Empowering Tuke Household Women Group of Tandale Ward, Kinondoni Municipal Council In Entrepreneurship And Food Processing Skills.

Mgongolwa, Eva A. (2021) Empowering Tuke Household Women Group of Tandale Ward, Kinondoni Municipal Council In Entrepreneurship And Food Processing Skills. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

A participatory Community Need Assessment (CNA) was done to Tandale ward Household Women Groups and revealed two major needs of business undertaking knowledge and technical aspect of whatever enterprises they undertake. A strategy of the social economic groups under one umbrella coupled with strategic training was planned and done. Tandale Women Social Economic Groups Platform was established to be a resource center to link the groups with necessary institutions. This was followed by selecting and trains one group that will act as a role model for other groups. Tuke Women Group which was dealing with food vendors was selected. This group was trained on entrepreneurship, group dynamics and management and food processing and marketing. In a period of three months, the group businesses had expanded allowing them to make 85% profit margin and members enthusiasm for income generating activities increased. It was hitherto concluded that the CNA to the household women groups had enabled to reveal the real need of the groups. Furthermore, having groups linked by the Tandale WOSEG Platform had made women groups in Tandale well connected to each other and to various micro-financial institutions. The project had attracted Micro financial institutions to fund platform members. Indeed, trainings in entrepreneurship, group management and technical skills had raised confidence and increased income. During M&E, elements of laxity were recorded. It was recommended that stronger involvement of different stakeholders from municipal council and local communities will be needed to sustain project activities. Women groups need to be encouraged to form their own savings and credit societies that will enable getting smooth loan from own sources. Keywords: Empowering, Tuke Household Women Group, Entrepreneurship, Food Processing.

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