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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TRANSPORT MARKET AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORT SECTOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INDIGENOUS WOMEN ROAD IMPROVEMENTS GENDER MAINSTREAMING EFFORTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE VEHICLES TRANSPORTATION COSTS RURAL WOMEN ROAD BUILDING PROPERTY RIGHTS TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH LABOR FORCE TREND FEMALE PARTICIPANTS DISCRIMINATION GENDER EQUITY RURAL TRANSPORT TRAVEL BEHAVIOR BICYCLES TRAFFIC ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD MAINTENANCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION WEALTH SOCIAL ASSISTANCE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ACCESS TO HEALTH GENDER FOCAL POINTS GENDER BIAS AWARENESS TRAINING DRIVERS TRANSPORT DESIGN GENDER DIMENSIONS TRANSPORT MODES TRAVEL COSTS TRAVEL ACTIVITY VEHICLE LABOR MARKET TYPES OF ROADS CAR USE BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION ROAD COSTS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS TRAINING INFORMAL ECONOMY ROAD SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT TRANSPORT GENDER MAINSTREAMING LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORT PLANNING MOBILITY RAPE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ACCESS ROADS VIOLENCE GENDER AWARENESS GENDER APPROACH GENDER NORMS HOUSEHOLD INCOME TRUE TRANSPORT PROJECTS INTERSECTIONS RURAL ROADS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FEMALE WORK ROUTE GENDER ISSUES TRANSPORT POLICY CHILD CARE WDR GRANTS TRAVEL PATTERNS INFRASTRUCTURE TAXES BUSES ACCESS TO SCHOOLS INITIATIVES FEMALE ENGINEERS GENDER GAPS DRIVING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GENDER SEGREGATION TRAVEL TRANSPORTATION TRANSIT ACCESS TO JOBS POLICIES WHO TRUCKS GENDER EXPERT GENDER SPECIALIST ROAD MANAGEMENT WOMEN EMPLOYEES POLICE ROAD SAFETY CARS GENDER HOUSEHOLD TRANSPORT HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL MEANS OF TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE GENDER AWARENESS TRAINING AWARENESS WORKSHOPS WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT FAMILY PLANNING PUBLIC TRANSPORT GENDER RELATED ACTIVITIES FLEXIBLE WORKING ARRANGEMENTS URBAN MOBILITY FORM OF VIOLENCE TRIP PURPOSES ROAD PROJECTS ACCESS TO MARKETS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS PUBLIC WORKS HOUSEHOLD CHORES PORT INFRASTRUCTURE ELDERLY PEOPLE STREETS BRIDGE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT OLDER WOMEN ROAD USER ROADS PUBLIC TRANSPORT MARKET CAR PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN ECONOMIES OF SCALE PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT ACCIDENTS PEDESTRIAN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INSTITUTIONAL LINKAGES LABORERS TRIP RURAL TRANSPORTATION GIRLS INVESTMENTS CONFLICT RESOLUTION ROAD CONDITIONS HOUSEHOLD WORK WOMEN TRANSPORT COSTS LABOR MARKETS ROAD TRANSPORT TRAVEL TIME SAFETY BARRIERS TO WOMEN GENDER ROLES TRANSPORT POLICIES GENDER EQUALITY ACCIDENT RATES |
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TRANSPORT MARKET AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORT SECTOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INDIGENOUS WOMEN ROAD IMPROVEMENTS GENDER MAINSTREAMING EFFORTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE VEHICLES TRANSPORTATION COSTS RURAL WOMEN ROAD BUILDING PROPERTY RIGHTS TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH LABOR FORCE TREND FEMALE PARTICIPANTS DISCRIMINATION GENDER EQUITY RURAL TRANSPORT TRAVEL BEHAVIOR BICYCLES TRAFFIC ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD MAINTENANCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION WEALTH SOCIAL ASSISTANCE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ACCESS TO HEALTH GENDER FOCAL POINTS GENDER BIAS AWARENESS TRAINING DRIVERS TRANSPORT DESIGN GENDER DIMENSIONS TRANSPORT MODES TRAVEL COSTS TRAVEL ACTIVITY VEHICLE LABOR MARKET TYPES OF ROADS CAR USE BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION ROAD COSTS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS TRAINING INFORMAL ECONOMY ROAD SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT TRANSPORT GENDER MAINSTREAMING LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORT PLANNING MOBILITY RAPE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ACCESS ROADS VIOLENCE GENDER AWARENESS GENDER APPROACH GENDER NORMS HOUSEHOLD INCOME TRUE TRANSPORT PROJECTS INTERSECTIONS RURAL ROADS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FEMALE WORK ROUTE GENDER ISSUES TRANSPORT POLICY CHILD CARE WDR GRANTS TRAVEL PATTERNS INFRASTRUCTURE TAXES BUSES ACCESS TO SCHOOLS INITIATIVES FEMALE ENGINEERS GENDER GAPS DRIVING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GENDER SEGREGATION TRAVEL TRANSPORTATION TRANSIT ACCESS TO JOBS POLICIES WHO TRUCKS GENDER EXPERT GENDER SPECIALIST ROAD MANAGEMENT WOMEN EMPLOYEES POLICE ROAD SAFETY CARS GENDER HOUSEHOLD TRANSPORT HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL MEANS OF TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE GENDER AWARENESS TRAINING AWARENESS WORKSHOPS WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT FAMILY PLANNING PUBLIC TRANSPORT GENDER RELATED ACTIVITIES FLEXIBLE WORKING ARRANGEMENTS URBAN MOBILITY FORM OF VIOLENCE TRIP