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    Impact of Interventions by NGOs on Women Empowerment in Ethiopia: The case of ActionAid Interventions in Ilfeta and Semen Bench Districts
    (Addis Ababa University, 2022-06) Dawit Eshete; Filmon Hadaro (PhD)
    The study is basically designed to access the impact of women empowerment interventions by NGOs in the case of Action Aid Ethiopia in two different woredas which are Ilfeta from the Oromia region and Semen Bench from Southern people Nation and Nationalities of Ethiopia. In most cases, Ethiopian community culture is dominated by patriarchy which gives more opportunity and space to men rather than women. Power and opportunity of resources are compromised. Land and other resource management were mostly given to men while women had no resource ownership and decision-making power both at home and in public, especially in rural areas. Unpaid care is not well redistributed and considered valueless but women spend much of their time caring for the family. Therefore, most rural women in Ethiopia had no time to attend school, employment, or participation in social gatherings and other public events that makes them deprived of their rights. The research objective is to explore the impact of women empowerment from personal, social, economic, and political perspectives by applying both qualitative and quantitative research methods. A survey questionnaire is used for quantitative analysis whereas focus group discussion and key informant interviews are also used for qualitative data analysis. Survey of 288 was conducted on the targeted women and data was analysed and presented in different forms. XI The study reveals that Women empowerment intervention by non-Governmental organizations in Ethiopia is not able to bring holistic transformation. Women's Economic and political empowerment does not meet the desired empowerment level compared with that of social and personal empowerment. The study depicts that women's membership in saving and credit cooperatives is not adequate and micro-level business engagement for sustainable income sources is below the expected status. A political and legal right is found to be insignificant. The study finding indicates that weak institutional support from the government, population pressure, Harmful traditional practice, widow inheritance, and other factors contributed to low women's economic and political empowerment in the study area. The study forwarded recommendations to address women empowerment needs by non Governmental organizations and proposed strategic direction to address the women empowerment gap in Ethiopia