Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline

As an NGO, BRAC adopts a holistic development approach centred on the Village Organization (VO), a group of female microfinance clients. In order to upgrade the VO integrity and norms, BRAC’s Social Development (SD) Program (currently renewed as Community Empowerment Program or CEP) introduced the E...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون:	Qayum, Nayma, Samadder, Mrinmoy, Rahman, Rehnuma
التنسيق:	Working Paper
اللغة:	en_US
منشور في:	BRAC Research and Evaluation Division 2022
الموضوعات:	Development Education Empowerment Geography Microfinance Village
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:	http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15929

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spelling	10361-159292022-01-16T21:01:26Z Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline Qayum, Nayma Samadder, Mrinmoy Rahman, Rehnuma Development Education Empowerment Geography Microfinance Village As an NGO, BRAC adopts a holistic development approach centred on the Village Organization (VO), a group of female microfinance clients. In order to upgrade the VO integrity and norms, BRAC’s Social Development (SD) Program (currently renewed as Community Empowerment Program or CEP) introduced the Enhancing Social Capital (ESC) project in 2010. This study used social capital as an organizing framework to capture VO members’ group behaviour, and their current status along with program activities. The study compared the status of intervention VOs with comparison VOs. Data were derived from 728 VO meeting observations and 2445 semi-structured interviews of VO members. It found that geographical and infrastructural factors explained some differences between intervention and control groups. VO presidents performed better than the general VO members (GM). VO group solidarity, individual trust, the VO’s client-friendliness, and years of education influenced the extent to which VO members adhered to good VO group norms. 2022-01-16T06:41:42Z 2022-01-16T06:41:42Z 2012 2012-04 Working Paper http://hdl.handle.net/10361/15929 en_US https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/publications/group-norms-and-the-brac-village-organization-enhancing-social-capital-baseline/ application/pdf BRAC Research and Evaluation Division
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topic	Development Education Empowerment Geography Microfinance Village
spellingShingle	Development Education Empowerment Geography Microfinance Village Qayum, Nayma Samadder, Mrinmoy Rahman, Rehnuma Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline
description	As an NGO, BRAC adopts a holistic development approach centred on the Village Organization (VO), a group of female microfinance clients. In order to upgrade the VO integrity and norms, BRAC’s Social Development (SD) Program (currently renewed as Community Empowerment Program or CEP) introduced the Enhancing Social Capital (ESC) project in 2010. This study used social capital as an organizing framework to capture VO members’ group behaviour, and their current status along with program activities. The study compared the status of intervention VOs with comparison VOs. Data were derived from 728 VO meeting observations and 2445 semi-structured interviews of VO members. It found that geographical and infrastructural factors explained some differences between intervention and control groups. VO presidents performed better than the general VO members (GM). VO group solidarity, individual trust, the VO’s client-friendliness, and years of education influenced the extent to which VO members adhered to good VO group norms.
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author	Qayum, Nayma Samadder, Mrinmoy Rahman, Rehnuma
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title	Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline
title_short	Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline
title_full	Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline
title_fullStr	Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline
title_full_unstemmed	Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline
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Group norms and the Brac village organization—enhancing social capital baseline

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