The Role of Local NGOs for Women Economic Empowerment

ISBN-13: 9783848433223 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 116 str.

Tadele Getahun Desta

Opis

Economic Empowerment: better access to resources and capability to create productive resources in a sustainable manner, the freedom to make decisions which affect their life, the increment in the capacity of women to send their children to school, the credit service that women are accessing, membership in women IGAs, better access to agricultural extension and their representation in various committees, better access to seed money, increment in the average household expenditure to education/health, the improvements in to social standing and ability to handle business, better access to training, market information and availability of market and products place for women groups. A women can be called empowered when her level of income is increased, obtain livestock and full participation in decision making on purchase of resource. It simply means the reduction of powerlessness on the side of women & obtaining the necessary resources for living- assume the power of decision making and capable of being knowledgeable through participation in training programs.

O autorze

Getahun Desta, TadeleTadele Getahun has obtained his Masters Degree in Development Studies in 2011 and Bachlers of Arts Degree in Accounting in 2002. Since then he has worked in different International Humanitarian Organizations. He is the Regional Administration Manager in International Training and Education Center for Health(I-TECH)-Ethiopia Program.