Plus ça change? Shifting power in a disorienting moment

VeneKlasen, Lisa

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“…A combined empowerment framework was used to assess the extent to which women were empowered, including economically empowered, through their management of small-scale water supply schemes in Cambodia. The empowerment frameworks informed the interview questions and codes applied to analyse transcripts across the four key dimensions of power [15,[27][28][29], including Longwe's women's empowerment framework [24]. In addition, we also used a framework of business management functions to understand the enterprise operational situation, constraints and context.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In line with Longwe's 'levels' (though not sequential) of empowerment, other empowerment frameworks consider gender relations in terms of four types of power: 'power over', 'power within', 'power with' and 'power to'. The 'four types of power' framing, originally proposed by Rowlands [15] was further elaborated by VeneKlasen and Miller [27], Eyben, Kabeer and Cornwall [28], as well as Pereznieto and Taylor [29], offers a range of ways to conceptualise empowerment, across a range of domains (Table 1). Power can also be visible, hidden or invisible [27].…”

Section: Gender Analysis Framework and Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The 'four types of power' framing, originally proposed by Rowlands [15] was further elaborated by VeneKlasen and Miller [27], Eyben, Kabeer and Cornwall [28], as well as Pereznieto and Taylor [29], offers a range of ways to conceptualise empowerment, across a range of domains (Table 1). Power can also be visible, hidden or invisible [27]. Visible power relates to observable decision-making and definable aspects of political power, including formal structures, rules, institutions, authorities and procedures of decision-making.…”

Section: Gender Analysis Framework and Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hidden power relates to the setting of the political agenda by controlling who is at the decision-making table and what is on the agenda. Invisible power shapes meaning, whereby problems and issues are not only kept from the decision-making table, but also from the minds and consciousness of the players involved [27]. Considering this, the authors argue that change will not occur unless political strategies consider and address power dynamics in the public and private realms, as well as understand the visible, hidden and invisible forms of power at play [27].…”

Section: Gender Analysis Framework and Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Invisible power shapes meaning, whereby problems and issues are not only kept from the decision-making table, but also from the minds and consciousness of the players involved [27]. Considering this, the authors argue that change will not occur unless political strategies consider and address power dynamics in the public and private realms, as well as understand the visible, hidden and invisible forms of power at play [27]. Rowlands' understanding of how empowerment is experienced is expressed through three dimensions of empowerment: personal, close relationships, and collective [15].…”

Section: Gender Analysis Framework and Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rural Piped-Water Enterprises in Cambodia: A Pathway to Women’s Empowerment?

Grant

Soeters

Bunthoeun

et al. 2019

Water

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This research examined the extent to which women's ownership and management of water supply schemes led to their empowerment, including their economic empowerment, in rural Cambodia. Privately managed water supply schemes in rural Cambodia serve over one million people. This study is the first of its kind to systematically investigate the experiences and needs of female water supply scheme owners, using well-established theoretical frameworks for women's empowerment, namely Longwe's stages of empowerment, and Rowlands, VeneKlasen and Miller's elaboration on different types of power. Business management frameworks relevant to the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector were also drawn on to assess operational constraints and enablers. Fifteen structured interviews were conducted with female water entrepreneurs in rural Cambodia. Female entrepreneurs reported encountering four key barriers to establishing and managing water supply schemes. The first were operational, and government and regulatory related issues, followed by financial issues and limited demand for water services. Three important enablers were reported by entrepreneurs: social enablers, economic enablers and program support from government, associations and non-government organisations (NGOs). This study found that, whilst there was evidence of empowerment reported by female water enterprise owners, the complexity of the ongoing empowerment process, challenges and limitations were also observed. Women's empowerment can be advanced through leadership of, and involvement in water enterprises, as evidenced by this study, however, gender norms constrained women, especially with respect to mobility (leaving the home for extended periods), and household and family duties impacting on income-generating work or vice versa. As such, targeted strategies are needed by a range of actors to address such constraints. The findings of this study can assist NGOs, donors and governments incentivizing entrepreneurship in water services, to ensure that these interventions are not gender blind, and to draw on evidence of the barriers and enablers for female entrepreneurs and how these are influenced by contextualized gender norms. deliver drinking water services that meet 'safely managed' standards, is through well maintained piped-water systems. In 2015, there were an estimated 300 privately managed water supply schemes in rural Cambodia, serving over one million people [2]. Yet, in 2017, only 26% of Cambodians had access to safely managed drinking water services from government and privately managed schemes [3]. Globally, between 2000 and 2017, the population using piped sources increased from 3.5 billion to 4.8 billion [3].The achievement of SDG 6 will not be possible without concerted, deliberate and transformative action on gender inequalities, as outlined in SDG 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls). The relationship between SDG 5 and 6 has received attention from the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and water resources management sect...

