The case of MUVA assistentes: beyond income generation to a new approach for Women’s empowerment
Chopra, Deepta, Saha, Devanik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0982-085X, Guimarães, Luize, Bernadete, Lucia and Selvestre, Kerry (2023) The case of MUVA assistentes: beyond income generation to a new approach for Women’s empowerment. [Working Paper] (doi:10.19088/MUVA.2023.002)
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Abstract
This paper highlights the case of MUVA Assistentes, a public works programme (PWP) that provided training and mentoring to young vulnerable women (YVW) in urban Mozambique. Our paper draws out the main learnings from the MUVA Assistentes project to inform the design of other PWPs that have women’s empowerment as their major aim. We show through our analysis that it is possible for PWPs to achieve women’s empowerment, but only if they go beyond a sole focus on income provision through paid work to women. Instead, we argue that if PWPs formulate their theory of change in line with Kabeer (1999)’s notion of empowerment, with its three interrelated dimensions (resources, agency and achievements), women’s empowerment through PWPs can be both realistic and long-lasting.
Item Type: | Working Paper |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | women empowerment; gender; social protection; Mozambique |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) L Education > L Education (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: | Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development > Centre for Inequalities Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Human Sciences (HUM) |
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Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2024 13:36 |
URI: | http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/47602 |
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