Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment PrOpCom’s Experience in Nigeria

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Tiffany Urrechaga, PrOpCom Communications Manager

Targeting core markets where poor women work.

Understanding the relationship between women’s economic and social empowerment.

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Can the M4P framework address women’s economic empowerment more effectively?

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Production Marketing Processing

PrOpCom was active in the Kano rice value chain

In Kano, 99% of parboilers are women

What is parboiling?

• Hydrothermal treatment of rice paddy

•  Improves milling efficiency & nutritional value

•  87% of rice purchased in urban Nigerian markets is parboiled

CORE RICE PARBOILING

MARKET

RULES

SUPPORTING FUNCTIONS

Finance

Attitudes about women

Knowledge

Technology

Market relationships

Quality standards

Import tariffs

The parboiling market system

Intervention focus

Give them some credit! Agricultural Loans for Nigeria’s Women

Click below on YouTube link to view video

Contrasting the Kano and Adamawa interventions: Large socio-cultural differences

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How much did they reinvest?

Note: Assets include livestock, land, farm equipment, poultry, and savings Other inputs include parboiling equipment, firewood

What were the associated social changes?

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Final decision making authority

Give them some credit! Greater Income, Greater Influence for Nigeria’s Rural Women

Click below on YouTube link to view video

Lessons learned

“Women don’t go [to the market]. Men go, so why bother myself?”

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In Nigeria, money can buy you love (or at least some R-E-S-P-E-C-T).

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“No matter how bad your own thing is, it’s better than the good thing that is not yours.”

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Questions for discussion

Should M4P programmes target markets in which women face fewer or greater social barriers to their entry?

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How can M4P programmes employ a ‘gender lens’ in their diagnosis of which markets to enter?

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How can M4P programmes include monitoring frameworks to report on indicators of women’s social empowerment?

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Poverty reduction potential

Pro-poor access or

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M4P intervention

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Gender lens

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What were the associated social changes?