Microfinance and feminist capacity development: a case of rural women in the Central Andes of Peru
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study analyzes rural women and capacity development from a constructivist feminist standpoint theory of knowledge that privileges women's voices. The research study was carried out in the Central Andes of Peru with clients of four microfinance institutions in the Ayacucho Region and the Mantaro Valley that are operating in areas where agriculture, livestock and informal commerce are the principal activities. Participatory qualitative methodology was used to gain their insights and reflections employed as self-assessments to examine women's capacities for rediscovering the knowledge of the 'self' and 'others' in the relational and collective dimension. This thesis presents insights into a unique approach to women's power relations and roles to reinforce the sense of the 'self' and relationships using a rich narrative and interpretative approach based on feminist research and concepts of capacity development. Findings include the pathway to gain control over their bodies, their own lives and exercise their agent role to negotiate and change relations in order to achieve social transformation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".