Role of inclusive market systems development in promoting resilience: evidence from World Vision projects

Tumusiime, Emmanuel; Zuniga, Martha Cruz; Bass, Chloe

doi:10.3362/1755-1986.21-00037

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“…This is in line with other literature that also acknowledges the importance of these forms of external support alongside psychosocial support (e.g. Haushofer, Mudida and Shapiro 2020;Samuels and Stavropoulou 2016;Tumusiime et al 2022). In the Zambian context, this would mean that participants should be social cash transfer recipients, Food Security Pack Programme recipients, and/or benefit from savings and credit groups (Diwakar and Bwalya 2021).…”

Section: Factors Associated With Internal Empowerment At the Endlinesupporting

confidence: 92%

“…The EWV intervention in the study areas was implemented as part of the THRIVE programme, which seeks to promote self-actions rather than resource transfer as the primary strategy to achieve economic and social empowerment (Tumusiime, Zuniga and Bass 2022). The THRIVE programme's basic activities and outcomes fall into four groups: (1) mindset and behaviour change support using EWV;…”

Section: Study Programme and Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Empowered Worldviews: Assessing the Persistence of Psychosocial Intervention Effects in Zambia

Diwakar,

Tumusiime,

Eichsteller

et al. 2024

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Evidence on the persistence of psychosocial outcomes of interventions over the medium and long term, and in the face of shocks and stressors, is limited. We examined the extent to which empowerment associated with a psychosocial, faith-based approach, Empowered Worldview (EWV) persisted 3–5 years post-delivery of the intervention in Zambia among smallholder farmers. The EWV intervention in Zambia was delivered as part of THRIVE, an integrated livelihoods programme. We followed a previous study to disaggregate individual-level empowerment associated with EWV into three domains: internal (which relates to ‘power within’), localised (typically participation and access), and structural (e.g. institutional, environmental, and social structures). To explore the persistence of EWV effects on empowerment, we used mixed methods and longitudinal data collected in 2020 and 2023, which were the midline and endline points of the THRIVE programme. Empirically, we used descriptive and regression analysis to compare internal and localised empowerment levels between the survey rounds (2020 and 2023) across study groups – including groups that received EWV before and after 2020 – and to the control group. We also re- interviewed a subset of EWV participants interviewed in 2020 to understand how empowerment has changed at the individual level over time . The results show levels of internal empowerment associated with the EWV intervention persisted between the midline and endline surveys, especially when combined with THRIVE livelihood interventions. At the midline, 80.0 per cent of THRIVE with EWV participants were empowered, compared to 82.3 per cent at the endline. In contrast, 72.6 per cent and 73.07 per cent of the control sample participants were empowered at the midline and the endline, respectively. Quantitative results further show that localised empowerment significantly improved between survey rounds among participants who received EWV training and is positively associated with internal empowerment, consistent with literature that suggests localised enablers (supporting social environments) are crucial to sustaining internal empowerment. The qualitative data shows that persistent internal and localised empowerment was observed mostly among households in the non- poor wellbeing category, suggesting that additional interventions are needed to reach the poorest participants. Results also show internal and localised empowerment are positively associated with indicators of household resilience. We conclude the paper with recommendations for programming.

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Section: Factors Associated With Internal Empowerment At the Endlinesupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Study Programme and Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

Empowered Worldviews: Assessing the Persistence of Psychosocial Intervention Effects in Zambia

Diwakar,

Tumusiime,

Eichsteller

et al. 2024

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“…The EWV intervention was delivered as part of World Vision's THRIVE programme. Besides EWV, the THRIVE programme promoted saving groups, provided business skills trainings, market access linkages and access to appropriate microfinance services or credit (Tumusiime et al, 2022). THRIVE was implemented in four Area Programmes (APs) across four districts in Zambia: Mpika AP in Mpika district, Buyantanshi AP in Luwingu district, Mwamba AP in Kasama district (northern Zambia), and Katete and Kawaza APs in Katete district (eastern Zambia).…”

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confidence: 99%

A behavioural livelihoods approach to address psychosocial constraints to empowerment

et al. 2023

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Little is known about psychosocial or ‘internal’ behaviours that can perpetuate chronic poverty and how to alleviate them in development programmes. This paper presents a conceptual and evaluation framework examining the relationship between a person's psychosocial behaviours, empowerment and economic wellbeing. The framework shows empowerment is enabled or limited by internal behaviours – including one's identity, aspiration, hope and confidence. We tested the framework on a behaviour change intervention among 1508 extremely poor smallholder farmers in Zambia. The intervention was a six‐session curriculum for promoting positive mindsets using faith‐based messages. We used concurrent mixed methods to examine changes and differences in levels of empowerment for individuals exposed to the intervention and those not. We found significant correlations between participation in the intervention and improvements in participants' internal attitudes and overall empowerment. The framework and mixed methods evaluation offer insights into how to design programmes to address internal constraints to empowerment.

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Role of inclusive market systems development in promoting resilience: evidence from World Vision projects

Cited by 2 publications

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Empowered Worldviews: Assessing the Persistence of Psychosocial Intervention Effects in Zambia

Empowered Worldviews: Assessing the Persistence of Psychosocial Intervention Effects in Zambia

A behavioural livelihoods approach to address psychosocial constraints to empowerment

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