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Women’s Empowerment Through Inner Spaces Outer Faces Initiatives, Suniti NeogyCARE’s Inner Spaces Outer Faces Initiative (was designed to share a simple lesson: Every person has both an ‘internal space’ and an ‘outer face’. Their internal space includes their perceptions of issues such as gender, sexuality, identity, and family. Their outer face represents the way they communicate ideas with others; hence we need to work on both for long-term benefits in a sexual and reproductive health programming. While ISOFI aimed to study the impact of empowerment model on health outcomes, Join My Village aimed to scale up the learnings, addressing the challenges, innovating all the way to empower women and girls.
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Inner Spaces Outer Faces Initiatives
Womens Empowerment throughInner Spaces Outer Faces Initiatives
Suniti Neogy: India
ISOFI
1Presentation ObjectivesInner Spaces Outer Faces Initiatives: What does it mean for empowerment of women?Study design and objectivesIntervention designOutcomesChallenges/Opportunities
2BackgroundInner Spaces and the Outer Faces:
What does this mean for a sexual health programming?
Their internal space includes their perceptions of issues such as gender, sexuality, identity and family. Their outer face represents the way they communicate ideas with others.3Factors influencing maternal healthMaternal and neonatal Health factors:Ante Natal CareNew born CareImmediate and exclusive breast feedingPost natal careFamily planningWomens Empowerment factors:Womens decision makingMobility for womenWomens access to resourcesGendered division of laborCouple communicationGender based violenceSon preference
4CAREs Womens Empowerment FrameworkAGENCYHer own aspirations and capabilitiesSTRUCTUREThe environment that surrounds and conditions her choices RELATIONSThe power relations through which she negotiates her path
5Intervention designTransform Staff CapacityReflect with the CommunityPlan for actionImplement PlansEvaluate
Overview of interventionSupport womens empowermentOne to one counseling through Home VisitsCouple CounselingActivate mothers committees and use themas agents of change Create Enabling EnvironmentActivate Village Health and Sanitation Committee (VHSC) members Improve Couple communicationSensitize the larger communitythrough BCC activity
7Study descriptionData collected via structured interview1331 completed/ analyzed using bivariate and multivariate analysisQualitative interviews with 10 men, 13 women and 7 health care workers at end-lineDifference in Difference analysis: BCC villages and Non BCC villages in case district at the endline
A joint operations research project by CARE and International Center for Research on Women(ICRW)Investigated outcome of systematic integration of gender and sexuality Case/Control, Pre/post intervention study used a quantitative survey among randomly selected married women Results: Womens mobility
9Results: Sexuality
Results: Couple communication
11Lessons Learnt: Scale up through Join My VillageSystematically support gender transformation; agency structures relationMore structured ways to work with menModules for men and womens groupsRegular reflective sessions with the service providers and staffMock sessions with staff for implementation of tools Work with adolescent girls on girls empowerment
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