 | | The Impact of Training on Women's Micro-Enterprise Development - Education Research Paper No. 40 (DFID, 2001, 139 p.) |
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 | | (introduction...) |
 | | Department for International Development |
 | | Acknowledgements |
 | | Acronyms |
 | | Summary |
 | | Chapter 1: Introduction |
 | | Chapter 2: Review of the Literature |
 | | Chapter 3: Methodology |
 | | Chapter 4: The Dire Dawa Urban Development Programme (Ethiopia)12 |
 | | Chapter 5: Women's Micro-enterprise Promotion in Silk Reeling (India)16 |
 | | Chapter 6: Small-Scale Food Processing Training (Peru)26 |
 | | Chapter 7: The Port Sudan Small-Scale Enterprise Programme (Sudan)27 |
 | | Chapter 8: Findings |
 | | References |
 | | Appendix 1: Types of training covered by the study and access to credit/savings |
 | | Appendix 2: The Socio Economic Impact Matrix |
 | | Appendix 3: Sample of a completed Matrix (India) |
 | | Appendix 4: Income change |
 | | Appendix 5: Relationship between training, credit and increased income in the period immediately after training (4 months in the case of Group 1) |
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Appendix 3: Sample of a completed Matrix (India)
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Project Name: |
WMESR |
Interviewee Name : |
Code No. 05 |
Date: |
25.07.1998 |
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Training Received: |
Orientation in May 1997 |
Interviewer Name : |
Shashikala Sitaram |
Location of Interview, +no. |
Mangala Hosur Fourth Round |
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ACTIVITIES |
TIME |
SKILLS |
RESOURCES |
ECONOMIC OUTPUTS |
SOCIAL IMPACT |
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Woman |
+ silk-reeling business + reels silk too. + stifles
cocoons + divide cocoons too + more household work as daughter got
married + the group activities continue. |
+ about 8 hrs. of time engaged in productive work. |
- skills of marketing have not been useful. + puts in skilled
activity of reeling |
+ reeling unit has become functional - yet to employ another
person as turner. |
+ increased income + computes wages + increased
savings. + reduction in indebtedness. - owes money to the NGO |
+ happy to move from being a wage earner to becoming a business
women. + happy that others look at her as a businesswomen. + happy that
she need not go to the market + handles money carefully - does not
perceive any need to change the decision making power at the household level.
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|
Man (Husband) |
+ physical labour of reeling/turning. + stifles and skiens
too - does not go to the market |
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+ skilled work of reeling, skiening, stifling, etc. |
+ computed income (of a turner/reeler) |
+ earns income |
+ approves of the present way of money lending by the NGO +
encourages her to answer questions. + is careful in handling the money lent
to her by the NGO - Claims to have "trained" her |
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Household |
+ son helps in livestock rearing and also acts as a turner at
times. - daughter not employed |
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- spent Rs. 16,000/- celebrating daughter's marriage |
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+ daughter happy that her mother can answer queries and also
move around boldly. |