Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation: Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha

Christian, Paul J.; Kandpal, Eeshani; Palaniswamy, Nethra; Rao, V. Srinivasa

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“…Resilience was most commonly measured using some indicator of consumption, such as changes in food security or household expenditures, and seven studies provided evidence that women’s group member households tended to be better able to smooth consumption during covariate weather shocks than non-member households ( Bahadur et al, 2016 ; BARA & IPA, 2013 ; Christian et al, 2019 ; Demont, 2013 ; Demont, 2022 ; Garikipati, 2008 ; Karlan et al, 2017 ). It is important to note that, while consumption tended to be higher for member households than non-member households, membership in a women’s group seldom fully mitigated the effect of the weather shock.…”

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Women's groups, covariate shocks, and resilience: An evidence synthesis of past shocks to inform a response to COVID-19

Walcott

Schmidt

Kaminsky³

et al. 2023

Gates Open Res

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Background: Interventions with women’s groups are increasingly seen as an important strategy for advancing women’s empowerment, health, and economic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, with the potential to increase the resiliency of members and their communities during widespread covariate shocks, such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Methods: This evidence synthesis compiles evidence from past shocks on women’s group activities and the extent to which women’s groups mitigate the effects of shocks on members and communities. We reviewed 90 documents from academic databases, organizational reports, and additional gray literature, and included literature diverse in geography, type of women’s group, and shock. Results: The literature suggests that covariate shocks tend to disrupt group activities and reduce group resources, but linkages to formal institutions can mitigate this impact by extending credit beyond the shock-affected resource pool. Evidence was largely supportive of women’s groups providing resilience to members and communities, though findings varied according to shock severity, group purpose and structure, and outcome measures. Further, actions to support individual resilience during a shock, such as increased payment flexibility, may run counter to group resilience. The findings of the evidence synthesis are largely consistent with emerging evidence about women’s groups and COVID-19 in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Conclusions: We finalize the paper with a discussion on policy implications, including the importance of sustainable access to financial resources for women’s group members; equity considerations surrounding the distribution of group benefits and burdens; and the potential for meaningful partnerships between women’s groups and local governments and/or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance community response amidst crises.

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Women's groups, covariate shocks, and resilience: An evidence synthesis of past shocks to inform a response to COVID-19

Walcott

Schmidt

Kaminsky³

et al. 2023

Gates Open Res

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“…23 When precise information on shocks is available, resilience can be proxied more directly by observing the degree to which households can mitigate the effect of shocks on welfare outcomes, along with the types of coping strategies they use (Constas et al, 2013). In the context of impact evaluations, another approach is to analyze how interventions affect households' ability to manage shocks, which can be analyzed by assessing the heterogeneity of program impacts by exposures to climatic shock measures (Macours et al, 2012;Asfaw et al, 2017;Béné et al, 2017;Christian et al, 2019). This is the main approach used in this paper.…”

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Cash transfers, climatic shocks and resilience in the Sahel

Premand

Stoeffler

2022

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

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“…Blattman and colleagues (2016) and Kochar and colleagues (2020) -in their studies of livelihood groups in Uganda and India -found that group membership is associated with better social support and community participation. Studies show that collectives enable women to access entitlements and social programs, but only when they are distinct components of the program (Prennushi and Gupta 2014;Christian et al 2018;Desai and Joshi 2014;Kumar et al 2019). A synthesis of women's groups by Dìaz-Martin and colleagues (2020) shows that economic groups for women's empowerment play an important role in the development of their social capital.…”

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Evaluation of IDEA project in Bangladesh: a baseline report

Barooah¹,

Iversen²,

Wendt³

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The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) promotes evidence-informed equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. We support the generation and effective use of high-quality evidence to inform decision-making and improve the lives of people living in poverty in low-and middle-income countries. We provide guidance and support to produce, synthesise and quality assure evidence of what works, for whom, how, why and at what cost. 3ie working papersThese papers cover a range of content. They may focus on current issues, debates and enduring challenges facing development policymakers, programme managers, practitioners and the impact evaluation and systematic review communities. Policy-relevant papers in this series synthesise or draw on relevant findings from mixed-method impact evaluations, systematic reviews funded by 3ie, as well as other rigorous evidence to offer new analyses, findings, insights and recommendations. Papers focusing on methods and technical guides also draw on similar sources to help advance understanding, design and use of rigorous and appropriate evaluations and reviews. 3ie also uses this series to publish lessons learned from 3ie grant-making.

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Safety Nets and Natural Disaster Mitigation: Evidence from Cyclone Phailin in Odisha

Cited by 6 publications

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Women's groups, covariate shocks, and resilience: An evidence synthesis of past shocks to inform a response to COVID-19

Women's groups, covariate shocks, and resilience: An evidence synthesis of past shocks to inform a response to COVID-19

Cash transfers, climatic shocks and resilience in the Sahel

Evaluation of IDEA project in Bangladesh: a baseline report

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