2015
DOI: 10.4073/csr.2015.19
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Economic Self‐Help group Programs for Improving Women's Empowerment: A Systematic Review

Abstract: The Campbell Collaboration was founded on the principle that systematic reviews on the effects of interventions will inform and help improve policy and services. Campbell offers editorial and methodological support to review authors throughout the process of producing a systematic review. A number of Campbell's editors, librarians, methodologists and external peer reviewers contribute. Plain language summaryInterventions to reduce homelessness and improve housing stability are effectiveThere are large numbers… Show more

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“…Others cover specific interventions, such as microcredit (e.g., Vaessen et al, 2014), formal banking services (Pande, Cole, Sivasankaran, Bastian, & Wendel, 2012), microenterprise (e.g., Grimm & Paffhausen, 2015), microsavings and microleasing and microinsurance (Cole, Bastian, Vyas, Wendel, & Stein, 2012). Some systematic reviews focus on particular populations, such as Sub-Saharan African recipients (e.g., Stewart, van Rooyen, Dickson, Majoro, & de Wet, 2010), particular methods of providing financial services, such as SHGs (e.g., Brody et al, 2015) or particular outcomes, such as health (e.g., Leatherman, Metcalfe, Geissler, & Dunford, 2012) or empowerment (Brody et al, 2015;Vaessen et al, 2014). The systematic reviews also differ by focus, many covering effectiveness evidence, but others incorporating participant views (e.g., Brody et al, 2015;Peters, Lockwood, Munn, Moola, & Mishra, 2016) and barriers or enablers of uptake and effectiveness (e.g., Panda et al, 2016) including innovations in information and communications technology (e.g., Gurman, Rubin, & Roess, 2012;Jennings & Gagliardi, 2013;Lee et al, 2016;Sondaal et al, 2015).…”
Section: Why It Is Important To Do the Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Others cover specific interventions, such as microcredit (e.g., Vaessen et al, 2014), formal banking services (Pande, Cole, Sivasankaran, Bastian, & Wendel, 2012), microenterprise (e.g., Grimm & Paffhausen, 2015), microsavings and microleasing and microinsurance (Cole, Bastian, Vyas, Wendel, & Stein, 2012). Some systematic reviews focus on particular populations, such as Sub-Saharan African recipients (e.g., Stewart, van Rooyen, Dickson, Majoro, & de Wet, 2010), particular methods of providing financial services, such as SHGs (e.g., Brody et al, 2015) or particular outcomes, such as health (e.g., Leatherman, Metcalfe, Geissler, & Dunford, 2012) or empowerment (Brody et al, 2015;Vaessen et al, 2014). The systematic reviews also differ by focus, many covering effectiveness evidence, but others incorporating participant views (e.g., Brody et al, 2015;Peters, Lockwood, Munn, Moola, & Mishra, 2016) and barriers or enablers of uptake and effectiveness (e.g., Panda et al, 2016) including innovations in information and communications technology (e.g., Gurman, Rubin, & Roess, 2012;Jennings & Gagliardi, 2013;Lee et al, 2016;Sondaal et al, 2015).…”
Section: Why It Is Important To Do the Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Two meta-studies, both including a meta-analysis, explicitly focused on women's empowerment (Brody et al, 2015;Vaessen et al, 2014). Two meta-studies, both including a meta-analysis, explicitly focused on women's empowerment (Brody et al, 2015;Vaessen et al, 2014).…”
Section: Gender Outcomesmentioning
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“…As stated above, empowerment can have political, social, economic, and psychological components (Brody et al, 2013 ). No story of empowerment is complete if it is found lacking in any of these components.…”
Section: Challenges and Conclusionmentioning
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“…SHGs thus serve an important function that initiate a cycle that manifests itself in women fi nding confi dence to voice their opinion in critical decisions involving themselves and their children. Brody, Dworkin, Dunbar, Murthy, and Pascoe ( 2013 ) defi ned SHGs "as mutual aid or support groups, as those groups that involve people who provide support for each other and/or are created with the underlying assumption that when individuals join together to take action towards overcoming obstacles and attaining social change, individual, and/or collective empowerment can result. "…”
Section: Self-help Groups (Shgs)mentioning
confidence: 99%
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