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The Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia

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  • Natalie Naïri Quinn
  • Simone Lombardini

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In this paper we develop the Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment, an innovative measurement tool that reflects its subjects’ own perceptions of empowerment. Participatory measurement is a response to the paradoxical potential for measurement of empowerment to disempower. A simple stated choice experiment allows participants to implicitly reveal the trade-offs that they make between different indicators of empowerment. This permits participatory determination of the relative weights for each indicator in a composite index, through estimation of a random utility model. We demonstrate the implementation of PIWE through a pilot application in the context of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of an Oxfam project in Tunisia. Despite a relatively small sample size, we can reject the hypothesis that participants’ perceptions of empowerment are consistent with equal weights. We find that the project had a significant positive impact on participants’ empowerment and find suggestive evidence of impact on their perceptions of empowerment.

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  • Natalie Naïri Quinn & Simone Lombardini, 2024. "The Participatory Index of Women’s Empowerment: development and an application in Tunisia," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(1), pages 54-73, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:oxdevs:v:52:y:2024:i:1:p:54-73
    DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2023.2270437
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