Initiating women empowerment and youth development through involvement in non-formal education in three selected parishes: An action research on poverty alleviation

• Main Authors: Edralin, Divina M., Tibon, Maria Victoria P., Tugas, Florenz C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Poverty > Philippines—Prevention; Non-formal education > Philippines; Church work with the poor—Catholic Church; Women in development > Philippines; Youth in development > Philippines; Civic and Community Engagement; Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1347
• Institution: De La Salle University

This article elaborates on an action research undertaken by three researchers from a business school of a leading university in the Philippines on the contribution of non-formal education programs in poverty alleviation, aimed to initiate women empowerment and youth development among selected women and youth in the parishes they belong to. Non-formal education programs such as home-based livelihood program, parenting for women, leadership, character building, values clarification, and priority setting for women and youth were administered as a way to reduce the selected parishioners’ vulnerabilities arising from poverty. Using outcome mapping as a project cycle management tool, changed behaviours, attitudes, and values were identified not as final indicators but as an indicator of progress in empowerment and development to which the non-formal education programs contribute. © 2015 by De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines.