TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Impacts of Community-Based Legal Aid on Intrahousehold Gender Relations in Tanzania
AU - Mueller, Valerie
AU - Peterman, Amber
AU - Billings, Lucy
AU - Wineman, Ayala
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Economic Development Initiative Ltd. for data collection, to Mamas’ Hope Organization for Legal Assistance (MHOLA) for excellent program implementation, and to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the CGIAR-USAID Linkage Fund and an anonymous donor for funding the evaluation. We thank Julia Behrman, Joaquim De Weerdt, Hosaena Ghebru Hagos, Kees
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Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - Community-based legal aid (CBLA) has been promoted as a promising intervention to reach rural marginalized populations who face barriers to accessing formal legal services and is increasingly implemented with the specific goal of protecting women's rights. This study evaluates the impact of a twelve-month CBLA program in northwestern Tanzania on intrahousehold gender relations using a clustered-randomized control trial across 139 villages. Among 1,219 women, the study finds those in treatment villages are more likely to refer others to paralegals for a variety of domestic issues; however, there are no measureable impacts on aggregate knowledge of marital law, intrahousehold decision making, or reported experience of twelve-month intimate partner violence. These overall results are robust to a number of other sensitivity analyses, including accounting for spillovers, attrition bounds, and modeling choices. While these results indicate limited potential for intrahousehold and gender-progressive change, program duration and intensity likely affected measurable positive impacts.
AB - Community-based legal aid (CBLA) has been promoted as a promising intervention to reach rural marginalized populations who face barriers to accessing formal legal services and is increasingly implemented with the specific goal of protecting women's rights. This study evaluates the impact of a twelve-month CBLA program in northwestern Tanzania on intrahousehold gender relations using a clustered-randomized control trial across 139 villages. Among 1,219 women, the study finds those in treatment villages are more likely to refer others to paralegals for a variety of domestic issues; however, there are no measureable impacts on aggregate knowledge of marital law, intrahousehold decision making, or reported experience of twelve-month intimate partner violence. These overall results are robust to a number of other sensitivity analyses, including accounting for spillovers, attrition bounds, and modeling choices. While these results indicate limited potential for intrahousehold and gender-progressive change, program duration and intensity likely affected measurable positive impacts.
KW - Legal aid
KW - Tanzania
KW - gender
KW - intimate partner violence
KW - intrahousehold decision making
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U2 - 10.1080/13545701.2018.1554906
DO - 10.1080/13545701.2018.1554906
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059907123
SN - 1354-5701
VL - 25
SP - 116
EP - 145
JO - Feminist Economics
JF - Feminist Economics
IS - 2
ER -