This article analysed the self-support projects(SSP) for poor women, sponsored by the National Basic Livelihood Security System(NBLSS), from the perspective for women´s welfare, that is perspective of gender-mainstreaming.
This article has four parts, theoretical approach, traits and needs of poor women, limits of self-support projects analysed from the perspective for women´s welfare, suggestions for their modification of current self-support projects.
The second chapter, that deals with the theoretical approach, explains the definition of gender mainstreaming together with the process of paradigm shift to gender mainstreaming in women policy. And we hinted on the directions of revision of SSPs. The third chapter analyzes traits and needs of poor women. Poor women have such problems as weak human resources, insufficient will for self reliance, family problem including children´s problem, unstable residence, shortage or weakness of official and unofficial network of support. Poor women show no active will to live, because of these various uneasy personal and familial circumstances. Therefore multi-level welfare services for women are necessary to attract poor women to SSPs. The fourth chapter analysed limits of SSPs from the perspective of gender mainstreaming. The fifth chapter gives suggestions for modifications of current SSPs. One of the main suggestions is one-stop service system for poor women´s SSPs.
We found that SSPs seemed formally to be gender-neutral, but in content women would be neglected if careful understanding and considerations for poor women were not given, in the process of implementation of the projects.
And then, this article made a few suggestions for modification of the SSPs, from the gender-mainstreaming perspective.
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