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South
& South East Asia - Living in the Background: Home-Based Women Workers and
Poverty Persistence
Authors:
Doane,D. L.
Produced by: Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK (2007)
This paper examines the relationship between home-based work and persistent
poverty in certain parts of South and South East Asia. The author argues that
an expanded conception of social protection is needed if poverty prevention
initiatives are to be effective in the case of home-based women workers. Given
the diversity of conditions and needs of different groups of home-based
workers, the approach to social protection needs to be multilayered, including:
The paper also stresses the importantance of home-based women workers becoming organised. Home-based and other informal workers' organisations provide information to, and a voice for, their members. Women who have no access to resources or information are unlikely to be able to negotiate in order to protect themselves and earn sustainable livelihoods for their families, and they are unlikely to be able to achieve any sense of security. Organising into groups, allows the women to become visible, and become a force that can help counter the sources of vulnerability in their lives.
Available online at: http://www.eldis.org/cf/rdr/?doc=34709
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