NGO Family Planning Programs and Indigenous Women's Motivations for Collective Action: A Case Study of Solola, Guatemala
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- Abstract
- Women’s collective action can lead to fundamental social and political change, yet the factors that encourage such phenomenon are not fully understood. Using Solola as a case study, this research intends to answer the question: How, if at all, can Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) family planning programs motivate Guatemalan rural indigenous women’s collective action-specifically towards demanding accountability from the public sector in the field of reproductive health? Current literature and empirical research pose conflicting mechanisms to explain the impact of NGOs on generating motivations for collective action. This qualitative context-specific field study, using protests and women’s groups as proxies for collective action, aims to both further elucidate this debate and test the hypothesis: Indigenous women who participate in NGO family planning programs are likely to be more motivated to join collective action movements than non-participants due to a) exposure to accurate information about family planning methods and their benefits, b) increased awareness of reproductive rights and government obligations and c) participation in advocacy training. This study’s data set consists of 53 semi-structured interviews with indigenous women in rural communities of Solola, both participants and non-participants of three different NGO programs, as well as community health workers (CHWs) and comadronas (CHW+Cs). Data is analyzed through a three-pass qualitative coding process, using internal and external code types. Main findings of this study are that NGO family planning programs, despite not playing a determinant role in originating motivations to join protests or women’s groups, can leverage indigenous women’s motivations rooted in personal experiences by holding discussion spaces, generating role models and using rights language to refer to family planning. These mechanisms can encourage indigenous women’s collective involvement in their community, which, in turn, can contribute to ensuing motivations for collective action that involve interactions in the public sphere to demand accountability from the government.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | June 1, 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Filippa, Sofia |
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| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Fisher Family Honors Program in Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law |
| Primary advisor | Wise, Paul |
Subjects
| Subject | Guatemala |
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| Subject | indigenous women |
| Subject | family planning |
| Subject | collective action |
| Subject | NGO |
| Subject | qualitative research |
| Subject | center on democracy development and the rule of law |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Filippa, Sofia. (2017). NGO Family Planning Programs and Indigenous Women's Motivations for Collective Action: A Case Study of Solola, Guatemala . Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/mx969mt5037
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