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Greater than the Sum of the Parts? Evidence on Mechanisms Operating in Women’s Groups

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dc.contributor.authorDíaz-Martin, Lucía
dc.contributor.authorGopalan, Akshara
dc.contributor.authorGuarnieri, Eleonora
dc.contributor.authorJayachandran, Seema
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-18T20:15:03Z
dc.date.available2023-07-18T20:15:03Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-25
dc.description.abstractWomen's groups are a popular approach to promoting women's and girls’ empowerment. Yet, whether and how creating and supporting women's groups and delivering interventions through them offers unique benefits compared to individual-based interventions remains an open question. We review the experimental and quasi-experimental literature on women's livelihoods and financial groups, health groups, and adolescent groups, and analyze the causal mechanisms through which these models improved outcomes for women and girls in low and middle-income countries. We distinguish between mechanisms that leveraged groups as a platform for intervention delivery and mechanisms that leveraged interactions among group members. We conclude that the primary benefit of group models is to offer a platform to reach many women at once with resources, information, and training. Nonetheless, some evidence suggests that group models can achieve positive impacts by fostering or harnessing interactions among group members, which would be harder or impossible to achieve through individual-based interventions. We offer some suggestions regarding the implications of these findings for programming and future research.en
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Research Observer
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/40033
dc.identifier.issn0257-3032 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-6971 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/40033
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Research Observer
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectWOMEN’S GROUPS
dc.subjectCOLLECTIVES
dc.subjectSELF-HELP GROUPS
dc.subjectWOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
dc.subjectWOMEN’S AGENCY
dc.titleGreater than the Sum of the Parts? Evidence on Mechanisms Operating in Women’s Groupsen
dc.typeJournal Article
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.associatedcontenthttps://academic.oup.com/wbro/article/38/1/1/6554387 Journal Website (version of record)
okr.crossref.titleGreater than the Sum of the Parts? Evidence on Mechanisms Operating in Women’s Groups
okr.date.disclosure2023-08-15
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Journal Article
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wbro/lkac001
okr.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1596/40033
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pagenumber1-35
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.topicGender::Gender Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.volume38 (1)
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