scholarly journals RURAL WOMEN AND LIVELIHOODS: OPTIONS FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN DROUGHT RISK AREAS OF BIKITA DISTRICT, ZIMBABWE

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilda Jaka ◽  
Elisha Mafashu ◽  
Munyaradzi Phiri ◽  
Ephraim Maruta ◽  
Evans Chazireni
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Drought Risk ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Poor Access ◽  
Economic Collapse ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
Informal Trading

This paper examined the role of women in livelihoods for the reduction of poverty in drought risk areas of Zimbabwe, case of ward 5, Bikita district. There is an increase of rural women’s participation in economic activities to reduce poverty. The persistence of drought and economic collapse in Zimbabwe influenced the increased participation of rural women in productive activities. Rural women have become breadwinners in most households and have since adopted various livelihood activities to survive. These livelihoods should be able to cater for their daily household needs. A case study design was employed in this study. The study used questionnaires and semi-structured interviews as data collecting instruments. Livelihood activities found included seasonal farming, gardening, and money saving schemes, informal trading, and informal trading. Challenges faced contained within, persistent droughts, economic crisis, lack of economic opportunities, poor access to productive resources, erratic climatic changes and poor infrastructure and technological facilities. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0726/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

The Role of Female’s Participation in Economic Activity to Household Income The Case of Mizan Aman Town, South Nation Nationality And People’s Region, Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kemal Omer Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Linear Regression Method ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Descriptive Method

Abstract The main aim of the study was to examine the role of females' economic participation in household income. To achieve this objective both primary and secondary sources of data were collected from 400 sample size using simple random sampling method. The obtained data were first analyzed using a descriptive method to describe socio-economic characteristics of women in the study area. Secondly, to identify determinants of women’s participation in economic activities and household decision-making process logit model was employed and finally, multiple linear regression method was applied to identify factors affecting the level of women's contribution to household income. The result shows that female participation in economic activities positively determines by women's training and woman’s education level and is negatively affected by the presence of children under five years of age. The contribution of women to household income on average was estimated birr 32,400.50 per annum which was nearly 36.8percent of the overall household income. The possible recommendation is government and other respective bodies must encourage women to learn more and more.

scholarly journals An Empirical Assessment of Participation and Decision Making by Rural Women in Agriculture and Livestock Activities

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 009-012
Author(s):  
Rashmi Chaudhary ◽  
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Yasmin Janjhua ◽  
Avineet ◽  
Krishan Kumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Poor Access ◽  
Women In Agriculture ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Selection Of

Women make essential contributions to agriculture and rural economic activities in all developing countries. Even though women contribute 60 to 80% of the labour in agriculture and animal husbandry, their involvement in selection of suitable crops and adoption of innovative and good management practices is very low. The study reported that sampled women respondents have shown participation in all the selected agriculture and livestock activities excluding marketing and financial management. The study put forth that very less households witness female participation in agriculture and livestock activities related decision making. Some of the important reasons for their subdued role in decision making in agricultural production could be lack of awareness about new opportunities and modern technologies, inadequate facilities for training and capacity building and poor access to extension workers for consultation whenever needed.

scholarly journals Comparative Assessment of Women Involvement in Farming and Family Life in Rural Parts of Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
L. O. Ogunsumi ◽  
Victor A. Adeyeye ◽  
F. B. Fato
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Percent Confidence Level ◽  
Output Increase ◽  
Significant Difference

The study was carried out through the use of structured questionnaire administered on women in two agricultural zones of Oyo State. The main objective of this paper is to examine the extent of women’s participation in farming specifically, the paper is designed to identify the sources of income and compare income levels in two geographical settings, identify and compare farming activities in two different farming zones. In the paper attempt has been made to characterize the farm labour force, access to land and other inputs in the two different farming zones and on the basis of all these some recommendations that if implemented would lead to increase in output, increase in return from farm and consequently increase in their various contributions to the household have been proposed.Some fifty women were interviewed from the two selected zones. Descriptive statistics was used to explain the background information, socio economic activities farming activities, development projects, as well as the problems encountered by women in the two areas.Multiple regression analysis was used to show the extent to which variables such as age, hectarage, educational attainment and experience in farming affect the income of rural women in the study areas. Dummy variables were added to distinguish between the two areas. This is to show if there was a significant difference in the income levels of the rural women in the areas.The study revealed that the size of the farmland cultivated by women in the two areas was generally small. About 50 percent of the respondents cultivated one hectare of land or below. Low credit facility for farm work and lack of modern inputs like fertilizer and improved seeds were major constraints for increased productivity among the women respondents. Innovations introduced in the study areas include Adult education, improved seeds coupled with improved production package. The t-test revealed the lead equation being semi-log, the coefficients of which are hectarage cultivated, educational level and income from other sources were significant at 95 percent confidence level. About, 59 percent of the variations in the income of rural women interviewed were explained by the independent variables.

scholarly journals ANALISIS UNDANG-UNDANG REPUBLIK INDONESIA NOMOR 20 TAHUN 2003 TENTANG SISTEM PENDIDIKAN NASIONAL TERHADAP AKSES ORANG MISKIN PADA PENDIDIKAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Rizki Nur Amalia ◽  
Heppy Hyma Puspytasari
Keyword(s):  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education System ◽  
Poor Access ◽  
The Government ◽  
Program Costs

