Initiating Women Empowerment and Youth Development through Involvement in Non- Formal Education in Three Selected Parishes: An Action Research on Poverty Alleviation

Authors

Divina M. Edralin, De La Salle University, Manila, PhilippinesFollow
Maria Victoria P. Tibon, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Florenz C. Tugas, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines

JEL Classification System

O15, O17, J13, J32

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Edralin, Divina M.; Tibon, Maria Victoria P.; and Tugas, Florenz C. (2015) "Initiating Women Empowerment and Youth Development through Involvement in Non- Formal Education in Three Selected Parishes: An Action Research on Poverty Alleviation," DLSU Business & Economics Review: Vol. 24: No. 2, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59588/2243-786X.1285
Available at: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/ber/vol24/iss2/8