Heifer’s intervention for empowering women to transform communities

cg.contributor.affiliationHeifer Internationalen
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactPlatformGender
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
dc.contributor.authorSreshtha, Sunminaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-04T12:46:29Zen
dc.date.available2024-01-04T12:46:29Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/136949
dc.titleHeifer’s intervention for empowering women to transform communitiesen
dcterms.abstractSmallholder farmers in Nepal mostly women, engaged in household and farm activities with limited resources and access to services. Women’s empowerment is cross-cutting and not the primary goal of most of the interventions. This study measures the outcomes of Heifer’s intervention in women’s empowerment to improve livelihoods through strengthening of the social capital, improved access to services, finance and income. The study employed mixed methods, combining quantitative and qualitative approaches. The quantitative study involved 251 respondents, 176 of whom were female beneficiaries and 75 of whom were some of their male family members from the Heifer, Nepal, working area. The qualitative study involved 10 focus group discussions and key informant interviews with various stakeholders. Secondary data from the nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) database of Nepal, Bangladesh and India were used to corroborate the findings. We found that women who are part of Heifer’s intervention, outperform compared to other women from India, Bangladesh and Nepal in financial independence, ownership of assets and agency. The results show the intervention has significantly improved financial autonomy, thereby allowing women to become the primary decision-maker for their personal finances. Their confidence in depositing the savings in formal institutions has increased significantly. A very promising shift in attitudes shows 56% of men agreeing that unpaid care work should be shared equally between men and women. This shows Heifer’s approach to be effective in achieving women’s empowerment.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSreshtha, Sunmina. 2023. Heifer’s intervention for empowering women to transform communities. Poster. Presented at the CGIAR GENDER Conference 'From Research to Impact: Towards just and resilient agri-food systems', New Delhi, India, 9-12 October 2023. Heifer Internationalen
dcterms.issued2023-10-10
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseOther
dcterms.publisherHeifer Internationalen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectresearchen
dcterms.subjectwomen's empowermenten
dcterms.typePoster

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