Gender Planning and Development

Moser, Caroline

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“…2 Generally, the concept of empowerment is related to agency, autonomy, self-direction, self-confidence, self-worth, selfdetermination, liberation, participation, and mobilization (Narayan, 2005;Ibrahim and Alkire, 2007). More specifically, different studies define empowerment in different terms, for instance as an increased possibility to make choices (Alsop et al, 2006;Kabeer, 1999;Mayoux, 2000;Moser, 1991) or decisions (Appleyard, 2002;Khwaja, 2005;Rowlands, 1997), or to gain power (Lokshin and Ravallion, 2005;Malena, 2003;Moser, 1991), control (Chambers, 1993;Jackson, 1994;Mason and Smith, 2003;Moser, 1991;Strandberg, 2001), influence (Khwaja, 2005;McMillan et al, 1995;Moser, 1991;World Bank, 2001), or assets and capabilities (Grootaert, 2003;Malhotra et al, 2002;Narayan, 2005).This overview is based on a list of definitions which was assembled by Ibrahim and Alkire (2007); the definitions often refer specifically to women's empowerment.…”

Section: Measurement Of Empowerment and Hypothesesmentioning

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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability-Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability Based Poverty Approach:Evidence from The Gambia Sofia Karina Trommlerová (IHEID Geneva)Stephan Klasen (University of Göttingen)Ortrud Lessmann (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg) August 2013 AbstractAlthough empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very little research on the empirical drivers of empowerment. Using custom-made household-level information and using advanced econometric techniques that also correct for endogeneity, we examine what empowers individuals in The Gambia to change their own lives and affect changes in their communities. We show that people's self-reported capabilities are the most important drivers of empowerment. We also show that respondents' confidence that they will be the most powerful agents in their lives is higher for men, foreigners, people free of health limitations, and younger people. JEL codes: I30, I32, O15, Z13, Z18Keywords: empowerment, agency, capability approach, The Gambia, correction for endogeneity AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank Jean-Louis Arcand for including their questions to the CDDP survey he was in charge of in The Gambia and Eric Djimeu for conducting the survey and for helpful comments.

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Section: Measurement Of Empowerment and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability-Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

2015

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“…Both within households and in society at large, men and women have different needs because of their gender roles and they have unequal control over resources (Moser 1993). Moser (1989Moser ( , 1993 defined two types of women's needs: practical gender needs (PGN) and strategic gender needs (SGN).…”

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How microfinance empowers women in Côte d’Ivoire

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This study deals with the effect of microcredit on women's livelihood and empowerment in rural areas of Côte d'Ivoire. A cross-section survey was conducted among 185 borrowers from two microfinance institutions and 209 nonborrowers in rural areas of Côte d'Ivoire. In addition, a focus group discussion was held with each of the two women groups. After matching the two groups on the probability of obtaining credit, we found that the microcredit group on average had a higher income and a higher value of household assets than the non-borrowers. No differences in the value of personal women's assets were found. Furthermore, on one hand women's decision-making power in the household, as indicated by their strategic gender needs, was positively related to the probability of obtaining microcredit. On the other hand receiving microcredit tended to increase their decisionmaking power.

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“…With regard to feminine empowerment, Moser (1991) stresses that to recognize the importance of increasing the power of women tends to identify power less in domination terms over others and more in terms of capacity of them in acquiring self-confidence and to make choices in their lives and to influence the ways, changes, through the ability of controlling material and non-material resources. Antunes (2002) highlights that the starting point in this process, without disregarding global fights, is the local, since domestic unities, in other words, the process of empowerment might initiate in the domestic unities and local communities, but, in long term, through politic action, it aims to change the relations of power in national and international level.…”

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Female empowerment of Amazonian riverine beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família program

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Today, policies of combat to poverty prioritize women as owners in programs of income transference, among them, Bolsa Família Program. Considering that women empowerment is influenced by this social policy, this research aimed to identify the dimensions of the process of empowerment achieved by riparian women, beneficiary of the program. The research was performed at Combú Island, Belém do Pará. Four riparian mothers took part in the study. For data collection, the Sociodemographic Inventory and semi structured interviews were used. As procedure of organization of information, content analysis was used. The categories, which appeared from the beneficiary perceptions were adapted from literature and defined as economic, family, social and psychological empowerment. The results showed that after the entrance in BFP the notion of a owned income and bigger control of resources were obtained by a parcel of the participants, providing a partial economic empowerment. The befit increased the purchase power, and gave to these women grater management over family decision-making. The ownership of the program's card made them to feel benefited when following-up children, providing social visibility to these mothers, when not depending completely of the husbands' intermediation. Lastly, the benefit generated in the participants a feeling of stability, for having money, security for the family monthly needs. The empowerment that riparian women achieved shows that they passed to interfere in the dynamics and providing of the family before the lack or not of their husbands' income.

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Gender Planning and Development

Cited by 554 publications

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Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability-Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

Determinants of Empowerment in a Capability-Based Poverty Approach: Evidence from The Gambia

How microfinance empowers women in Côte d’Ivoire

Female empowerment of Amazonian riverine beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família program

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