Can Trainings on Women's Voice and Agency Raise Women's Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria

Do training interventions designed to strengthen women’s individual and collective efficacy and political participation influence their economic behaviors and outcomes--specifically, their aspirations, entrepreneurial activities, and well-being? What, if any, additive effects do training interventio...

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Main Authors: Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan, Mo, Cecilia
Format: Otro
Language:Inglés
Published: AEA RCT Registry 2023
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137527
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description Do training interventions designed to strengthen women’s individual and collective efficacy and political participation influence their economic behaviors and outcomes--specifically, their aspirations, entrepreneurial activities, and well-being? What, if any, additive effects do training interventions intended to improve husbands' allyship in women's empowerment and gender equality play? We will answer these questions with a randomized control trial to be implemented in 450 communities (i.e., wards) across three southwestern states of Nigeria (Ogun, Osun, and Oyo) in 2023. In both treatment and control communities, we will recruit previously unaffiliated women to join women’s action committees (WACs) to be trained by ActionAid Nigeria: 1/3 of WACs (control group) will receive basic training in civic education; 1/3 (treatment group 1) will receive civic education training in addition to intensive training in advocacy, leadership, and organizing; and 1/3 (treatment group 2) will receive the same trainings as treatment group 1 and their husbands will be invited to participate in a parallel men's training focused on men's allyship in women's empowerment and gender equality. In addition to their effects on economic behaviors and outcomes, we will also examine potential mechanisms explaining these effects, by considering the effects of treatment on measures of women's beliefs in self- and group efficacy; women's locus of control; women's self-esteem; women's trust levels; women's perceptions of the cause of poverty; women’s own gender norms about views on appropriate roles for women; and intra-household bargaining power between husbands and wives over economic decision-making. If we secure additional funding, we will also assess whether husbands’ gender norms about appropriate roles for women; husbands’ supportive actions to facilitate women’s activities outside the home; husband's beliefs that supporting women's participation is socially normative; and recognition that men have an important role to play in supporting women's participation are mechanisms.
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spelling CGSpace1375272025-12-08T10:11:39Z Can Trainings on Women's Voice and Agency Raise Women's Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria Kosec, Katrina Kyle, Jordan Mo, Cecilia agriculture gender behaviour labour livelihoods Do training interventions designed to strengthen women’s individual and collective efficacy and political participation influence their economic behaviors and outcomes--specifically, their aspirations, entrepreneurial activities, and well-being? What, if any, additive effects do training interventions intended to improve husbands' allyship in women's empowerment and gender equality play? We will answer these questions with a randomized control trial to be implemented in 450 communities (i.e., wards) across three southwestern states of Nigeria (Ogun, Osun, and Oyo) in 2023. In both treatment and control communities, we will recruit previously unaffiliated women to join women’s action committees (WACs) to be trained by ActionAid Nigeria: 1/3 of WACs (control group) will receive basic training in civic education; 1/3 (treatment group 1) will receive civic education training in addition to intensive training in advocacy, leadership, and organizing; and 1/3 (treatment group 2) will receive the same trainings as treatment group 1 and their husbands will be invited to participate in a parallel men's training focused on men's allyship in women's empowerment and gender equality. In addition to their effects on economic behaviors and outcomes, we will also examine potential mechanisms explaining these effects, by considering the effects of treatment on measures of women's beliefs in self- and group efficacy; women's locus of control; women's self-esteem; women's trust levels; women's perceptions of the cause of poverty; women’s own gender norms about views on appropriate roles for women; and intra-household bargaining power between husbands and wives over economic decision-making. If we secure additional funding, we will also assess whether husbands’ gender norms about appropriate roles for women; husbands’ supportive actions to facilitate women’s activities outside the home; husband's beliefs that supporting women's participation is socially normative; and recognition that men have an important role to play in supporting women's participation are mechanisms. 2023-12-20 2024-01-10T17:31:27Z 2024-01-10T17:31:27Z Other https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137527 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136962 https://osf.io/42pq9 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135815 https://osf.io/kxyj9 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136952 Open Access AEA RCT Registry Kosec, Katrina; Kyle, Jordan; and Mo, Cecilia. 2023. Can Trainings on Women's Voice and Agency Raise Women's Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria. AEA RCT Registry
spellingShingle agriculture
gender
behaviour
labour
livelihoods
Kosec, Katrina
Kyle, Jordan
Mo, Cecilia
Can Trainings on Women's Voice and Agency Raise Women's Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria
title Can Trainings on Women's Voice and Agency Raise Women's Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria
title_full Can Trainings on Women's Voice and Agency Raise Women's Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria
title_fullStr Can Trainings on Women's Voice and Agency Raise Women's Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria
title_full_unstemmed Can Trainings on Women's Voice and Agency Raise Women's Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria
title_short Can Trainings on Women's Voice and Agency Raise Women's Aspirations, Entrepreneurial Activities, and Well-being? Evidence From Rural Nigeria
title_sort can trainings on women s voice and agency raise women s aspirations entrepreneurial activities and well being evidence from rural nigeria
topic agriculture
gender
behaviour
labour
livelihoods
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/137527
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