Inhalt: This study ascertained the significant effectiveness of Nigeria’s microfinance model of financial inclusion on women empowerment. Following reforms in the financial system geared towards enhancing women financial inclusion and digitalization of financial products and services, its effect on women empowerment becomes imperative. Specifically, we evaluated the effect of available microfinance banks’ products in rural communities via rent savings, child education, new born and daily savings account on women empowerment. A descriptive survey design was utilized to realize our objective. Two hundred (200) questionnaires were distributed to respondents, out of which one hundred and ninety (190) were fully completed and used for the analysis. After checking for internal reliability of the responses through the Alpha Cronbach’s test, we proceeded to applying Pearson correlation and regression estimations. From the regression estimation, we identified a positive and significant relationship between women empowerment and microfinance banks’ products: rent savings, child education, new born and daily savings account. Thus, microfinance model is a policy in the right direction that will result in more financial inclusion of the women population especially, in rural communities. Subsequently, we recommend the creation of more women tailored products by microfinance banks. This will avail them the opportunity to choose from variety of products and services that specifically suit their needs. Furthermore, collateral for women to access finance from these microfinance banks should be community/socially based rather than individually based.

Schlagwörter:Nigeria; Nigeria; Mikrofinanzierung; microfinance; woman; Empowerment; empowerment; Kreditvergabe; lending; Sparen; savings; Benachteiligung; deprivation; gender-specific factors; Partizipation; participation; Entwicklungsland; developing country; Afrika südlich der Sahara; Africa South of the Sahara; financial inclusion; microfinance products

SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie

Verfügbarkeit:https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJHRMS/article/view/329/909

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Schlagwörter:way of life; Andenraum; Gender Mainstreaming; gender; Gleichstellung; well-being; Lebensweise; Bolivien; Gender; Entwicklungstheorie; Entwicklungsland; Andean Region; affirmative action; gender mainstreaming; Wohlbefinden; development theory; Bolivia; developing country

SSOAR Kategorie:Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v38i2.09

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: In this article, we look at colonialities of gender and sexuality as concepts employed in international aid and development. These international arenas reveal not only strong reiterations of modernist linear thinking and colonial continuities but also provide insights into the complexities of the implementation and vernacularisation of gender and sexuality in practices of development. Using a critical anthropological perspective, we discuss case studies based on our own research in Egypt and Bangladesh to illustrate the importance of unpacking exclusionary mechanisms of gender and sexuality scripts in the promotion of women’s rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights in postcolonial development contexts. We provide a conceptual analysis of decolonial feminist attempts at moving beyond the mere critique of development to enable a more inclusive conversation in the field of development. To work towards this goal, we argue, a critical anthropological approach proves promising in allowing a politically-sensitive, ethical, and critical engagement with the Other.

Schlagwörter:Kolonialismus; colonialism; Anthropologie; anthropology; Gender; gender; Sexualität; sexuality; internationale Hilfe; international aid; Entwicklungshilfe; development aid; woman; Menschenrechte; human rights; Postkolonialismus; post-colonialism; Feminismus; feminism; Ägypten; Egypt; Bangladesch; Bangladesh; Entwicklungsland; developing country; Nordafrika; North Africa; Südasien; South Asia; critical anthropology; development;

SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie

Verfügbarkeit:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/...

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: A substantial amount of development programming assumes that women have preferences or aptitudes that are more conducive to economic development. For example, conditional cash transfer programmes commonly deliver funding to female household heads, and many microcredit schemes focus on women’s savings groups. This chapter examines a public goods game in northern Liberia. Women contributed substantially more to a small-scale development project when playing with other women than in mixed-gender groups, where they contributed at about the same levels as men. We try to explain this composition effect using a structural model, survey responses, and a second manipulation. Results suggest women in the all-women group put more weight on co-operation regardless of the value of the public good, the fear of discovery, or the desire to match others’ behaviour. We conjecture that players have stronger motivation to signal public-spiritedness when primed to consider themselves representatives of the women of the community.

