Abstract
This report provides a descriptive overview of the quantitative baseline data collected in January and February 2022 for a research project evaluating a complex social intervention to reduce and redistribute women’s unpaid care work (UCW) in Rwanda using homegrown solutions. The intervention aims to reduce and redistribute UCW undertaken by women in Rwanda's rural areas, thereby improving their quality of life and increasing their empowerment. The findings discussed in this report are from a survey of intervention and control households and 7-day time diaries completed by husbands and wives in each household, with some illustrative material from simultaneous qualitative research. The research design for the project is a cluster trial informed by critical realism (CRCT) , combining quantitative and qualitative research methods to explain what works for whom under what circumstances. The intention is not just to identify the changes that can be attributed to the intervention but to develop explanatory theories of why the changes took place (Danermark et al., 2019; Porter et al., 2017; Porter and O’Halloran, 2012). The purpose of a Working Paper at this stage of the project is mostly to describe the lives and subordination of rural women as revealed by the baseline survey and, in the process, to identify any differences between control and intervention groups which have occurred by chance and will need to be controlled statistically in the analysis of the final results.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Aberdeen |
| Publisher | Centre for Global Development |
| Number of pages | 24 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | Working Paper |
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| Publisher | Centre for Global Development |
| No. | 5 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2399-4975 |
Bibliographical note
We would like to acknowledge the contribution to the research in this report of the research assistants who collected the quantitative data and created the quantitative data sets. We would also like to acknowledge the participants in the research who gave freely of their time to answer our questions. Reseaux des Femmes are our implementation partner, and they listed the households in the control and the implementation arms for participation in the research.The research project, Assessing the Impact and Scalability of Participatory Homegrown Programs on Reducing and Redistributing Unpaid Care Work among Women in Rwanda: A Case of Reseaux des Femmes' Unpaid Care Work Project in Rwanda, is funded by the International Development Research Centre, Canada.
The research project was led by the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research – Rwanda (IPAR) with Dr Dickson Malunda as a co-investigator.
The report's content is the work of the authors. It cannot be taken to represent the views of the International Development Research Centre, the Board of Directors of the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research -Rwanda or the Court of the University of Aberdeen.