).…”

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Tribal women empowerment through entrepreneurship: evidence from Mayurbhanj District, Odisha

2023

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IntroductionEmpowering women in a tribal context through entrepreneurship is an approach for enabling and making them economically and socially viable. This paper aims to highlight entrepreneurship in a specific tribal context and provide insight on some instances or cases relating to women's empowerment. Although there are many initiatives from international organizations and governmental institutions to support women entrepreneurs, especially tribal women, they suffer from isolation as a result of their language and lifestyle differ from the rest of society, which made the growth of their business and ability to compete arduous, and thus affected their ability to make various decisions in their lives. This study examines the pathway to a better understanding of increasing access to entrepreneurship for tribal women in Mayurbhanj district, Odisha.MethodsThe sample size was 111 Santhal tribal women entrepreneurs, and all of them were interviewed using an interview schedule and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs). Two analytical tools were used (a linear regression model to find which dependent variables influence entrepreneurs and the Women's Empowerment Index (WEI) to measure the progress in social and economic opportunities). The respondents was interviewed and asked on the various WEI indicators before and after an entrepreneurship intervention.Results and discussionIt was observed through the results that the empowerment of women has changed in a positive direction after establishing their work; according to the indicators of the study, the Women's Empowerment Index has changed from 0.61 to 1.26. It was also found that entrepreneurship has a positive and significant impact on women's decision-making within the family, and therefore, it was suggested through research to increase the intervention from the government and related organizations with more initiatives that contribute to the possibility of increasing women's education and their financial ability to open new enterprises.

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Tribal women empowerment through entrepreneurship: evidence from Mayurbhanj District, Odisha

2023

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Common Property Resources, Forest Extraction and Livelihood: An Insight to WSHG Entrepreneurs of Tribal Odisha

Rajpal

Tamang²

2022

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The ownership of common property resources was always in conflict within community and community vs government. Definition about common property resources are advanced on the mainly upon their priority, visibility, accessibility and understanding. Further, its broad classification includes harvesting, extraction and natural production. The nature of dependency among Common Property Resources(CPRs) and Private Property Resources(PPRs) follows higher exploitation with initial compared to the later. The present study is carried out in Tribal dominated district of Odisha, India i.e. Mayurbhanj through stratified and multi-stage random sampling to answer how important are CPRs for tribal across Mayurbhanj and their dependency upon types of resources with utilisation and limitation. The assessment of LDI (Livelihood Dependency Index) reveals higher dependency of sample respondents of Mayurbhanj upon CPRs for livelihood continuation even after having an average membership in Self Help Group programme from last seven years. There exist massive need of making diversified occupation adjustment especially for population residing nearby forest like engagement in transport of forest items, maintenance, local auction, daily wage based leaf collection and storage for government auction, maintenance and engaging women members in manufacturing of CPR based items.

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Women’s empowerment, household dietary diversity, and child anthropometry among vulnerable populations in Odisha, India

Ogutu,

Mockshell,

Garrett

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PLoS ONE

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Women’s empowerment has been promoted by researchers and development practitioners as one of the most promising strategies to address widespread hunger and malnutrition. However, the relationship between women’s empowerment and dietary diversity and child nutrition has rarely been studied among vulnerable populations or individuals at greater risk of poor physical and social health status. Moreover, the effects of different domains of women’s empowerment on nutritional outcomes, including dietary diversity and child anthropometry, have rarely been examined, especially with panel data. Using two rounds of panel data from 1900 households and fixed effects regression models, we analyze the effect of women’s empowerment on household dietary diversity score (HDDS) and child anthropometry among the particularly vulnerable tribal groups in Odisha, India. We also estimate the effects of various decision-making domains of women’s empowerment on HDDS and child anthropometry to understand which empowerment domains matter for nutrition. Results show that women’s empowerment is positively associated with HDDS (coef. 0.41 food groups; p < 0.1) and reduces the prevalence of underweight (coef. 39%; p < 0.05) and wasting (coef. 56%; p < 0.1) in children but has no effect on the prevalence of child stunting. Women’s empowerment in agricultural input use; output sales; income; food purchases; and credit, group membership, and employment contribute to improved dietary diversity and child nutrition. We conclude that women’s empowerment contributes to improved dietary diversity and child nutrition and is a promising strategy to improve farm household diets and child nutrition among vulnerable populations. Strengthening women’s empowerment through the promotion of women’s access to land and other agricultural inputs, market participation, access to information, capital, and credit is important.

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Efficiency and Effectiveness Evaluation of Micro-credit Programme in Transforming Rural Women Entrepreneurs: Experiences from Balasore District of Odisha

Cited by 3 publications

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Tribal women empowerment through entrepreneurship: evidence from Mayurbhanj District, Odisha

Tribal women empowerment through entrepreneurship: evidence from Mayurbhanj District, Odisha

Common Property Resources, Forest Extraction and Livelihood: An Insight to WSHG Entrepreneurs of Tribal Odisha

Women’s empowerment, household dietary diversity, and child anthropometry among vulnerable populations in Odisha, India

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