Johnson Nancy L, Kovarik Chiara, Meinzen-Dick Ruth, Njuki Jemimah, Quisumbing Agnes
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), USA.
Canada's International Development Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya.
World Dev. 2016 Jul;83:295-311. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.01.009.
Ownership of assets is important for poverty reduction, and women's control of assets is associated with positive development outcomes at the household and individual levels. This research was undertaken to provide guidance for agricultural development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions. This paper synthesizes the findings of eight mixed-method evaluations of the impacts of agricultural development projects on individual and household assets in seven countries in Africa and South Asia. The results show that assets both affect and are affected by projects, indicating that it is both feasible and important to consider assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of projects. All projects were associated with increases in asset levels and other benefits at the household level; however, only four projects documented significant, positive impacts on women's ownership or control of some types of assets relative to a control group, and of those only one project provided evidence of a reduction in the gender asset gap. The quantitative and qualitative findings suggest ways that greater attention to gender and assets by researchers and development implementers could improve outcomes for women in future projects.
资产所有权对减贫至关重要，而女性对资产的控制与家庭和个人层面的积极发展成果相关联。开展这项研究是为了就农业发展项目如何在干预措施的设计、实施和评估中纳入性别与资产因素提供指导。本文综合了对非洲和南亚七个国家农业发展项目对个人和家庭资产影响的八项混合方法评估的结果。结果表明，资产既受项目影响，也对项目产生影响，这表明在项目的设计、实施和评估中考虑资产因素既可行又重要。所有项目都与家庭层面资产水平的提高及其他益处相关；然而，相对于对照组，只有四个项目记录了对女性对某些类型资产的所有权或控制权有显著的积极影响，其中只有一个项目提供了性别资产差距缩小的证据。定量和定性研究结果表明，研究人员和发展项目实施者更多地关注性别与资产因素的方式可以改善未来项目中女性的成果。
