Targeting Women in a Community-Driven Development Project : Uncovering Gender Roles in the FADAMA Agriculture Project in Nigeria
How does local context affect the targeting and selection of women in community-driven development (CDD) projects? This note explores how local social and economic structures shape the inclusion of female farmers in a CDD agricultural project in Ni...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/05/19695223/targeting-women-community-driven-development-project-uncovering-gender-roles-fadama-agriculture-project-nigeria http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18711 |
| Summary: | How does local context affect the
targeting and selection of women in community-driven
development (CDD) projects? This note explores how local
social and economic structures shape the inclusion of female
farmers in a CDD agricultural project in Nigeria known as
the Fadama project. This story is specific to the cultural
context of the southwest of Nigeria. However, it also
considers the effects of embedding targeting and selection
mechanisms in any local structure, as it illustrates how
gender relations and socio-economic stratification affect a
project's outreach to different categories of women.
This note is based on broader research exploring the
performance and empowerment of female farmers in of the
South West of Nigeria under the World-Bank supported Fadama
project. The Fadama project aims to reduce rural poverty and
increase food security. Beneficiaries are organized in
Fadama Farmer User Groups (FUGs), and the project
facilitates their access to financial and technical
resources through matching grant arrangments. In 2013
additional financing to extend the Fadama project has
provided an opportunity to incorporate in the project design
new interventions to improve the targeting of female
farmers. These interventions include the development and
testing of information and communications strategies
targeting poor or more excluded female farmers as well as a
series of discreet pilots (e.g. financial literacy, peer
learning, and mentoring programs) aimed at supporting the
access of female farmers to the Fadama project. Impact
evaluations attached to these pilots will generate knowledge
on the most effective ways to open opportunities for
equitable access to agriculture services for all female farmers. |
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