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Title: | Umoja wa Wanawake wa Tanzania and the Needs of the Rural Poor |
Author: | Geiger, Susan N.G. |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | African Studies Review |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 2-3 |
Period: | July-September |
Pages: | 45-65 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | rural poverty women's organizations Women's Issues Development and Technology Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/524210 |
Abstract: | In its national women's organization, 'Umoja Wa Wanawake Wa Tanzania' (UWT), Tanzania has a mass association of a woman reaching to the grassroots that has been charged by the government with the tasks of uniting, mobilizing and liberating women in order transform both national and development rhetoric into reality. Using available research on Tanzanian women and on women in development efforts in Tanzania, including data drawn from newspaper articles and interviews collected during research in Tanzania, this paper analyzes the scope and effectiveness of UWT and other organizational efforts directed at improving the lives of poor rural women, and integrating them into development. The analysis includes a discussion of the origins and structure of the UWT as the primary agent responsible for women's projects, a consideration of women focused on women's projects in Tanzania, incluiding those of the UWT as well as those of other governmental and non-governmental organizations with women's sections, and an assessment of the constraints which operate to inhibit attempts to reach and reflect the expressed needs of impoverished rural women. Notes, ref. |