“Credit plus” microcredit schemes: a key to women's adaptive capacity

Caretta, Martina Angela

doi:10.1080/17565529.2014.886990

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“…Afriyie et al, 2018), whilst a minority focus expressly on women (e.g. Caretta, 2014). Other papers look at gendered perceptions of performance of adaptation projects (e.g.…”

Section: Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

The evolution of empirical adaptation research in the global South from 2010 to 2020

Vincent

Cundill

2021

Climate and Development

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This paper applies a scoping review approach to inductively assess the evolution of empirical adaptation research in the global South over the period 2010 to 2020 using, as indicators of the literature, three leading adaptation journals covering different scales of analysis: Global Environmental Change, Regional Environmental Change and Climate and Development. The review confirms that previous calls for an increase in empirical adaptation research have been heeded. Research covers both policy and practice, and also different scales, with a particular focus on agricultural and rural settings. There is significant and growing interest in the determinants of adaptation and adaptive capacity (including the role of barriers and enablers), and a small but growing interest in the role of gender. The overall increase in total publications does not show even geographical or sectoral coverage. Large swathes of sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East/North Africa remain severely under-researched; and the overwhelming majority of papers focus on rural and agricultural issues rather than cities. This analysis offers tangible evidence to highlight where geographical and thematic gaps exist in our research on adaptation in the global South.

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“…Afriyie et al, 2018), whilst a minority focus expressly on women (e.g. Caretta, 2014). Other papers look at gendered perceptions of performance of adaptation projects (e.g.…”

Section: Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

The evolution of empirical adaptation research in the global South from 2010 to 2020

Vincent

Cundill

2021

Climate and Development

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“…Apart from contributing to sustainable livelihoods through the provision of credit, pooling of labour and other assets to more effectively confront the multiple challenges of soil degradation, water stress, poor market integration and disease burdens, women, through the collectives, were able to invest in sustainable innovations like rain water harvesting and agroforestry. Specific benefits in terms of well-being and intra-household bargaining were noted as a result of group training to women in agroforestry and business administration (Caretta, 2014). The gains made were not just material, but also personal and relational -strengthening skills and dignity on the one hand, and gaining voice within groups and networks on the other.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

Rao

Lawson

Raditloaneng

et al. 2017

Climate and Development

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Emerging and on-going research indicates that vulnerabilities to impacts of climate change are gendered. Still, policy approaches aimed at strengthening local communities' adaptive capacity largely fail to recognize the gendered nature of everyday realities and experiences. This paper interrogates some of the emerging evidence in selected semi-arid countries of Africa and Asia from a gender perspective, using water scarcity as an illustrative example. It emphasizes the importance of moving beyond the counting of numbers of men and women to unpacking relations of power, of inclusion and exclusion in decision-making, and challenging cultural beliefs that have denied equal opportunities and rights to differently positioned people, especially those at the bottom of economic and social hierarchies. Such an approach would make policy and practice more relevant to people's differentiated needs and responses.

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“…They can also help generate social capital and networks, providing complementary benefits (Brown & Sonwa, 2015;Caretta, 2014;GGLN, 2014). How financial services are designed has a significant influence on the extent to which that potential can be reached, and there are numerous examples of microfinance organisations failing, either in part or in full, to achieve their stated objectives (see, for example, Carter, de Janvry, Sadoulet, &Sarris, 2015, andYaro et al, 2015).…”

Section: Financial Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Can Local Governance Systems Strengthen Community Resilience? A Social-Ecological Systems Approach

Carabine

Wilkinson

2016

PaG

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At their core, donor-funded climate and disaster resilience programmes provide goods and services to help build assets and minimise the impact of shocks and stresses on people's lives and livelihoods. Little is known, however, about the way local risk governance systems and the broader institutional arrangements, in which they are embedded, mediate people's access to these services and therefore lead to improved resilience. Drawing on Social-Ecological Systems theory, we explore those characteristics of risk governance systems believed to be more favourable for building resilience at the community level in different developing country contexts. These include: diversity; polycentricism and connectivity; decentralisation and flexibility; participation and community engagement; and, learning and innovation. This review paper proposes a conceptual framework and assesses the evidence linking risk governance and access to the services needed to build resilient outcomes, drawing particularly on evidence from the Sahel and Horn of Africa. In doing so, we can start to understand where the entry points might be for strengthening resilience and the conditions needed for community-level initiatives to be brought to scale from the bottom up.

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“Credit plus” microcredit schemes: a key to women's adaptive capacity

Cited by 26 publications

References 26 publications

The evolution of empirical adaptation research in the global South from 2010 to 2020

The evolution of empirical adaptation research in the global South from 2010 to 2020

Gendered vulnerabilities to climate change: insights from the semi-arid regions of Africa and Asia

How Can Local Governance Systems Strengthen Community Resilience? A Social-Ecological Systems Approach

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