Changing Women's Lives and Work
An analysis of the impacts of eight microenterprise projects
An in-depth analysis of eight microenterprise projects undertaken by three agencies in India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Ghana and Tanzania. It is unique in its detailed presentation of such a varied range of individual projects, and in its use of a single analytical framework for all the projects, enabling comparisons to be tightly drawn between them. The study has generated some significant and controversial results. Looked at from the point of view of the women this book attempts to describe the impact of the different projects on their lives. This book is designed for planners and practitioners, graduate students, and others interested in the results of the microenterprise programmes now popular throughout the developing world.
Published: 1996
Pages: 240
eBook: 9781780444659
Paperback: 9781853393198
| PREFACE ix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ONE: Introduction 1 | |||
| Framework for analysis 5 | |||
| Sponsoring agencies: UNIFEM, ITDG and ATI 6 | |||
| United Nations Development Fund for Women 7 | |||
| Intermediate Technology Development Group 8 | |||
| Appropriate Technology International 9 | |||
| Strategy choice in eight SME projects 11 | |||
| Ranking the countries 13 | |||
| Research methodology 16 | |||
| The questionnaires 16 | |||
| Supporting research 19 | |||
| Guide to the discussion 21 | |||
| Setting the bias out front 21 | |||
| Conclusion 23 | |||
| TWO: Food Processing in Peru 24 | |||
| Setting the context 24 | |||
| Women in the Peruvian economy 26 | |||
| The Peru Food Processing Project 29 | |||
| Facing the field 32 | |||
| The women's report 35 | |||
| Conclusion 42 | |||
| Annex 45 | |||
| THREE: Honduras - Cashew Nut and Fruit Production 46 | |||
| The state and the nation 46 | |||
| Women in Honduras 47 | |||
| The Honduran Cashew Project 1981-8 50 | |||
| Events and challenges 52 | |||
| The women's record 56 | |||
| Conclusion 61 | |||
| Annex 66 | |||
| FOUR: Guatemala - Wool Production and Processing Project 67 | |||
| Economy and politics 67 | |||
| Guatemalan women 69 | |||
| The Wool Production and Processing Project 71 | |||
| Sheep and Wool Production 72 | |||
| Wool Processing and Weaving 73 | |||
| Commercial Enterprise 73 | |||
| Overcoming the obstacles 74 | |||
| Men and women react 78 | |||
| The bottom line 86 | |||
| Annex 90 | |||
| FIVE: Bangladesh - Surjosnato Coconut Products 91 | |||
| Poverty and hope 91 | |||
| Growing forces of conservatism: women in Bangladesh 93 | |||
| The Surjosnato Coconut Project 94 | |||
| Dealing with the impossible 97 | |||
| Women speak out 100 | |||
| Balancing the results 106 | |||
| Annex 109 | |||
| SIX: India - The Sericulture Project 110 | |||
| India and development 110 | |||
| Indian women 111 | |||
| The Women's Sericulture Project 114 | |||
| Establishing the reality 118 | |||
| Impacts on women 120 | |||
| Assessing the record 127 | |||
| Annex 131 | |||
| SEVEN: Thailand - Venture Capital and the Pickled Ginger Group 132 | |||
| The development miracle 132 | |||
| Quiet power: Thai women 133 | |||
| The Joint Venture Capital Project in Northern Thailand 135 | |||
| Venture capital in action 138 | |||
| Impacts and changes in individual lives 139 | |||
| Expectations and reality 146 | |||
| Annex 149 | |||
| EIGHT: Ghana - Shea Butter Processing 150 | |||
| Structural adjustment and development 150 | |||
| Women in the marketplace 153 | |||
| The Shea Butter Processing Project in Ghana 155 | |||
| The project in the field 158 | |||
| Many faces, many experiences | |||
| The reality of the Shea Butter Project | |||
| Annex | |||
| NINE: Tanzania - Food Processing | |||
| Climbing up the development ladder | |||
| Poverty and prospects: Tanzanian women | |||
| The Tanzania Food Processing Programme | |||
| The dream and the reality | |||
| Women's voices | |||
| Realizing the dream | |||
| Annex | |||
| TEN: A Comparison of the Impacts of Different Strategies . . . | |||
| Basis of comparison | |||
| Comparative data analysis | |||
| Findings | |||
| Significance of quantitative analysis findings | |||
| Conclusion | |||
| Annex | |||
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Lucy Creevey
Dr. Lucy Creevey is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. She has written numerous articles and monographs on the impacts of micro enterprise and micro finance programs, their participants, and the changing role and status of women in developing countries. Her current research is on Islam and democracy in Senegal and feminism and fundamentalism in Africa.
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