Title: Evaluating efficacy of women's empowerment programmes: an empirical study of participants perspectives in Rajasthan

Authors: Chandan Medatwal

Addresses: University of Kota, Rajasthan, India; Indian Council of Social Science and Research (ICSSR), India

Abstract: The Government of India (GOI) is introducing schemes persistently to meet the basic objective of poverty reduction and for innovations for bringing about changes in desirable directions. This research concentrates on evaluating womens' empowerment programmes run by Department of Women and Child Development (WCD) in view to societal development. The main focus of the paper is to evaluate efficacy of programmes through participants' perspectives. The sample for the study was taken from two schemes - Swavalamban Scheme and Priyadarshani Adarsh SHG Scheme. The results demonstrated that on an average, there was a significant increase in women empowerment through government run schemes.

Keywords: programme efficacy; women empowerment; empowerment programmes; evaluation; female empowerment; India; poverty reduction; participant perspectives; government schemes.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGSDS.2015.067924

International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies, 2015 Vol.1 No.1, pp.49 - 62

Received: 20 May 2013
Accepted: 14 Jul 2014
Published online: 31 Mar 2015 *

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