Creating community‐based indicators of gender equity: A methodology

Carnegie, Michelle; McKinnon, Katharine; Gibson, Katherine

doi:10.1111/apv.12235

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“…In another example of diverse economies inventory in the Pacific, the Melanesian Economies project (McKinnon et al ., 2016; Carnegie et al ., 2019) developed indicators of gender equity relevant to Melanesia, documented a range of non‐capitalist forms of production, exchange and consumption in urban settlements in Solomon Islands and Fiji. Their inventory included informal cash activities and non‐cash economic activities, finding that women perform most of the non‐cash work.…”

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Locating the traditional economy in Port Vila, Vanuatu: Disaster relief and agrobiodiversity

Drake

Liunakwalau

2022

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Alternative economic indicators are becoming policy in Vanuatu, particularly focusing on what national policy calls traditional economy. Although this acknowledges livelihoods and customary land in rural areas, urban places receive less attention. This article advances an argument that cities are also home to traditional economies. We draw on concepts of diverse economies and translocality to examine how economic practices typically associated with community activities on customary land are also found in cities where households lack direct access to customary resources. Empirical data come from the authors' fieldwork and participation in community‐based organisations in Port Vila, Vanuatu, from 2017 to 2020. The case study presents surveys of agrobiodiversity in 27 urban backyards and livelihood practices of 24 households; and accounts of co‐authors' participation in community‐based disaster to distribute disaster relief supplies from urban to rural, create urban markets for rural crops and build urban resilience following Ambae Island's Manaro volcano eruptions and COVID‐19‐related unemployment. This study demonstrates how traditional economies are part of everyday urban life.

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Locating the traditional economy in Port Vila, Vanuatu: Disaster relief and agrobiodiversity

Drake

Liunakwalau

2022

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“…Specifically, if barriers to meaningful participation are not addressed, then providing incentives for women to participate in decision-making may backfire, reinforce or exacerbate existing power imbalances [60][61][62][63][64] . Specifically, insisting that women be newly positioned as decision-makers without addressing how this might challenge social norms [65][66][67] , can lead to increased violence at home, or backlash among male community leaders 64,68 . In India, REDD+ projects aimed to have an equal numbers of women and men in decision-making groups 69 .…”

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Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions

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Gender has a powerful influence on people's experience of, and resilience to, climate change.Global climate change policy is committed to tackling gender inequalities in mitigation and adaptation. However, progress is hindered by numerous challenges, including an enduring set of gender assumptions; women are caring and connected to the environment; women are a homogenous and vulnerable group; gender equality is a women's issue and; gender equality is a numbers game. We provide an overview of how these assumptions essentialize women's and men's characteristics, narrowly diagnose the causes of gender inequality, and thereby propel strategies that have unintended and even counterproductive consequences. We offer four suggestions for a more informed pursuit of gender equality in climate change policy and practice.

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“…First, many low-income countries like Ethiopia have societies where the individualized norms of capitalist economies are not uniformly dominant and intertwined with other values, including kinship, interdependence and networks of reciprocal exchange (Carnegie et al, 2019). For this reason, we propose that the category "money" should also consider these issues when relevant.…”

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Interrogating “entrepreneurship for development”: a counter-narrative based on local stories of women in rural Ethiopia

Cummings

López

2022

IJGE

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PurposeTo interrogate the grand narrative of “entrepreneurship for development” that dominates international development circles, by applying a feminist critical discourse analysis that prioritizes women's situated experiences as local stories.Design/methodology/approachTwo existing frameworks for analysing women's entrepreneurship, namely the 5M (Brush et al., 2009) and the 8M (Abuhussein and Koburtay, 2021) frameworks, are used to examine the local stories of women in rural Ethiopia to provide a counter-narrative to the grand narrative of “entrepreneurship for development”. The local stories are derived from 16 focus group discussions and 32 interviews.FindingsThe findings provide a counter-narrative to the grand narrative of “entrepreneurship for development”, evident in Ethiopia and in international development generally, while demonstrating larger structural issues at play. They challenge entrepreneurship's solely positive effects. While women recognize the benefits of having a business, particularly in terms of financial gains, empowerment and social recognition, they also highlight negative consequences, including uncertainty, concerns for their own personal safety, criticism, stress, limited social life and fear of indebtedness and poverty.Practical implicationsPolicymakers, scholars and development professionals are urged to reflect on the limitations of “entrepreneurship for development” and to consider the negative effects that promoting an acritical grand narrative of entrepreneurship could have on women's lives.Originality/valueThe article advances an innovative partnership between feminist analysis and established women's entrepreneurship frameworks to contest dominant assumptions in the fields of entrepreneurship and international development studies. It adds to the limited empirical evidence on women's entrepreneurial activity in Ethiopia, tests the adequacy of the 5M and 8M frameworks in the rural low-income context of Ethiopia, and proposes a 7+M framework as an alternative to study rural women's entrepreneurship in low and middle income countries.

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Creating community‐based indicators of gender equity: A methodology

Cited by 12 publications

References 19 publications

Locating the traditional economy in Port Vila, Vanuatu: Disaster relief and agrobiodiversity

Locating the traditional economy in Port Vila, Vanuatu: Disaster relief and agrobiodiversity

Gender equality in climate policy and practice hindered by assumptions

Interrogating “entrepreneurship for development”: a counter-narrative based on local stories of women in rural Ethiopia

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