Schlagwörter:economic development (on national level); Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Kollektivverhalten; Liberia; woman; collective behavior; Liberia; gender-specific factors; nonmarket good; Westafrika; West Africa; öffentliches Gut; gender; microcredit schemes; public goods; women's savings groups

SSOAR Kategorie:Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829591.003.0010

Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag

Inhalt: Migrant adolescent girls in India’s fast-growing urban-slum population face multiple intersecting vulnerabilities, including gender, poverty and migrant-status. The study aims to understand the opportunities and challenges for migrant adolescent girls in low-income urban slum settings. Qualitative data were collected through interviews with girls aged 12-19 who migrated during the past two years and non-migrant adolescent girls for comparison to explore their experiences in fast-growing Indore. A groupinterview with slum women’s group members discussedways to address challenges. Push/pull factors linked with different employment/educational opportunities between rural and urban areas motivated families of unmarried girls to migrate. Recently married girls joined city-based families or accompanied husbands who were labor migrants. Neither married nor unmarried girls played decision-making roles in migration. Married migrant adolescent girls faced challenges in accessing education, employment, social opportunities and services owing to restrictions on freedom of movement, weak social networks, and little awareness of opportunities and services. Childbearing migrant girls faced particular risks. Contact with their natal families being limited, the quality of relationship with husbands and marital families was crucial for married girls’well-being. Unmarried girls attending schools were positive about the migration experience, perceiving the city to offer greater educational opportunities. Through school, they accessed opportunities for new relationships and social activities. Not all unmarried adolescent-girls wereable to access opportunities owing to family restrictions and economic circumstances. These girls’ worlds remained small despite moving to a large city. Where girls’ economic and/or family and social circumstances allowed, migration entailed a positive change that enhanced their opportunities. Specific challenges of this population segment need focus in policies and programs, prioritizing three particularly vulnerable groups: girls who are neither in education nor employment, pregnant girls or new mothers, and those with difficult relationships in marital homes. Proactive outreach to raise awareness about opportunities and services and fostering social networks through front-line workers and slum women’s groups are recommended.

Schlagwörter:labor migration; Indien; soziales Netzwerk; adolescence; Schwangerschaft; slum; Familiensituation; pregnancy; Migrant; Arbeitsmigration; sozioökonomische Faktoren; large city; Adoleszenz; Jugendlicher; Großstadt; social inequality; Südasien; Slum; poverty; adolescent; migrant; Armut; health care; girl; marriage immigration; social network; Gesundheitsversorgung; Mädchen; socioeconomic factors; exclusion; Entwicklungsland; South Asia; Exklusion; India; family situation; soziale Ungleichheit; Heiratsmigration; developing country; married girls; internal migration; SDGs; women's groups

SSOAR Kategorie:Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Gesundheitspolitik, Migration

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.24321/2349.2880/201601

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: "Although social marketing has been demonstrated to be an effective tool of behavior change in a variety of contexts, its poverty reduction potential in tourism development has captured limited research attention. This paper explores the potential contribution of social marketing to tourism-related poverty alleviation in Sapa, Vietnam. It does so by creating an understanding of how local residents perceive poverty, then exploring whether social marketing could be a potential solution in the case of Sapa. Through participant observations and semi-structured interviews, this study reveals that local people perceive poverty as a lack of rice and/or income and ascribe it to both internal and external factors. Local women often follow tourists to sell handicrafts, causing discomfort for tourists and driving them away from certain destinations. Insufficient capital and farming land are also identified as a critical barrier to poverty reduction. This study argues that by understanding the poor people's perspectives on poverty, we can identify meaningful approaches to poverty alleviation. Thereby, social marketing can be one of the tools to bring the marginalized voice of poor people to the attention of decision-makers." (author's abstract)

