00000ctmaa22000004a 4500 UP-99796217607439298 Buklod 20230503092542.0 m |o d | ta 080210s xx d r |||| u| (iLib)UPD-00000473120 DSWCD eng DMLUC LG 995 2007 C58 B85 Bulayungan, Odelia B. Translating women energies into empowering revelations a participatory evaluative case study on San Benito SIPAG-KO's community-based child care program and CBS-Marihatag's capability-building program Odelia B. Bulayungan. 2007. 238 leaves "May 2007." Thesis (MCD)--University of the Philippines. The Missionary Benedictine Sisters (MBS) of the Philippines have always envisioned a more responsive, enabling and integral evangelization throughout its century of serving the poor. Through its Socio-Pastoral Apostolate (SPA) Centers around the country, the congregation has engaged in different welfare and pastoral programs and services among the most marginalized and underserved particularly women. MAKAPAWA (Tacloban, Leyte), San Benito SIPAG-KO (Legazpi, Albay) and CBS-Marihatag (Marihatag, Surigao del Sur) are among the SPA Centers that have worked in empowering women partners through their community-based programs and services. For many years, they have facilitated interventions that aimed to involve women in analyzing situations, determining goals, planning actions, implementing activities, and deciding future directions. How they contributed to empowerment among women partners and to what extent the women partners have been empowered are the main focus of this participatory evaluative research. This case study¹, which focuses on San Benito SIPAG-KO and CBS-Marihatag and their women partners, was guided by the main problem: How did SPA community-based interventions empower the women in its partner communities? What were the processes involved and to what extent did the processes empower women? In relation to the main problem, the following specific questions were probed further: 1. What were the life-giving and transcreating changes perceived and experienced by the women from participating in SPA community-based interventions? 2. How did organizing as an SPA intervention facilitate or hinder these changes? 3. How can the SPA community-based programs and services be improved to be more responsive to women's needs and interests? Employing participatory tools, the study involved women research partners² who were provided with basic participatory research training by student researchers. The methodology included three stages - preparatory phase, data gathering and collation phase, and analysis and recommendation phase. The research explored the Centers' program processes through its rules, resources, people, power and activities (Kabeer, 1994), and how these facilitated and hindered women's empowerment. It assessed the programs' timeliness, relevance, appropriateness and sustainability in addressing women's needs and interests. It also examined the extent of women's empowerment in terms of welfare, access, conscientization, mobilization and control dimensions (Longwe, 2001), as well as the forms of power such as power from within, power with and power to (Rowlands, 1997) that are discovered and enhanced by the women from participating in the program. Power for was later added by the student researchers to look at women's other-orientedness in transforming the society. All of these were answered through a triangulation of data gathering methods: key informant interview, focus group discussions and direct observation. Data analysis is comprised of three parts. The first part provided a synthesis of the data presented while the second discussed the role and contribution of the SPA Centers in organizing. The second part has six sub-themes: process of organizing with the women partners, precision on the factors that facilitate and hinder women's participation, enabling processes in the women's organizing experience, contributions of the SPA Centers' organizing to women's life-giving and transcreating changes, contributions of other groups to these changes, and challenges to organizing as facilitated by the SPA Centers. The last part discussed the process of women's empowerment through five sub-topics: empowerment form the women's point of view, power as experienced by the women, on women's life-giving and transcreating changes, women's spirituality, and the Womyn's Empowerment Chakra. Synthesizing the empowerment processes of the SPA women partners is the Womyn's Empowerment Chakra. Based on the experiences of the women, this framework affirms that they carry deep desires for justice, well-being and peace not only for their families but for their communities as well. They possess inherent power or strength that when unleashed can contribute to justice-, well-being- and peace-seeking social transformation. Their participation in the SPA program as well as involvement with other organizations has provided them opportunities to discover, harness and enhance these powers (power from within, power with, power to and power for) to create changes in their lives and in their communities. Empowerment has been actualized in their and in their communities. Empowerment has been actualized in their lives through increased welfare, access, conscientization, mobilization and control. These life-giving (discovering and replenishing one's power) and transcreating (harnessing one's power to transform) changes have either been facilitated or hindered through locations of power in the SPA program as rules, resources, people, power and activities. The timeliness, appropriateness, relevance and sustainability of interventions in the women's organizing process have also influences the changes. However, there are other factors in the broader socio-political-economic-cultural-environmental context that have been contributory. In the main, the partnership between the women and the SPA Centers has been fertile ground because in their journey together, they have become kindred spirits on the same mission to realize Integral Transformation. The women's recommendations to enhance the programs are infused in the final chapter of the study. Implications to Community Development practice are likewise cited as the study's contribution on how organizing can facilitate life-giving and transcreating changes among women in particular Women Philippines. Welfare recipients Philippines. Child care services Philippines. Child care workers Philippines. San Benito SIPAG-KO Community-Based Child Care Program. Thesi Thesi UPD DARCHIVES LG 995 2007 C58 B85 UPD DSWCD LG 995 2007 C58 B85 UPD DSWCD LG 995 2007 C58 B85 Abstract https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iYwKD7g2CkCEH6ClZ2NtOCzgjMLRCxC6/view application/pdf 1.77 Mb Open Access 0 Thesis