Do Participatory Learning and Action Women’s Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women’s Agency in Rural Nepal?

Participatory learning and action women’s groups (PLA) have proven effective in reducing neonatal mortality in rural, high-mortality settings, but their impacts on women’s agency in the household remain unknown. Cash transfer programmes have also long targeted female beneficiaries in the belief that...

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Autores principales: Gram, Lu, Morrison, Joanna, Saville, Naomi, Yadav, Shyam Sundar, Shrestha, Bhim, Manandhar, Dharma, Costello, Anthony, Skordis-Worrall, Jolene
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Publicado: Routledge 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6540743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31218298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1448069
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author Gram, Lu
Morrison, Joanna
Saville, Naomi
Yadav, Shyam Sundar
Shrestha, Bhim
Manandhar, Dharma
Costello, Anthony
Skordis-Worrall, Jolene
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Morrison, Joanna
Saville, Naomi
Yadav, Shyam Sundar
Shrestha, Bhim
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description Participatory learning and action women’s groups (PLA) have proven effective in reducing neonatal mortality in rural, high-mortality settings, but their impacts on women’s agency in the household remain unknown. Cash transfer programmes have also long targeted female beneficiaries in the belief that this empowers women. Drawing on data from 1309 pregnant women in a four-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial in Nepal, we found little evidence for an impact of PLA alone or combined with unconditional food or cash transfers on women’s agency in the household. Caution is advised before assuming PLA women’s groups alone or with resource transfers necessarily empower women.
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spelling pubmed-65407432019-06-17 Do Participatory Learning and Action Women’s Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women’s Agency in Rural Nepal? Gram, Lu Morrison, Joanna Saville, Naomi Yadav, Shyam Sundar Shrestha, Bhim Manandhar, Dharma Costello, Anthony Skordis-Worrall, Jolene J Dev Stud Articles Participatory learning and action women’s groups (PLA) have proven effective in reducing neonatal mortality in rural, high-mortality settings, but their impacts on women’s agency in the household remain unknown. Cash transfer programmes have also long targeted female beneficiaries in the belief that this empowers women. Drawing on data from 1309 pregnant women in a four-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial in Nepal, we found little evidence for an impact of PLA alone or combined with unconditional food or cash transfers on women’s agency in the household. Caution is advised before assuming PLA women’s groups alone or with resource transfers necessarily empower women. Routledge 2018-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6540743/ /pubmed/31218298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2018.1448069 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Do Participatory Learning and Action Women’s Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women’s Agency in Rural Nepal?
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title_short Do Participatory Learning and Action Women’s Groups Alone or Combined with Cash or Food Transfers Expand Women’s Agency in Rural Nepal?
title_sort do participatory learning and action women’s groups alone or combined with cash or food transfers expand women’s agency in rural nepal?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6540743/
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