Evaluating efficacy of women's empowerment programmes: an empirical study of participants perspectives in Rajasthan
by Chandan Medatwal
International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies (IJGSDS), Vol. 1, No. 1, 2015

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.

Online publication date: Tue, 31-Mar-2015

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