<p><em>Government steps in realizing compulsory education is not only to provide and build infrastructure kepelosok education area, but the government is also expected to provide assistance in the form of program costs in order to support compulsory education. Investigators therefore conducted this research with the aim to determine the role of Law Number 20 Year 2003 on National Education System in protecting the rights of poor people to participate in education and to investigate the role of government in providing the poor access to education. The method used in this research is qualitative research and research sites located in Jombang District Education Office, SMA Patriot and SMA PGRI in the district Peterongan. Data collection techniques in this study through observation (participatory observation), interviews (structured interviews), documentation (research results). Results from the study showed that education in Jombang district is not discriminatory, even poor people get education services such as the PIP and BKSM budgeted from APBD and APBN.</em><em></em></p><p><strong><em><br /></em></strong></p>

scholarly journals The Role of Rural Women in Promoting Small Industries as an Example of Socio-Economic Activities : An Overview on the Japanese Experience

10.5109/24383 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 335-347
Author(s):  
Mohamed S. Shames-El-Din ◽  
Tomoyuki Yutaka ◽  
JoongGee Kim ◽  
Zhigang Wang ◽  
Satoshi Kai
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Japanese Experience ◽  
Small Industries

A PORTRAIT STUDY OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS - INCLUSIVE GROWTH

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
KumaraSwamy Manepalli
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Inclusive Growth ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Standard Manner ◽  
Unequal Access

Inclusive development is one of the critical determinants of national growth and its importance increases manifold in a developing and vast country like India. The poor living in villages represent the country's vulnerability, arising out of their unequal access to nancial literacy, products and services. Micro nance is to supply micro credit to people living in utter poverty and has no reach to the conservative, formal nancial products. Micro nance focused on availing the credit in a standard manner. Micro nancial schemes plays vital role in increasing women's participation in economic activities and decision making. In this research paper an effort is made to investigate the role of micronance in rural development especially through Micro nancial schemes and other supportive independent factors which are major inuencing part of nancial inclusion. This study is an empirical study which aims to nd out the role and responsibilities of micronance in rural development

scholarly journals Peran Gender dalam Pengelolaan Budidaya Tanaman Padi Pada Gapoktan Sumber Rejeki Desa Kalanganyar Kecamatan Karanggeneng Kabupaten Lamongan Jawa Timur

1970 ◽  
pp. 533
Author(s):  
PUPUT DEWI PURNAMA ◽  
NI WAYAN SRI ASTITI ◽  
WAYAN SUDARTA
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Household Activities ◽  
And Control

Gender Roles in the Management of Rice Cultivation, A Case Study on TheFarmers’ Group of Sumber Rejeki at Kalanganyar Village, Karanggeneng Subdistrict,Lamongan Regency, East Java Most women act as housewives, in addition to being active in household activities,rural women are also participating in rice farming activities from land-processing toharvesting. The study aimed to determine the role of gender in rice farming seenfrom three aspects, namely activity profile, access profile, and control profile(decision making). The research method used is survey method with interviewapproach. Data analysis was conducted descriptivelywith qualitative and quantitativemethods. The findings showed that the role of women and men is different in everyfarming activity. (A) The profile of activity in the outpouring of male labor is greaterthan that of women, the average outpouring of male domestic labor is 199.16 hoursper cultivating season and women is 123.41 hours per season with an average landarea of 6, 64 ares. (B) In the access profile, men have greater access of 78.06% whilewomen of 21.94% ,. (C) The women's participation control profile is very lowcompared with men, it means that the pattern of decision making is dominated bymen up to 96.08%. Based on the results of research, it can be suggested that womenshould play an active role in productive and non productive work. Men are advisedalso to assist in the housework to relieve women's work so that the housework is notneglected. It is also expected to involve women in the extension so that they canincrease participation in their farming activities.

scholarly journals The Role of Non-formal Education in Empowering Women to Improve The Family Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-324
Author(s):  
Rulam Ahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Family ◽  
Training Services

This paper  intends to explain the role of non-normal education in empowering women to improve the family economy. Empowerment is an approach in which women are provided with educational or training services so that they have a set of venture capital to improve their economic conditions. This research was conducted using qualitative research methods, namely describing the phenome of the implementation of women's empowerment through non-formal education to improve the family economy as developed by Pahlawan Ekonomi (PE) in the city of Surabaya. The implication of empowering women is the acquisition of a new set of knowledge, experiences, skills, and attitudes so that participants are able to apply them in their daily lives to increase their income. Economic activities in the family are generally the responsibility of the husband, but not all families are able to meet their needs if they only rely on their income from the husband. Wives (women) generally only receive what their husband's income is, even though women have the potential to participate in increasing family income. It is time for the participation of women (wives) in improving the family economy to be developed. Women do not only depend on their husband's economic income, but on how they also play a role in supporting the improvement of the family economy. Women's participation in increasing the family economy should start from empowering women through education or training that is suitable for their situation and condition.Education that is suitable for empowering women is integrated non-formal education, namely non-formal education whose content of learning is related to the problems or needs of the families of students, namely improving the family economy. The results of this study indicate that the participants of non-formal education (through education and training) experienced changes in their mental attitudes and awareness of the importance of women's involvement (wives) in family economic activities. They do not depend on their husbands anymore, and they attend training in economic skills, so that at the end of the activity they acquire a set of skills that can be used to open new businesses that support the family economy.   Keywords: Empowerment, Nonformal Education, Family Economy

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