Has income generating activities and social mobilization among rural women led to greater economic independence, development, and improved status? : …

2010

Masteroppgave i development management- Universitetet i Agder 2010 This has been an effort to show if there indeed is anything to gain in engaging in incomegenerating activities (IGA). The study takes us to North-Eastern Uganda in the Sub-Region of Teso where a women’s group was founded by the name of Teso Women’s Peace Activists or TEWPA. A woman engaging in activities to gain income is not new on the continent of Africa. I Uganda, the local NGOs, community based organizations and the civil service have kept the drum of self-help and alternative income to come out of york of poverty. This study looks at the different theories that conceptualise the approaches to women empowerment and women…