Impact of Women Development Fund (WDF) on Livelihood Improvement among Women in Geita Town Council

Kilonge,, Upendo O. (2024) Impact of Women Development Fund (WDF) on Livelihood Improvement among Women in Geita Town Council. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

Women Development Fund is the programme established by the Government of Tanzania and its objective is to support the economic improvement of women especially rural women. Women Development Fund supports women in setting up small income-generating businesses, which in turn are seen as a means to contribute to lifting their household out of poverty. The research was conducted in Geita Town Council. The study objectives were to identify the income generating activities performed by women under Women Development Fund, to examine the effect on extent to which WDF has really helped women to improve their livelihood and to examine the effect on challenges associated with Women Development Fund. The study addressed the Impact of WDF on the livelihood improvement among Women.The research adopted cross-section design while simple random sampling was used to obtain suitable respondents. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze on the objectives of the study. Both primary and secondary data were collected while questionnaires tool were used for data collection. The findings shows that the income generating activities conducted by women were grain trading, food vending, tailoring, poultry keeping and hand craft. Furthermore the findings revealed that average annual household income before WDF was significantly different from that after WDF and challenges associated with WDF were note as bureaucracy system, poor planning for fund uses, community misleading/perception and insufficient fund provided. The researcher recommended that trainings should be facilitated to the Women under WDF concerning business management. Keywords: Women Development Fund, Livelihood Improvement, Impact, Geita

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