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Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment: PrOpCom’s Experience in Nigeria

Dec 25, 2014

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Page 1: Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment: PrOpCom’s Experience in Nigeria

Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment PrOpCom’s Experience in Nigeria

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Targeting core markets where poor women work.

Understanding the relationship between women’s economic and social empowerment.

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Can the M4P framework address women’s economic empowerment more effectively?

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Production Marketing Processing

PrOpCom was active in the Kano rice value chain

In Kano, 99% of parboilers are women

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What is parboiling?

• Hydrothermal treatment of rice paddy

•  Improves milling efficiency & nutritional value

•  87% of rice purchased in urban Nigerian markets is parboiled

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CORE RICE PARBOILING

MARKET

RULES

SUPPORTING FUNCTIONS

Finance

Attitudes about women

Knowledge

Technology

Market relationships

Quality standards

Import tariffs

The parboiling market system

Intervention focus

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Give them some credit! Agricultural Loans for Nigeria’s Women

Click below on YouTube link to view video

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Contrasting the Kano and Adamawa interventions: Large socio-cultural differences

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How much additional net income did the women earn?

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How much did they reinvest?

Note: Assets include livestock, land, farm equipment, poultry, and savings Other inputs include parboiling equipment, firewood

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What were the associated social changes?

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Final decision making authority

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Give them some credit! Greater Income, Greater Influence for Nigeria’s Rural Women

Click below on YouTube link to view video

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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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“No matter how bad your own thing is, it’s better than the good thing that is not yours.”

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Questions for discussion

Should M4P programmes target markets in which women face fewer or greater social barriers to their entry?

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How can M4P programmes employ a ‘gender lens’ in their diagnosis of which markets to enter?

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How can M4P programmes include monitoring frameworks to report on indicators of women’s social empowerment?

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Poverty reduction potential

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M4P intervention

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Gender lens

Poverty reduction

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Backup

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What were the associated social changes?