Strengthen Income of Widows Through Production of Liquid Soap at Tandale Ward in Kinondoni Municipal.

Mayeka, Steven Simon (2023) Strengthen Income of Widows Through Production of Liquid Soap at Tandale Ward in Kinondoni Municipal. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study conducted a Participatory Needs Assessment in order to strengthen the income of widows through liquid soap production. The project involved 15 widows in the participatory planning assessment tools for prioritizing the problems. Monitoring of the project activities was done in a participatory way using various participatory methods including Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) and Beneficiary Assessment (BA). A Participatory Need Assessment provided people of concern with an opportunity to explain the protection risks they face and to participate as partners in the design of programmatic responses to issues affecting their lives. The major aim of conducting CNA is to gather information from the community so as to identify the needs, problems, and concerns of widows and to address the identified needs by coming up with the appropriate project. The project adopted a methods approach because quantitative and qualitative data were collected by using interviews, FGD, and observation together and separated during the discussion and interpretation. The CNA findings indicated that social economic activities operated by widows are food vending, shop keeping, and other small businesses findings show that the major need of widows in the Tandale ward is to improve their income and the production of liquid soap was the major project identified to address the need of widows. The widows demonstrated commitment towards the realization of the project objectives. Furthermore, they worked together with other stakeholders in the process of the implementing the project. The close involvement of the community Development Officer in the remaining follow-up activities and close supervision was crucial in making sure the goal was attained in order to combat poverty among the widows. It is recommended that other widows in Tandale ward should follow the same way in order to improve their income and reduce poverty. Keywords: income, widows, liquid soap

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