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Promoting Womens Economic Empowerment PrOpComs Experience in Nigeria SDC e+i network Public Seminar on Womens Economic Empowerment Bern, Switzerland 9th May 2012 Tiffany Urrechaga, PrOpCom Communications Manager Structure of todays
Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment
PrOpCom’s Experience in Nigeria SDC e+i network Public Seminar on Women’s Economic Empowerment Bern, Switzerland 9th May 2012
Tiffany Urrechaga, PrOpCom Communications Manager
Structure of today’s presentation What is PrOpCom? How did PrOpCom address economic empowerment of women? Results achieved Lessons learned for M4P
(Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities through Commodity and Service Markets)
funded M4P programme
implementation began in 2006 with commodity-based interventions in southwest and northern Nigeria
(Promoting Pro-Poor Opportunities through Commodity and Service Markets)
funded M4P programme
implementation began in 2006 with commodity interventions in southwest and northern Nigeria
2009, and ended in 2011 with broad geographic reach in service markets
RICE MARKETS RULES SUPPORTING FUNCTIONS Fertiliser Parboiling
Attitudes about local rice
Finance
Information services Milling
Equipment Rice policies
Quality standards Marketing
Most impact on women found in two support markets
Seeds
Highest ratio
beneficiaries
14% 100%
Examining the relationship between income increases and women’s economic empowerment.
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How did we address economic empowerment of women?
Targeting core markets where poor women work.
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Parboilers intervention
Paddy cultivation Harvesting Threshing & winnowing Parboiling Drying Milling Sorting Packaging Distribution
Production Marketing Processing
PrOpCom was active in the Kano rice value chain
In Kano, 99% of parboilers are women
Why intervene in parboiling?
treatment of rice paddy
efficiency & nutritional value
purchased in urban Nigerian markets is parboiled
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Impact on poor Core market Support market Activities PrOpCom partners with bank Loans disbursed to women Women use loans as working capital & employ new business practices
How did PrOpCom monitor its impact on women’s income?
Women parboilers increase profits Women trained in new business practices and technology PrOpCom links bank to women PrOpCom and bank help women gain access to finance / technical advice
Additiona itional l net t income me
£1,8 ,858, 8,938 38 for r 817 7 parbo rboiler ilers
£256 £1'861 £0 £500 £1'000 £1'500 £2'000 Kano Parboilers Adamawa Parboilers
Change in annual profit
163% 67% 0% 50% 100% 150% 200% Kano Parboilers Adamawa Parboilers
% change
How did the additional net income differ by state?
Moving from income to empowerment Decision making
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Assets
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Roles and responsibilities
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Look at social context Household Business Community
78% 73% 122% 68% 58% 69% 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 125% 150% Kano Parboilers Adamawa Parboilers
% change in investments
Rice paddy Labour Assets
Increased investment in business assets was measured quantitatively
Note: Assets include livestock, land, farm equipment, poultry, and savings
Changes in decision-making and roles & responsibilities Status in household and community
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Decision making over discretionary purchases
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Change in household roles & responsibilities Change in professional roles & responsibilities in Kano
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Final decision making authority
Challenges to sustainability Embedding mentoring for women into market actors’ services
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Scale vs. depth of impact
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Our learnings on women’s economic empowerment in M4P
If M4P programmes aim to move from income to empowerment, they need to include additional indicators
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Using a portfolio approach, M4P programmes can employ a ‘gender lens’ to target specific markets
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M4P programmes CAN change women’s professional roles and business decision-making capacity
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Poverty reduction potential Pro-poor access or growth potential M4P intervention potential
Gender lens
Poverty reduction
A final word on empowerment… “No matter how bad your own thing is, it’s better than the good thing that is not yours.”
Thank you.
For more information:
Backup
Damisa and Yohanna, 2007.
Study on women’s decision-making
PrOpCom, 2011.
What were the associated social changes?
Lessons learned “Women don’t go [to the market]. Men go, so why bother myself?”
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In Nigeria, money can buy you love
(or at least some R-E-S-P-E-C-T).
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