11/01/2016

A Gender Focused Analysis of Learning Processes of Smallholders within a Development Program in Nepal

The final draft of the Master thesis by BOKU student Katharina Zangerle who conducted the field work for this research within project locations of SAF-BIN project in Nepal supported by the local SAF-BIN team. Based on the Theory of Transformative Learning and theoretical gender perspectives, this study analyzes project activities, outcomes and potential impacts of SAF-BIN in Bardiya and Kaski, Nepal with a focus on gender. Project activities can lead to instrumental (e.g. technical skills and knowledge about farming practices and site-specific technologies) and communicative (e.g. communication skills) learning outcomes, which can result in learning impacts. Through participant observation and 32 semi-structured face-to-face interviews with project participants (16 women, 16 men), qualitative data was collected in 2014. A fieldwork diary and photographs completed the dataset. A comprehensive structure analysis and descriptive statistics were performed using Atlas.ti and Excel.