Revisiting the Impact Evaluation of Women’s Empowerment: A MCDM-Based Evaluation Indicator Selection Framework Proposal

IF 2.8 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-01-31 DOI:10.1007/s11205-023-03302-7

Nihan Yıldırım, Fatma Köroğlu

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Women’s empowerment programs play a critical role in achieving the United Nations’ (UN’s) sustainable development goal of “Gender Equality”. However, non-profit organizations (NPOs) running women’s empowerment (WE) programs face challenges in monitoring, assessing, and evaluating the social impact (SI) and program performance due to the lack of solid guidelines. This study aims to analyze the impact and outcome evaluation indicators of WE programs by providing a quantitative tool. A multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model is proposed to identify and prioritize the performance indicators by utilizing Fuzzy TOPSIS (FTOPSIS) and Fuzzy AHP (FAHP) in a combined methodology. Results validated the identification and classification of the indicators by their importance and viability. In a qualitative study with NPOs working on WE in Turkey, social impact and outcome evaluation indicators are defined and ranked by criteria set in the proposed combined MCDM framework. The study aims to contribute to the theoretical frameworks and practices on social impact and outcome evaluation of women’s empowerment.

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重新审视妇女赋权的影响评估：基于 MCDM 的评价指标选择框架提案

妇女赋权计划在实现联合国（UN）可持续发展目标 "性别平等 "方面发挥着至关重要的作用。然而，由于缺乏可靠的指导方针，开展妇女赋权（WE）项目的非营利组织（NPO）在监测、评估和评价社会影响（SI）和项目绩效方面面临着挑战。本研究旨在通过提供一种定量工具来分析妇女赋权项目的影响和成果评估指标。研究提出了一个多标准决策（MCDM）模型，利用模糊 TOPSIS（FTOPSIS）和模糊 AHP（FAHP）相结合的方法来识别绩效指标并确定其优先次序。结果验证了根据指标的重要性和可行性对其进行的识别和分类。通过对土耳其从事 WE 工作的非营利组织进行定性研究，确定了社会影响和成果评估指标，并根据建议的组合式 MCDM 框架中设定的标准进行排序。本研究旨在为增强妇女权能的社会影响和成果评估的理论框架和实践做出贡献。

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Social Indicators Research Multiple-

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6.30

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6.50%

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174

期刊介绍： Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.