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SUBMITTER: Gram L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6540743 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gram Lu L Morrison Joanna J Saville Naomi N Yadav Shyam Sundar SS Shrestha Bhim B Manandhar Dharma D Costello Anthony A Skordis-Worrall Jolene J
The journal of development studies 20180320 8
Participatory learning and action women's groups (PLA) have proven effective in reducing neonatal mortality in rural, high-mortality settings, but their impacts on women's agency in the household remain unknown. Cash transfer programmes have also long targeted female beneficiaries in the belief that this empowers women. Drawing on data from 1309 pregnant women in a four-arm cluster-randomised controlled trial in Nepal, we found little evidence for an impact of PLA alone or combined with uncondit ...[more]