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Empowering women with digital extension in Uganda: Effects of information and role models by Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

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Role model video encouraging rural women participating in community planning by Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan, Nayarayan, Sudha, Raghunathan, Kalyani

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Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role-model effects in rural Uganda by Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…The research tests the relative impact of the videos, contrasting their informational effects versus their role model effects, on women’s knowledge, their agency, and their achievements in farming. …”
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Women’s empowerment, agricultural extension, and digitalization: Disentangling information and role model effects in rural Uganda by Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…We then vary exposure to the gender of the actors in the videos to test for role-model effects, exploring whether involving women as information messengers challenges the idea that decision-making is a predominantly male domain, in turn affecting women’s outcomes. …”
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Will video kill the radio star? Assessing the potential of targeted exposure to role models through video by Bernard, Tanguy, Dercon, Stefan, Orkin, Kate, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

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Empowering women through targeting information or role models: Evidence from an experiment in agricultural extension in Uganda by Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

“…We find some support that featuring female role models in the videos challenges men’s beliefs and stereotypes about women’s roles in agriculture, and encourages adoption of recommended practices by women. …”
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Empowering women through targeting information or role models: Evidence from an experiment in agricultural extension in Uganda by Lecoutere, Els, Spielman, David J., Van Campenhout, Bjorn

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Can role models and skills training increase women’s voice in asset selection? Experimental evidence from Odisha, India by Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan, Narayanan, Sudha, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Ray, Soumyajit

“…While the role model treatment exposes women to a video with stories of female role models from neighboring districts who successfully demanded assets, the skills training shows women how to identify individual and group needs for assets, frame their demands, and articulate them to public functionaries. …”
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Increasing Women’s Voice and Agency Using Role Models and Skills Training: Experimental Evidence from the MNREGA Program in Odisha, India by Kosec, Katrina, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Kyle, Jordan, Narayanan, Sudha, Karachiwalla, Naureen

“…Can exposing women to role models improve their participation in community decision-making and broadly increase their perceived voice and agency beyond the household? …”
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Superlibrarian spreads wings by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…A role model for new-style information professionals, Thiendou Niang has little of the characteristics of the 1970 s generation of librarians from which he came. …”
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A young Ethiopian woman inspires others in her community to make it at home by Tesfaye, Y., Teshale, T., Moges, A., Girma, R., Mekuria, Wolde, Smith, J., Hallet, P., Phimister, E.

“…After migrating three times, Senya started an irrigation-based vegetable farming business; today, she is a role model for young people in her rural community to pursue domestic opportunities.…”
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Using incentives to improve performance of extension services in Rwanda by Kinyua, Henry, Lion, Karin, Agarwal, Shreya

“…The Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC), in partnership with One Acre Fund and the Rwanda Agriculture Board, is investigating the impact of providing incentives to farmer promoters at national scale. Acting as role model farmers, they are the first point of contact for Rwandan farmers with the goal of improving productivity by increasing adoption of good agricultural practices and access to improved inputs. …”
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Det sköna landskapet by Forsberg, Sofia

“…The garden of the Rudolf Steiner seminar in Ytterjärna has been a role model for anthroposophical values in landscape engineering in Sweden. …”
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Women in chicken business: An ILRI innovation scaled through the Maisha Makutano TV series by Galiè, Alessandra, Campbell, Zoë A., Jumba, Humphrey, Gichuki, Kenneth

“…At the same time, it addressed gender norms that are likely to restrict women from engaging in business by promoting a positive image of women agripreneurs, and by providing a role model of men who support their womenfolk in business and get empowered (rather than disempowered) as a result. …”
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Entrepreneurial intention among undergraduate agricultural students in the Republic of Benin by Kaki, R.S., Mignouna, Djana B., Aoudji, K.N.A., Adeoti, A.

“…The significant factors that influence agricultural students’ entrepreneurial intention in agribusiness were age, their major field of study, type of university attended, previous experience in agribusiness, a role model as a friend, and perception of agribusiness environment. …”
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Entrepreneurial potential and agribusiness desirability among youths in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo by Simbeko, G., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Sekabira, H., Yami, M., Amato-Masirika, S., Bheenick, K., Bugandwa, D., Nyamuhirwa, D.A., Mignouna, J., Bamba, Z., Manyong, Victor

“…Hence, the youth’s agribusiness desirability is motivated by an awareness of emerging agripreneurial activities, land ownership, parent involvement in farming activities as a role model, perceived agribusiness as an employment source, management-organizing and opportunistic competencies, market analysis, negotiating, and planning skills. …”
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MGNREGA Program Asset Selection: A leaflet providing women information on how to participate by Kosec, Katrina, Kyle, Jordan, Narayanan, Sudha, Raghunathan, Kalyani

“…It is used in conjunction with other interventions, including a public speaking training and a role model video, being deployed in Odisha in 2023 in order to expand women’s voice and agency in asset selection.…”
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The empowering journey: Nepalese women transforming from margins to empowerment by Jati, Raju, Maharjan, Rumi

“…This Dalit women’s group has emerged as role model for society and other communities. To examine the impact of the project and to explore the intricate details of the change process, a comprehensive qualitative study was conducted that included in-depth interviews and FGDs with members of the women’s group. …”
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Landskapsarkitektens arbete med växtlighet som ett föränderligt material by Jansson, Malin

Med staden som förebild : reflektioner kring det stadsmässiga by Nordqvist, Maria

“…How do we use the city as a role model? Is urbane building the same as building a city? …”