Title Page
Abstract
List of Abbreviations
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction 13
1.1. Background of the Study 13
1.2. The rationale of the Study 15
1.3. Objectives of the study 17
1.4. Research Question 17
1.5. Research Framework 18
1.6. Significance of the Study 19
Chapter 2. Literature Reviews 20
2.1. Introduction 20
2.2. What are CBD projects? 20
2.3. Concept of Women's empowerment 21
2.4. Women's participation in CBD projects 23
2.5. Review on influencing factors of women's participation in CBD projects 24
2.6. Review of approaches or strategies that can be adopted to improve the rural women's participation in CBD projects 28
Chapter 3. Research Methodology 30
3.1. Introduction 30
3.2. Research Approach 30
3.3. General Description of Study Area 30
3.4. Target population 31
3.5. Sample size and sample selection 32
3.6. Data collection procedures 32
3.7. Method of data analysis 32
3.8. Limitations of the Study 33
3.9. Ethical considerations 33
3.10. Analytical Framework 34
Chapter 4. Data Analysis and Discussion 36
4.1. Introduction 36
4.2. Socio-economic Demographic characteristics of the respondents 36
4.2.1. Respondents' Demographic characteristics by age, gender, marital status and status in family 36
4.2.2. Respondents' demographic characteristics by occupation and ethnic group 40
4.2.3. Respondents' demographic characteristics by income level and level of education 41
4.2.4. Participation of the Respondents in the CBD projects 43
4.2.5. The responsibilities in the CBD project committees 45
4.2.6. Challenges or Barriers of women's participation in CBD projects 45
4.3. Factor analysis 48
4.4. Binary Logistic regression model 53
4.4.1. Binary Logistic regression model for factors affecting on women's participation in the CBD projects 53
4.4.2. Significance of Binary Logistic regression model variables 54
4.4.3. Goodness-of-fit of the model 55
Chapter 5. Summary and Conclusion 60
5.1. Introduction 60
5.2. Summary 60
5.3. Conclusion 62
5.4. Recommendation 63
References 64
APPENDIX 66
요약 74
Table 1. Demographic characteristic by age of the respondents 37
Table 2. Respondents' demographic characteristics by income level 42
Table 3. Participation of the Respondents in the CBD projects 44
Table 4. Challenges and barriers of women's participation in CBD projects 46
Table 5. Components extracted by factor analysis showing the total variance explained 49
Table 6. Rotated component matrix of method 50
Table 7. Components extracted by PCA and their independent variables 52
Table 8. Logistic regression analysis for the participation of women in the CBD projects 54
Table 9. Omnibus Tests of Model Coefficient 55
Table 10. Model Summary 56
Table 11. Classification table 56
Table 12. Hosmer and Lemeshow Test 57
Figure 1. Research Framework 18
Figure 2. The dimension of women's economic, political and social empowerment 22
Figure 3. Locational map of Kham Par Muu, Yay Phyu Kan and Pone Tat villages 31
Figure 4. Analytical Framework 35
Figure 5. Respondents' Demographic characteristics by gender 38
Figure 6. Respondents' Demographic characteristics by Marital Status 39
Figure 7. Respondents' demographic characteristics by status in the family 40
Figure 8. Respondents' demographic characteristics by occupation and ethnic group 41
Figure 9. Respondents' demographic characteristics by level of education 43
Figure 10. The responsibilities in the CBD project committees 45