Supporting women's empowerment by changing intrahousehold decision making: A mixed methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south-west Tanzania

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR GENDER Impact Platformen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Antwerpen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen_US
cg.coverage.countryTanzaniaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TZen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.subregionEastern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.subregionSouthern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierEls Lecoutere: 0000-0002-1025-742Xen_US
cg.creator.identifierLan Chu: 0000-0002-3333-6366en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12758en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn1467-7679en_US
cg.issue3en_US
cg.journalDevelopment Policy Reviewen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen_US
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen_US
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusionen_US
cg.subject.impactPlatformGenderen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen_US
cg.volume42en_US
dc.contributor.authorLecoutere, Elsen_US
dc.contributor.authorLan Chuen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-20T19:27:54Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-01-20T19:27:54Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138212en_US
dc.titleSupporting women's empowerment by changing intrahousehold decision making: A mixed methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south-west Tanzaniaen_US
dcterms.abstractIn rural sub‐Saharan Africa, patriarchal social norms and customs often lead to unequal resource access, decision‐making power, and intra‐household power relations between women and men co‐heads of smallholder farm households. Household methodologies are gender‐transformative approaches that aim to achieve gender equality and empower women by improving intra‐household gender relations. Evidence of the impact of such approaches on women's empowerment is still scarce.We assess the effects of a programme that introduces participatory intra‐household decision‐making to challenge gender relations within households on women's empowerment. The programme was delivered to monogamous couples who head smallholder coffee‐farming households in rural south‐west Tanzania.We combine (quasi‐)experimental quantitative and qualitative methods to assess the programme's impact on women's empowerment and how that impact fits with women's valued domains of empowerment and individual pathways to empowerment.Awareness‐raising couple seminars, the programme's least intensive intervention, increased women's access to livestock. Intensive coaching in participatory decision‐making increased women's control over household coffee income—a priority for women. Couple seminars increased women's highly valued involvement in strategic farm decisions—intensive coaching increased it further. Access to personal income, however, valued by women for independent decision‐making for their households' wellbeing, did not change.Gender‐transformative approaches that challenge domestic gender relations can increase women's access to household income and resources, and increase their participation in farming decisions. Such approaches need to be complemented by interventions to increase women's human capital, knowledge of enterprises, and personal resources. Catering for women's diverse pathways towards empowerment may increase their effectiveness. Challenging deep gender norms requires long‐term engagement and trust between change agents and communities.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2023-11-13en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLecoutere, E. and Chu, L. 2024. Supporting women's empowerment by changing intrahousehold decision making: A mixed methods analysis of a field experiment in rural south-west Tanzania. Development Policy Review e12758.en_US
dcterms.issued2023-11-13en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherWileyen_US
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen_US
dcterms.subjectfield experimentationen_US
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen_US
dcterms.subjectwomen’s empowermenten_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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