Sindh Government's Land Distribution Program-Issues and Challenges

2014

ANNALS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PERSPECTIVE, 2021

The study found that Benazir Income Support Program has positive impact to control the extent of poverty in Pakistan; however, the grant is unable to get the beneficiary out of poverty. We interviewed 1000 female beneficiaries of this social protection program from Punjab province of Pakistan and found that the amount of grant helps to manage household expenditures and their food intake has been improved. Major share of the grant goes to the food followed by clothing and education. The results of multinomial regression found that increase in the family size is the factor that blurs the poverty reduction goal of Benazir Income Support Program. Moreover, the beneficiary belonged to rural area and unemployment of the household head are also the reasons that grant is unable to reduce poverty level.

International Journal of Health Sciences (IJHS), 2022

Women has been faced several obstacles for surviving and empowering themselves in emerging countries like an India, because social taboos and mind sets of male dominated society have been responsible for her secondary position. Moreover, India is a welfare state where equality provided to men and women under the law but still far away from reality to overcome this matter. So, government started enormous policies or programmes for wellbeing of vulnerable sections of society like SC, BC, OBC, children and women. Punjab state has been also introduced several policies and schemes to upgrade the livelihood of economic trodden sections. In this section, main focus is on women welfare schemes launched by Indian and Punjab Government.

2017

The determination of this reading is to analyze the role of Benazir's income support program in region Swat Pakistan. The sample size of 200 women were randomly selected from Madyan and Bahrain villages. The results show that Benazir Income Supports Program has 100% positive impact on women's life, reducing the poverty rate. But some women complained about the corruption of the fund transfer system, 73.5% of women said that the BISP transfer system was fair and 26.5% said it is unfair. However, most women were found to be satisfied with the results of the foundation and suggested the government to formulate policies; so that the BISP transfer system will be fairer.

2013

Rural women suffer double discrimination because they are female and poor. Though women are the biggest food producers, they earn only one-tenth of the world's income and own less than 1% of the world's land. The Government of India has tried to provide land to women, but with limited results. The Government of Odisha, with the support of Landesa, developed a pilot program to identify vulnerable landless women and provide them with secure rights to land. The government and Landesa designed a pilot operating from the sub-district land administration office to implement a village household inventory identifying single women such as widows and abandoned women. The pilot also developed the capacities of government officials involved in implementation. As a result of the pilot, the government identified several legal and procedural hurdles to ensuring single women could access land of their own. The pilot has now been scaled to the entire district where out of 300,000 households, close to 15% will be eligible to get land from the government. Considering how this innovative pilot is shaping, the government is keen to scale it further to the entire state, which would mean close to 500,000 single women would get land.

Aksara: Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan Nonformal

Background The phenomenon of women working outside the home is no longer a foreign of conversation. Objective The purpose of this research is to describe the struggle of the female head of the house to survive to support the family. Methods This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. The research data is in the form of observations and interviews with 10 female heads of households who live in Samarinda City. Results Based on the results of observations and interviews, economically the poverty that occurs in female heads of household is due to: a) There is no good management from the government related to human resources so that assistance does not run optimally. b) Lack of ownership of land assets, decent housing for families, salary erratic activities that interfere with the activities of women heads of households, c) The lack of working capital that is currently being carried out, economic activities are carried out with minimal capital, d) There are no bus...

Although the women constitute nearly half of the population of Northern Areas of Pakistan and rural women are especially most deprived section of the society. They experience adverse situation in terms of limited access to income generating activities, socioeconomic inequality and gender disparity and as result they have less opportunity to contribute in family income and hence in rural development. Thus AKRSP has initiated many economic interventions for improving the socioeconomic status of rural women in Northern Areas. For this study the data was collected through interviewing the two groups of women i.e., "Registered and non-registered". The data was analyzed by using multiple regression technique and it was found that there was strong positive credit, number of trainings and trainings in different fields like training in crop production, fruit production, poultry production, animal husbandry and forestry on average monthly income of respondents. It was also found that besides AKRSP's interventions, age of respondents, education, total earning persons and average monthly income of respondents have positive impact on average monthly income of respondents' family. The study concludes that AKRSP has played a major role in socioeconomic development of rural women and hence in rural development through credit and savings scheme, training in different fields of agriculture and also by social mobilization.

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Women have legal claim and right on the property of husband, father, brothers and other relation. But in practice these rights are denied to women on different pretexts especially due to their weaker social status. In 2008, government initiated Benazir Income Support Fund Program; which targeted extremely poor women in Pakistan aimed to bring a socio economic change in their status. This report focuses on the role of Benazir Income Support Fund Program and its impact on women’s property rights and the socio-economic and psychic influences on women. This study aims to specifically explore the role of Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) in securing women’s rights to property as only CNIC holder women are eligible to apply for assistance. The study has applied qualitative method of research using different data collection strategies and is based on case studies of Aurat Foundation, interviews with BISP beneficiaries and available data. Results suggest that the program is primarily designed for direct economic empowerment of women but it has strong social implications for the beneficiaries as well. The program has promoted possession of CNIC among huge poorest segment of women in Pakistan which helps the inclusion of women in their family trees as previously they were not within that tree in governmental record. In this way, the family would hardly ignore the presence of women during marriages, inheritance and entrepreneurial activities; consequently strengthening their property rights and social status. There is no direct empirical evidence suggestive of visible change in properties of BISP beneficiary women, as the program only qualify property-less families for the assistance but the social implication of this program suggests that in the long run it would trickle down to a stronger ‘say’ of women in their lives and a stronger property rights. Registration of women in NADRA also empowers them with ‘right to vote’ and there is a sharp increase in number of women voters in the country. The program by design promotes women centric familial structure rather men headed traditional family centric and hence created a space for women leadership.