Schlagwörter:Vietnam; Vietnam; Tourismus; tourism; Nachhaltigkeit; sustainability; Sozialmanagement; social management; Marketing; marketing; Verhaltensänderung; behavior modification; Armutsbekämpfung; combating poverty; Entwicklungsland; developing country; Südostasien; Southeast Asia

SSOAR Kategorie:Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie, Freizeitforschung, Freizeitsoziologie

Verfügbarkeit:https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-2015.2-2

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: In dem expandierenden Feld des Sport for Development werden mögliche Vorteile der Teilhabe von Jugendlichen breit diskutiert. Zugleich wurde festgestellt, dass einige Jugendliche infolge von z.B. körperlichen oder geistigen Einschränkungen, ihrer örtlichen Zugehörigkeit, der Nichtverfügung über ökonomische Mittel oder ihrer Geschlechtszugehörigkeit nur sehr eingeschränkte Zugangsmöglichkeiten haben. Wir vermuteten, dass hier ideologische Ursachen eine Rolle spielen könnten bzw. versuchten herauszufinden, wie Sport-for-Development-Ideologien jugendliche Partizipationsmöglichkeiten beeinflussen könnten. Ausgehend von empirischem Material, das aus fünf Fallstudien stammt, die in Sport-for-Development-Organisationen in Lusaka (Sambia) durchgeführt wurden, konnten drei Themen identifiziert werden, die ideologische Glaubenssätze in diesen Kontexten betreffen: Der erste, Sport nützt allen, war wesentlich für eine Praxis, in der Sport unkritisch als jugendliche Aktivität angesehen wurde. Der zweite, Gute Kids tun es, unterstrich, was als akzeptiertes Verhalten von Jugendlichen in ihren spezifischen Kontexten galt. Der dritte schließlich, Sport ist ein Ausweg, privilegierte männliche Jugendliche, die Fußball spielten oder allgemeiner athletisch und körperlich nicht beeinträchtigt sind im Vergleich zu weiblichen Jugendliche, armen oder aus ländlichen Regionen stammenden Jugendlichen oder männlichen Jugendlichen mit körperlichen Einschränkungen. Gemeinsam haben diese Glaubenssätze sowohl zu Erfolgen (Sportkarrieren) als auch zu Beeinträchtigungen (Ungleichheit) geführt, die beide mit dem Phänomenon des Sport for Development verbunden sind. (Autorenreferat)

Inhalt: In the burgeoning field of sport-for-development, the benefits of participation for youths have been widely discussed. However, it has also been noted that some youth are excluded based on ability, location, economic means, and gender and are thus not participating. We considered that this might be an issue of ideologies. Thus, it was the purpose of this study to use a critical occupational approach to explore how sport-for-development ideologies in Zambia shape the participation of young people. Drawing on empirical data gathered from five case studies of sport-for-development organizations in Lusaka, Zambia, three themes were identified that describe ideological beliefs within the Zambian sport-for-development context. The first, sport benefits all, contributed to the practice of sport being used uncritically as an activity for all youth. The second, good people do, perpetuated what were considered acceptable activities that boys and girls could do in the local context. Finally, a belief that sport is the way out privileged boys who play football as well as athletic non-disabled boys in opposition to girls, poor youths, rural youths, and girls and boys with disabilities. Together these beliefs have contributed to successes (careers in sport) and shortcomings (occupational injustices) associated with the sport-for-development phenomenon. (author's abstract)

Schlagwörter:Sambia; Zambia; Sport; sports; Jugendlicher; adolescent; soziale Partizipation; social participation; Exklusion; exclusion; soziale Chance; social opportunity; Entwicklungspolitik; development policy; südliches Afrika; Southern Africa

SSOAR Kategorie:Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie, Freizeitforschung, Freizeitsoziologie

