Abstract
The findings suggest that combining a gender and business training leads to significant improvements in gender and business knowledge of participating women. The training is also found to positively impact business performances of female-run businesses leading to increase in profit margins.Â
Furthermore the study finds that women who were accompanied by husbands at the training had more bargaining power within the household. Even though the additional impact of inviting husbands is not significant, the results suggest that the involvement of men might improve the impact of the training in the longer run, especially regarding gender issues. In the short term though the study finds no evidence that inclusion of husbands helped improve women bargaining power. However, at the same time, the qualitative evaluation suggests that most women appreciated the involvement of husbands in the trainings very much. In order to scale-up the intervention later, women in the treated group recommended that men should be trained in the gender module. While the regression results show positive effects of inviting husbands on several outcome variables, the additional effects are not statistically significant, possibly due to a low power of the estimates, in combination with small effect sizes on account of the short time period under consideration.
Furthermore the study finds that women who were accompanied by husbands at the training had more bargaining power within the household. Even though the additional impact of inviting husbands is not significant, the results suggest that the involvement of men might improve the impact of the training in the longer run, especially regarding gender issues. In the short term though the study finds no evidence that inclusion of husbands helped improve women bargaining power. However, at the same time, the qualitative evaluation suggests that most women appreciated the involvement of husbands in the trainings very much. In order to scale-up the intervention later, women in the treated group recommended that men should be trained in the gender module. While the regression results show positive effects of inviting husbands on several outcome variables, the additional effects are not statistically significant, possibly due to a low power of the estimates, in combination with small effect sizes on account of the short time period under consideration.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | International Initiative for Impact Evaluation |
Number of pages | 82 |
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Publication status | Published - Jun 2015 |