Social networks, empowerment, and wellbeing among Syrian refugee and Jordanian women: Implications for development and social inclusion

Eggerman, Jannik J.; Dajani, Rana; Kumar, Praveen; Chui, Susannah; Qtaishat, Lina; El Kharouf, Amal; Panter-Brick, Catherine

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106324

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“…Masyarakat harus menyadari bahwa para perempuan juga memiliki kesempatan yang sama dengan laki-laki untuk meningkatkan keterampilan dan peluang karir. Perempuan harus memiliki peluang yang sama dengan laki-laki dalam akses terhadap sumber ekonomi (Eggerman et al, 2023). Pemberdayaan perempuan merupakan langkah konkret untuk merespons persoalan ketidaksetaraan gender.…”

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Home Industry sebagai Sarana Pemberdayaan Perempuan di Pulau Sabang

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Tjoetra

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan home industry sebagai sarana pemberdayaan perempuan untuk mencapai kesetaraan gender dan kesejahteraan ekonomi perempuan serta untuk menemukan titik temu antara kebudayaan lokal dan pemberdayaan perempuan serta mengidentifikasi bentuk dukungan pemerintah. Studi ini didukung dengan metode kualitatif dekstriptif dengan teknik pengumpulan data melalui observasi dan wawancara mendalam. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa home industry tersebut sangat sejalan dengan upaya pemberdayaan perempuan untuk meningkatkan akses terhadap sumber ekonomi dan meminimalisir ketidaksetaraan gender. Para pekerja perempuan yang terlibat dalam praktik home industry tersebut telah berkontribusi dalam pemenuhan kebutuhan hidup keluarga. Pemberdayaan perempuan melalui rumah produksi kue AG didukung dengan kebudayaan lokal yang dapat menunjukkan toleransi antar umat beragama. Meskipun pemilik kue AG beragama nasrani, proses produksi menggunakan cara dan bahan yang tidak bertentangan nilai-nilai keislaman warga Sabang. Pemberian izin produksi kue AG merupakan salah satu bentuk dukungan pemerintah yang memberikan perlindungan secara hukum terhadap pemberdayaan perempuan. Penelitian ini perlu dialnjutkan dengan penelitian yang mampu mengintegrasikan home industry, pemberdayaan perempuan, dan ekowisata agar menjadi kajian yang holistik.

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Home Industry sebagai Sarana Pemberdayaan Perempuan di Pulau Sabang

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“…We aimed to understand how people think about social ties, empowerment, and wellbeing, and why urban poor women take leadership roles in their communities. We described the size and characteristics of social networks for a cohort of Syrian and Jordanian women, then analyzed how they mattered for empowerment and wellbeing (Eggerman et al, 2023). Strikingly, levels of psychological empowerment decreased as networks were increasingly kin-based -family ties tended to restrict women's social interactions to a homogeneous in-group.…”

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Pathways to resilience and pathways to flourishing: Examining the added-value of multisystem research and intervention in contexts of war and forced displacement

Panter-Brick

2023

Dev Psychopathol

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This paper examines the added-value that multisystem approaches bring to research and intervention in contexts of war and forced displacement. I highlight what is useful and truly innovative about systems-level work, aware that providing data-related evidence is only part of the story when connecting research to policy and practice. I discuss four types of added-value: these are conceptual, instrumental, capacity-building, and connectivity impacts that, respectively, aim to change current knowledge, improve implementation, build research skills, and strengthen network connectivity. Specifically, systems-based research can help transform the key frames of humanitarian work, fostering the more integrated and distributive models of professional assistance known as resilience and network humanitarianism. I argue that systems-level approaches on resilience and flourishing in war-affected and refugee populations help to articulate new mindsets, methodologies, partnerships, and ways of working relevant for humanitarian research, policy and practice. I focus attention on interdisciplinary, interventionist, prospective, transgenerational, and network-building initiatives. My specific examples cover the family context of mental health and trauma memory in Afghanistan, as well as program evaluation with Syrian refugees in Jordan, connecting stress biology to human experience, and social networks to psychological empowerment. The paper suggests future directions to support more effective and impactful systems-level work in protracted humanitarian crises.

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“…In 2021, we initiated an investigation of the social networks of Syrian and Jordanian women and examined how volunteering work diversified their networks outside the home, promoting feelings of psychological empowerment and social inclusion ( Eggerman et al, 2023 ). In 2022, we used qualitative work, panel data, and a randomized controlled trial to evaluate whether volunteering activity impacted outcomes such as psychological wellbeing, empowerment, and life satisfaction for Syrian refugee women ( Panter-Brick et al, 2024 ).…”

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Volunteer programs, empowerment, and life satisfaction in Jordan: mapping local knowledge and systems change to inform public policy and science diplomacy

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Qtaishat,

Eggerman

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IntroductionVolunteering in the community is thought to provide unique benefits to people who experience limited engagement in society. In the global South, volunteer programs are often framed as empowering women and benefiting the poor, without empirical evidence or systematic investigation of what this means from a local perspective. For this reason, it is critical to represent stakeholder knowledge, understand how change happens systemically, and reduce cultural bias in scientific inquiry and public policy. As such, efforts to respect diverse narratives and problem-solving approaches are key to science diplomacy – they help us understand cultural relevance, program efficacy, and for whom a program is considered transformative.Methods and resultsThis study shows how Syrian refugee and Jordanian women, living in resource-poor families, articulated (i) concepts of empowerment and life satisfaction and (ii) the benefits of engaging in community-based volunteering programs. Through engaging in a participatory methodology known as Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping, women generated visual representations of these constructs and cause-and-effect reasoning. They identified several dimensions of empowerment (e.g., cultural, financial, and psychological empowerment) and several meanings of life satisfaction (e.g. adaptation, acceptance, and contentment). They also mapped connections between variables, identifying those that might catalyze change. We were specifically interested in evaluating understandings of We Love Reading, a program that trains volunteers to become changemakers in their local community. In simulations, we modelled how employment, education, money, and volunteering would drive system change, with notable results on cultural empowerment.DiscussionThrough visual maps and scenarios of change, the study demonstrates a participatory approach to localizing knowledge and evaluating programs. This is key to improving scientific enquiry and public policy.

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Social networks, empowerment, and wellbeing among Syrian refugee and Jordanian women: Implications for development and social inclusion

Cited by 9 publications

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Home Industry sebagai Sarana Pemberdayaan Perempuan di Pulau Sabang

Home Industry sebagai Sarana Pemberdayaan Perempuan di Pulau Sabang

Pathways to resilience and pathways to flourishing: Examining the added-value of multisystem research and intervention in contexts of war and forced displacement

Volunteer programs, empowerment, and life satisfaction in Jordan: mapping local knowledge and systems change to inform public policy and science diplomacy

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