PURPOSES ROAD PROJECTS ACCESS TO MARKETS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS PUBLIC WORKS HOUSEHOLD CHORES PORT INFRASTRUCTURE ELDERLY PEOPLE STREETS BRIDGE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT OLDER WOMEN ROAD USER ROADS PUBLIC TRANSPORT MARKET CAR PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN ECONOMIES OF SCALE PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT ACCIDENTS PEDESTRIAN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INSTITUTIONAL LINKAGES LABORERS TRIP RURAL TRANSPORTATION GIRLS INVESTMENTS CONFLICT RESOLUTION ROAD CONDITIONS HOUSEHOLD WORK WOMEN TRANSPORT COSTS LABOR MARKETS ROAD TRANSPORT TRAVEL TIME SAFETY BARRIERS TO WOMEN GENDER ROLES TRANSPORT POLICIES GENDER EQUALITY ACCIDENT RATES World Bank Group Roads to agency : Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency |
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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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World Bank Group |
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Roads to agency : Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency |
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Roads to agency : Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency |
| title_full |
Roads to agency : Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency |
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Roads to agency : Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency |
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Roads to agency : Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency |
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roads to agency : effects of enhancing women’s participation in rural roads projects on women’s agency |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2015 |
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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 |
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okr-10986-228162021-04-23T14:04:10Z Roads to agency : Effects of Enhancing Women’s Participation in Rural Roads Projects on Women’s Agency World Bank Group TRANSPORT MARKET AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORT SECTOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INDIGENOUS WOMEN ROAD IMPROVEMENTS GENDER MAINSTREAMING EFFORTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE VEHICLES TRANSPORTATION COSTS RURAL WOMEN ROAD BUILDING PROPERTY RIGHTS TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH LABOR FORCE TREND FEMALE PARTICIPANTS DISCRIMINATION GENDER EQUITY RURAL TRANSPORT TRAVEL BEHAVIOR BICYCLES TRAFFIC ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD MAINTENANCE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION WEALTH SOCIAL ASSISTANCE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ACCESS TO HEALTH GENDER FOCAL POINTS GENDER BIAS AWARENESS TRAINING DRIVERS TRANSPORT DESIGN GENDER DIMENSIONS TRANSPORT MODES TRAVEL COSTS TRAVEL ACTIVITY VEHICLE LABOR MARKET TYPES OF ROADS CAR USE BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION ROAD COSTS RURAL HOUSEHOLDS TRAINING INFORMAL ECONOMY ROAD SECTOR EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT TRANSPORT GENDER MAINSTREAMING LONG-DISTANCE TRANSPORT PLANNING MOBILITY RAPE ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ACCESS ROADS VIOLENCE GENDER AWARENESS GENDER APPROACH GENDER NORMS HOUSEHOLD INCOME TRUE TRANSPORT PROJECTS INTERSECTIONS RURAL ROADS SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT FEMALE WORK ROUTE GENDER ISSUES TRANSPORT POLICY CHILD CARE WDR GRANTS TRAVEL PATTERNS INFRASTRUCTURE TAXES BUSES ACCESS TO SCHOOLS INITIATIVES FEMALE ENGINEERS GENDER GAPS DRIVING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GENDER SEGREGATION TRAVEL TRANSPORTATION TRANSIT ACCESS TO JOBS POLICIES WHO TRUCKS GENDER EXPERT GENDER SPECIALIST ROAD MANAGEMENT WOMEN EMPLOYEES POLICE ROAD SAFETY CARS GENDER HOUSEHOLD TRANSPORT HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL MEANS OF TRANSPORT ACCESSIBILITY RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE GENDER AWARENESS TRAINING AWARENESS WORKSHOPS WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT FAMILY PLANNING PUBLIC TRANSPORT GENDER RELATED ACTIVITIES FLEXIBLE WORKING ARRANGEMENTS URBAN MOBILITY FORM OF VIOLENCE TRIP PURPOSES ROAD PROJECTS ACCESS TO MARKETS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS PUBLIC WORKS HOUSEHOLD CHORES PORT INFRASTRUCTURE ELDERLY PEOPLE STREETS BRIDGE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT OLDER WOMEN ROAD USER ROADS PUBLIC TRANSPORT MARKET CAR PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN ECONOMIES OF SCALE PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT ACCIDENTS PEDESTRIAN VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INSTITUTIONAL LINKAGES LABORERS TRIP RURAL TRANSPORTATION GIRLS INVESTMENTS CONFLICT RESOLUTION ROAD CONDITIONS HOUSEHOLD WORK WOMEN TRANSPORT COSTS LABOR MARKETS ROAD TRANSPORT TRAVEL TIME SAFETY BARRIERS TO WOMEN GENDER ROLES TRANSPORT POLICIES GENDER EQUALITY ACCIDENT RATES 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. 2015-11-03T17:51:03Z 2015-11-03T17:51:03Z 2015 Working Paper 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 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research Nicaragua |