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COLLABORATING TO PROVIDE MICROFINANCE TO CAREGIVERS OF
ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN ETHIOPIA
by
Grace Bae Bahng
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Grace Bahng
Object Description
| Title | Collaborating to provide microfinance to caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children in Ethiopia |
| Author | Bahng, Grace Bae |
| Author email | gbae@usc.edu; gracebahng@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Policy, Planning & Development |
| School | School of Policy, Planning, and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-15 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-07-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Tang, Shiu Yan |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Cooper, Terry Miller, Donald Myers, Bryant |
| Abstract | This dissertation studies the collaborative efforts between World Vision Ethiopia (WVE) and Wisdom Micro financing Institution, S.C. (WISDOM) to provide caregivers of orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) in Ethiopia with microfinance. Because of the millions of new OVCs being created every year, many have thought that microfinance could be an effective tool to mitigate the negative effects of loss for OVCs. Nevertheless, because OVC households can often be targets of stigmatization and can have lower levels of social capital, the heavy dependence of microfinance on mechanisms that use social capital can consequently work to exclude many OVC households.; Despite the assumptions of the staff working for WVE and WISDOM concerning the capacity of OVC caregivers to participate in microfinance, it was the collaborative efforts between WVE community workers with WISDOM staff that resulted in the inclusion of more OVC caregivers in WISDOM loans. Furthermore, it was the observations of the positive impact that WISDOM was having on the community in general that showed to be the biggest factor in motivating WVE community workers to collaborate with WISDOM in their lending processes. The result was, in a comparison among newer and older borrowers of WISDOM, in addition to eating more and attending school more often, OVCs in households who had been participating in WISDOM for over a year fared better in psychosocial measures as well. Thus, the potential of microfinance to mitigate the negative effects of loss for OVCs is substantial.; The irony of this particular case was that both the ability of WVE community workers to include more OVC caregivers in WISDOM and the success of OVC caregivers in microfinance occurred without either organization being aware of it. As a result, collaborative efforts between the two organizations weakened in recent years while false assumptions concerning the separate needs of different populations among the poor were never challenged.; However, despite the two organizations' different missions, their work was not separate. WVE services may have actually been working to prepare many households in the community to participate in higher forms of economic development, such as microfinance, demonstrating the importance of collaboration and integrated models for development work. |
| Keyword | microfinance; microloans; collaboration; orphans and vulnerable children; international development; Ethiopia; World Vision; orphan well-being |
| Geographic subject (country) | Ethiopia |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2412 |
| Rights | Bahng, Grace Bae |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Bahng-3171 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Bahng-3171.pdf |
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| Full text | COLLABORATING TO PROVIDE MICROFINANCE TO CAREGIVERS OF ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN ETHIOPIA by Grace Bae Bahng A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLICY, PLANNING, AND DEVELOPMENT) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Grace Bahng |
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