Mapping of micro credit integration experiences with training on gender or domestic violence
| Areas | : | Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes |
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| Researcher/s in charge | : | Lorena Alcazar |
| Execution time | : | November 2012 |
Presentation
The goals of this consulting work are: i) to perform the mapping of micro credit integration experiences with training on gender and/or domestic violence in Peru, to identify and analyze promising methodologies, good practices and lessons learned and ii) to identify IMG and NGOs that are willing to and have the best institutional, strategic and operational conditions to participate in the development of a model for domestic violence prevention through micro finances, based on best practices in the region and lessons learned from the IMAGE model and which will be subject to an experimental impact assessment.
The IMAGE model consists in an Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE) in South Africa that demonstrated that microfinance integrated with gender training may reduce couples violence, with reduction results of around 55% of physical women among participating women in the program. These findings could be relevant for ALC, which has a well-developed microfinance sector, which achieved coverage of 15 million clients in the region in 2011. It is estimated that women are majority among such clients: in 2009, women represented 61.9% of active borrowers of the microfinance institutions. This makes the MFIs a sustainable and large scope way for the development of domestic violence prevention actions.
