Reproductive Empowerment Evidence Database

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DEFINITIONS

All definitions are paraphrased from A Conceptual Framework for Reproductive Empowerment: Empowering Individuals and Couples to Improve Their Health

Components of Agency

  • Choice: ability to individually make and influence decisions that affect one’s life.
  • Voice: capacity to actively articulate and assert one’s interests, opinions and desires in discussions that are relevant to one’s life.
  • Power: a sense of self-worth and rights to challenge their situation, whether acting individually or collectively.

Levels of Agency

  • Individual agency: ability to define reproductive desires, develop plans and execute them.
  • Immediate relational agency: ability to exercise choice and voice in interactions with most immediate environment such as peers, family members and partners.
  • Distant relational agency: ability to exert voice, choice and power with actors outside of immediate relationships such as healthcare providers, religious and political leaders and institutions and international development community.

Expressions of Empowerment

  • Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) decision-making: engaging in the process with real influence on the outcome.
  • SRH leadership: taking lead in challenging power and expanding choice.
  • SRH collective action: collectively taking action to improve status, increase voice and challenge power to a degree that is impossible through individual action alone.
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