Gender Implications of Social Protection Interventions: recent literature, concepts, methods, analytics, and survey tools, Socioeconomics Discussion Paper Series 31
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: The social protection programmes range from various forms of cash transfers—unconditional, conditional and cash-for-work schemes, employment guarantee, public works schemes, nutrition schemes, and so on. There are many instant where social protection programmes have reached a substantial proportion of the poor, leading to improvement in social and welfare outcomes of the poor and vulnerable communities. While targeting core development and livelihood improvement, these social protection programs increasingly also play a determining role in outcomes related to women’s empowerment, altering role and \nrelationship of men and women in the society, and development pathway of men and women and other vulnerable groups, in general. \nThe main purpose of this paper to review and synthesis on concept, methodology, and \nanalytical tools and techniques on assessment of gender implications of large scale social \nprotection programs. In particular, we discuss these issues in context of the Mahatma \nGandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme ( MGNREGS), which is one of the \nlargest social Protection program in providing in the developing. In particular, here we \nsummarize findings of recent studies on gender implication of MGNREGA; describe and \nillustrate a generic methodological and analytical tool (targeted to MGNREGA study) that \nany practitioner in the field can use in the future for assessing and quantifying gender \ndimensions of Social; Protection program such as MGNREGS and other program world \nwide. By using the example of MGNREGA, and using specific component of the tools and \ntechniques, we have tried to show also the interlinkage between social protection and wider \ndimensions of development (such as economic, environmental, social, institutional and \nhealth / nutrition linkages), with a view towards providing a gender assessment tool which \ncan be adapted for different programs across regions. These tools and instruments have \nalready used by the authors in field survey and quantifying the gender impacts of the \nMGNREGS in selected case study communities in rural India in 2013 and 2014. The lesions \nlearnt while implementing these instruments have been also incorporated in the discussions. \nThis document with synthesis of the recent literature on gender analyses, and \nmethodological guidelines and survey checklist and instruments is expected to be very \nuseful to the practitioners and applied scholars in rural development and gender analysis.
Authors: Chanda Gurung Goodrich, M Bhattarai, A Bose, Cynthia Bantilan
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W628043705