Do individuals’ perceptions of their relative economic status affect their attitudes regarding gender roles in patriarchal societies?
There is a growing focus on gender-sensitive approaches and women’s empowerment in the water, sanitation, and hygiene sectors. At the same time, there is a lack of metrics to measure women’s empowerment in the WASH sector.
Strict lockdown measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic had extensive impacts on agriculture, and especially on women farmers. These effects were worsened by a lack of reliable and timely access to agricultural extension.
Antenatal care (ANC) is an opportunity to receive interventions that can prevent low birth weight (LBW).
Large-scale male outmigration has placed new pressures on both men and women, especially regarding labour division in farm households and involvement in Water Users Associations (WUAs).
Nepal has a long history of irrigation, including government and farmer-managed irrigation systems that are labor- and skill-intensive. Widespread male migration has important effects on Nepalese society.
Social safety nets (SSN) are cash or in-kind/food transfer programs designed to help individuals and households cope with chronic poverty, destitution, and vulnerability (World Bank, 2018).
Though declining in importance as Nepal undergoes structural transformation, agriculture still accounts for 23.9% of GDP and one in five people was employed in the sector with a larger share of women (33 percent) employed in agriculture than men (
This paper compares the empowerment impacts of the UN Joint Program for Rural Women’s Economic Empowerment (JP RWEE) in Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal, and Kyrgyzstan using the Abbreviated Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI).
Ensuring privacy of respondents in phone surveys is especially challenging compared to face-to-face interviews.
This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Nepal.
This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Nepal.
This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Nepal.
This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Nepal.
This dataset is the result of a phone survey set up to measure the impact of COVID-19 on rural people in Nepal.
It is widely recognized that periods of crisis affect men and women differently, mediated by their access to resources and information, as well as social and institutional structures that may systematically disadvantage women from being able to ac
To understand the impact of COVID-19 on rural women, we designed a longitudinal panel study with five rounds of phone survey data collection in Dang district in the mid-western region of Nepal. This note summarizes results from all rounds.
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