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The Challenges of Empowering Women: The Experience of Pulse Innovation Project in Southern Ethiopia

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  • Esayas Bekele Geleta
  • Paitence Elabor-Idemudia
  • Carol Henry
  • Nigatu Reggassa

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Within the last two decades, women’s empowerment has been the central theme of international development policy and practice. This article seeks to elucidate the challenges of integrating gender in a development project to empower women. Drawing on the wider literature on women’s empowerment, it constructs a framework to analyze the meaning of empowerment. The article then draws on the framework and empirical data gathered to illuminate the challenges of integrating gender in a pulse innovation project, implemented in Southern Ethiopia. The article elucidates gender hierarchies that limit the extent of women’s involvement in crop production processes. It demonstrates social and cultural factors that restrict women from fully participating in high value pulse markets and their involvement in production and exchange decision-making. It also illustrates how existing social networks, relations, and links disadvantage women. The article then recommends solutions to help facilitate the integration of gender in the project toward the empowerment of women.

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  • Esayas Bekele Geleta & Paitence Elabor-Idemudia & Carol Henry & Nigatu Reggassa, 2017. "The Challenges of Empowering Women: The Experience of Pulse Innovation Project in Southern Ethiopia," SAGE Open, , vol. 7(4), pages 21582440177, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:7:y:2017:i:4:p:2158244017736802
    DOI: 10.1177/2158244017736802
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    1. Esayas Bekele Geleta, 2014. "Social Capital as Collateral: Banking on the Poor," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 73(1), pages 108-125, January.
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    1. Ashenafi Hagos Baynesagn & Etsegenet Hailu Tolla, 2022. "Poor Mothers and Begging: How Impoverished Ethiopian Women Support Their Children in the Absence of a Strong State Welfare System," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(2), pages 21582440221, April.
    2. Sajeda Pervin & Mohammad Nazari Ismail & Abu Hanifa Md Noman, 2023. "Does Microfinance Singlehandedly Empower Women? A Case Study of Bangladesh," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(2), pages 21582440221, May.

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