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Analysis Framework and Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Analysis Framework and Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Analysis Framework and Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Analysis Framework and Theoretical Groundingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rural Piped-Water Enterprises in Cambodia: A Pathway to Women’s Empowerment?

Grant

Soeters

Bunthoeun

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Water

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Radical rerouting: New roads for advocacy evaluation

Schlangen¹,

Coe²

2021

New Drctns Evaluation

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This article discusses the evolution of evaluation of advocacy and its alignment with different parties’ interests in rigor, participation, and usefulness. We then explore responses to our paper, No Royal Road: Finding and Following the Natural Pathways of Advocacy Evaluation, which sought to reframe advocacy evaluation concepts and analytic frames in ways that take into account the complex contexts in which advocacy takes place. We suggest that a narrow conception of power is acting as a fundamental barrier to evaluation approaches that enable and support transformative advocacy. The article concludes with an argument to fully embrace complexity and power issues, noting that this points to radically different implications for future evaluation practices. This argument is, in many ways, anti‐paradigmatic to the current evaluation field, but it draws on a thread of thinking going back to the pioneers in the field.

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The importance of understanding the multiple dimensions of power in stakeholder participation for effective biodiversity conservation

Lécuyer,

Balian,

Butler

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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Biodiversity conservation are increasingly focused on involving stakeholder engagement, making power a key concept in understanding its success and failure. Power is often conceptualized as unidimensional and coercive, but a multidimensional view better reflects structural power, as well as its productive and enabling potential. This paper investigates how different dimensions of power in participatory processes affect biodiversity conservation objectives. Six case studies from Europe and Asia‐Pacific were analysed using an adapted framework that explores the interlinkages between ‘power over’ and ‘transformative power’, looking at the scale and space in which power occurs, and analysing in which arenas of power and under which form of expression it appears. The framework distinguishes between the different ways to exert influence (‘power to’, ‘power with’, ‘power within’, ‘power for’), as well as the dynamics of domination and resistance observed in decision‐making (visible power), hidden biases and exclusionary experiences (hidden power), and actions that either reinforce or resist social norms and beliefs (invisible and systematic power). Focusing on biodiversity, the different arenas of power allow us to go deeper than the surface issues and conflicting interests of diverse participants, regarding for example wildlife, to question underlying power dynamics. Different expressions of power, more specifically the ‘power for’ dimension, allow an understanding of how participants integrate nature and biodiversity in their aspirations. The different levels of power also highlight the need to focus not only on the local level but to analyse how participatory processes are embedded in national, or even international governance in a globalized world. Finally, they shed light on two challenges in participatory processes regarding biodiversity: the representation of non‐human interests (designated here as ‘beyond‐human’ voices), and the integration of multiple forms of knowledge systems. Synthesis and applications: Integrating power into biodiversity issues involves deconstructing normalized discourses that focus solely on certain more powerful human agents, their interests and scientific knowledge, and creating new narratives, knowledge and embodied practice of learning and action to encompass a wider diversity of voices and views. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Plus ça change? Shifting power in a disorienting moment

Cited by 9 publications

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Rural Piped-Water Enterprises in Cambodia: A Pathway to Women’s Empowerment?

Rural Piped-Water Enterprises in Cambodia: A Pathway to Women’s Empowerment?

Radical rerouting: New roads for advocacy evaluation

The importance of understanding the multiple dimensions of power in stakeholder participation for effective biodiversity conservation

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