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Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment PrOpCom’s Experience in Nigeria
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Tiffany Urrechaga, PrOpCom Communications Manager
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
What is parboiling?
• Hydrothermal treatment of rice paddy
• Improves milling efficiency & nutritional value
• 87% of rice purchased in urban Nigerian markets is parboiled
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
Give them some credit! Agricultural Loans for Nigeria’s Women
Click below on YouTube link to view video
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
What were the associated social changes?
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Final decision making authority
Give them some credit! Greater Income, Greater Influence for Nigeria’s Rural Women
Click below on YouTube link to view video
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
Pro-poor access or
growth potential
M4P intervention
potential
Gender lens
Poverty reduction
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What were the associated social changes?