The impact of women's entrepreneurship development programmes on empowerment: findings from Tanzania

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Title:	The impact of women's entrepreneurship development programmes on empowerment: findings from Tanzania
Author:	Makombe, Iddi A.M.
Year:	2007
Periodical:	Africanus
Volume:	37
Issue:	1
Pages:	54-65
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	women entrepreneurs empowerment
Abstract:	This study examines the impact of the Women's Entrepreneurship Development (WED) Programme - implemented by the Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) - on the empowerment of women in Tanzania. The WED Programme is a capacitybuilding and entrepreneurship development programme for women in food processing. The study was conducted in three urban areas, namely Dar es Salaam city, Arusha city and Morogoro municipality. It used the following empowerment variables: contribution to household income; freedom to use own income; ownership of assets; involvement in business associations; participation in trade fairs; freedom of movement; awareness of injustice; and domestic division of labour. It appeared that the WED Programme did empower participating women micro entrepreneurs in most dimensions. Nevertheless, the findings show that women's freedom of movement and control over assets are areas where traditional ideologies are resistant to changes. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]