Journal
WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 66, Issue -, Pages 762-777Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.09.005
Keywords
empowerment; women; development; agency; Tanzania; Maasai
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- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0921507] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We argue that women's empowerment is an ongoing, incremental, and relational process that occurs across scales and pathways. Using a contextualized mixed methods approach, we measure empowerment processes unfolding across Maasai villages in northern Tanzania as related to the interventions of two innovative grassroots NGOs. Our results indicate increased personal agency in the household and increased political participation at the societal level as related to NGO involvement. Moreover, we show links between increased personal agency, and changes in beliefs regarding gender norms at the societal level. This highlights the transformative potential for change and the links across empowerment pathways. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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