Abstract This paper assesses the impact of a human capital and cash transfer intervention on individual disempowerment. Using a randomised controlled trial across 120 villages in Northern Uganda, we take a multidimensional measurement approach to evaluate the impact of Women’s Income Generating Support Program on the empowerment of ultra-poor and conflict-affected women. Building on the findings of Blattman et al. (2016) who find positive effects of the program on microenterprise ownership and income, we investigate the effects of the program on women who were most disempowered through an analysis of the joint distribution of the impacts and the changes in deprivation profiles of the targeted populations. Using a measure of ten indicators in five dimensions, we find that the intervention is successful in reducing the average number of deprivations by 13.6% on average relative to the control group at endline. Our analysis show that the intervention was successful in reducing the incidence and the severity of disempowerment among those who experience it more severely. However, we find that, even at endline, most of the participants in the sample experienced deprivation in at least two of the ten indicators simultaneously and that the group dynamics arm of the program did not have a significant impact on the beneficiaries’ empowerment.

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多维影响评估：乌干达北部妇女创收支持计划的影响

摘要 本文评估了人力资本和现金转移干预对个人赋权的影响。通过在乌干达北部 120 个村庄进行的一项随机对照试验，我们采用多维测量方法来评估妇女创收支持计划对赋予超贫困和受冲突影响的妇女权力的影响。基于 Blattman 等人的研究结果。（2016 年）谁发现该计划对微型企业所有权和收入产生积极影响，我们通过分析影响的联合分布和目标人群的贫困状况变化，调查该计划对最被剥夺权利的妇女的影响。使用五个维度的十个指标衡量，我们发现，相对于终点线的对照组，干预成功地将平均剥夺次数减少了 13.6%。我们的分析表明，干预成功地降低了那些经历更严重的人的失能发生率和严重程度。然而，我们发现，即使在结束时，样本中的大多数参与者同时经历了十项指标中的至少两项的剥夺，并且该计划的团体动力部门对受益人的赋权没有显着影响。