The Potential for Skills Development Programmes to Empower Poverty-Affected and Refugee Women in Rural Jordan

Autor/in	Thorne, Anna
Titel	The Potential for Skills Development Programmes to Empower Poverty-Affected and Refugee Women in Rural Jordan
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 73 (2021) 4, S.526-542 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-6820
DOI	10.1080/13636820.2020.1744691
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Refugees; Females; Skill Development; Empowerment; Poverty; Rural Areas; Job Skills; Well Being; Individual Development; Barriers; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Jordan; Syria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Flüchtling; Weibliches Geschlecht; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Armut; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Produktive Fertigkeit; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Individuelle Entwicklung; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Syrien
Abstract	This paper considers the experience of local and Syrian refugee women enrolled on a skills development programme in rural Jordan from a capability perspective. It explores the value of the capability approach as an evaluative framework: one which opposes the dominant econometric lens traditionally used to evaluate skills development interventions. In doing so, it advocates the use of this approach for providing a holistic view of the outcomes of skills development programmes for women, who, in Jordan -- as elsewhere in the Global South -- are often prevented from participating in the formal labour market, but who may nevertheless stand to gain from skills development interventions. This paper argues that the selected skills development programme in north Jordan contributed significantly to the wellbeing and personal development of the women enrolled. However, it finds that the programme was largely unable to overcome the many barriers to local and Syrian refugee women finding fulfiling employment, as many of them wished to do. It argues that this is indicative of wider socioeconomic challenges in the region which it would be unreasonable to expect a skills development programme to offset and which should not negate the other human development outcomes of the programmes. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01