Verfügbarkeit:https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502120

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

Inhalt: Die südafrikanische Migrationsforschung hat der Beziehung von Migranten zu ihren Familien und insbesondere den emotionalen und kognitiven Aspekten dieser Beziehung im Lichte von Gender-Transformation bisher wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Ausgehend von einer qualitativen Studie, an der sechs simbabwische Migranten, die in Johannesberg leben, und drei derer in Simbabwe verbliebenen Frauen teilnahmen, versuche ich zu zeigen, welche Potenziale und Hemmnisse aus transnationaler Migration für die Rekonstitution gender-normativer Beziehungen in solchen Familien erwachsen: Die Analyse der Interviews mit den Migranten und ihren Frauen verdeutlichte, dass Letztere -obwohl mütterliche und väterliche Rollenbilder im Zuge transnationaler Trennung immer verschwommen werden- angesichts erheblicher häuslicher Herausforderungen gender-normative Erwartungen an ihre abwesenden Männer richten. Auf diese Weise werden gender-normative Erziehungsstile in diesen transnational getrennten Familien intensiviert. (Autorenreferat)

Inhalt: Migration research in Southern Africa has paid little attention to migrant men's involvement in the family, including their emotional and cognitive work, as well as associated gender transformations. Based on a qualitative study of six Zimbabwean migrant fathers in Johannesburg and three non-migrant women in Zimbabwe, this article argues that transnational migration at once presents opportunities for and obstacles to the reconstitution of gender-normative forms of parental involvement in migrant families. The analysis of the narratives of migrant men and their spouses demonstrates that, although maternal and paternal roles may become considerably indistinct in the context of transnational separations, non-migrant women may emphasize gender-normative expectations in their negotiations with distant fathers when faced with huge responsibilities at home. Such negotiations tend to reinforce gender-normative parenting in transnational split families. (author's abstract)

Schlagwörter:Vaterschaft; fatherhood; Gender; gender; Familie; family; Migration; migration; Migrant; migrant; Erziehungsstil; parenting style; Transnationalität; transnationality; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Mutterschaft; motherhood; Republik Südafrika; Republic of South Africa; Simbabwe; Zimbabwe; südliches Afrika; Southern Africa; Afrika südlich der Sahara; Africa South of the Sahara; anglophones Afrika; English-speaking Africa; Entwicklungsland; developing country; Afrika; Africa; Interview; interview

SSOAR Kategorie:Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie, Migration

Verfügbarkeit:https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1502209

Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz

SSOAR Kategorie:Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung

Verfügbarkeit:https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-7908

Dokumenttyp:Rezension

Inhalt: Malnutrition, i.e. the undersupply of micro-nutrients, is a common phenomenon in the villages of West African Mali. Community gardening can help to overcome the gap between supply of and requirements for micro-nutrients. In addition to its effect on nutrition, community gardening supports the pro-poor orientation of economic growth, and has a potentially positive effect on human capital formation, communal coherence, and women’s empowerment. Water supply, however, is a major bottleneck for gardening in the Sahel zone. Based on a field survey using a “rapid rural appraisal”-inspired research method, the paper develops the argument for a de-linking of irrigation from deep wells (water mining) and argues in favour of a combination of water harvesting techniques and substantial improvements of the gardens’ micro-climate in a low external input yet technically appropriately sophisticated cultivation. The paper furthermore discusses traditional forms of social organisation and how to make them instrumental in supporting the new system.

Schlagwörter:Mali; Mali; Unterernährung; undernourishment; Gartenbau; horticulture; Wasser; water; Bewässerung; irrigation; Nahrungsmittel; food; Versorgung; supply; Armutsbekämpfung; combating poverty; Entwicklungshilfe; development aid; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations; Arbeitsteilung; division of labor; woman; ländliche Entwicklung; rural development; Westafrika; West Africa; Entwicklungsland; developing country; water harvesting

SSOAR Kategorie:Entwicklungsländersoziologie, Entwicklungssoziologie

Verfügbarkeit:https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-341370

Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht