Roads to agency : Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency
Infrastructure projects, and more specifically, roads construction, and maintenance are one of the core operations of the World Bank. However, despite the increase of gender mainstreaming efforts in transport projects little is known about the effe...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/08/24957940/roads-agency-effects-enhancing-women’s-participation-rural-roads-projects-women’s-agency-comparative-assessment-rural-transport-projects-argentina-nicaragua-peru http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22816 |
| Summary: | Infrastructure projects, and more
specifically, roads construction, and maintenance are one of
the core operations of the World Bank. However, despite the
increase of gender mainstreaming efforts in transport
projects little is known about the effects of these
interventions on women’s agency defined as the ability to
make effective choices and transform these choices into
desired outcomes’. This study aims to bridge this knowledge
gap. The study looks at the effects of women’s participation
in roads construction and maintenance and rural economy
promotion activities on women’s agency, which has recently
become a focus of study at the World Bank. Through
individual interviews and focus groups the study assesses
the effects of women-targeted interventions in three rural
transport projects in Argentina, Nicaragua, and Peru. By
focusing on agency, the study sheds light on effects of
gender mainstreaming interventions that have more lasting
effects on gender equality given the catalytic value of
agency on other gender outcomes such as economic
opportunities and endowments. The report is structured as
follows: section one gives introduction. Second section
describes the gender dimensions and agency-enhancing
approaches in transport projects and the gender approaches
in project implementation in the selected case studies. The
third section provides a summary of the methodology of the
study. The fourth section describes the key findings of the
qualitative research. The fifth section presents the lessons
learned to inform future rural transport interventions. The
sixth section provides concluding remarks. |
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