Ngowi, Tumainiel E.
(2020)
Promoting Youth Skills Development and Women Empowerment for Income Generation through Microenterprise at Nangowe Ward, Nachingwea District.
Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.
Abstract
The Skills development for youth and women for Nangowe community, is the sequel of the Community Need Assessment (CNA) carried out in Nangowe ward, Nachingwea district in Lindi. It is specially designed to enhance youth skills and promote women capabilities and enable them to efficiently improve their income through establishment of Microenterprise. The research and project implementation covered the period from May 2019 to December 2019. A total of 68 respondents were interviewed using mixed approach. Data analysis was done using SPSS and NVIVO softwares for both quantitative and qualitative analysis consecutively. It was through pair wise matrix the needs were ranked and the project related to entrepreneurial skills for youth was identified to improve their income status. During CNA, the community pointed out that, the lives of Nangowe youth can be uphold through provision of entrepreneurial skills and business knowledge. At implementation of the project, 10 groups of youth were trained and 5 groups had established an economic groups and identified cashew nut processing, quarry mining and tailoring activities as their major economic activities. Project sustatinability was evaluated through FGDs and interviews from trainees and trainers to collect immediate feedback and how the project has enhanced socio-economic status, ability to conduct entreprenurial activities for income generation and promoting business knowledge. Following the gaps on human capital development and other related policies in our country, the study recommends that the educational policy should incorporate the basic entrprenurial knowledge and financial management skills into school curriculum in order to improve human capital and sustainable development.
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