The Roles, Opportunities and Challenges of Self Help Group Approach in Local Economic Development
| dc.contributor.advisor | Gebre, Tegegne (Profassor) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yenealem, Adane | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-06T06:59:03Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T09:56:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-06T06:59:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T09:56:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper explores the roles, opportunities and challenges of the self help group (SHG) approach to local economic development. As this SHG approach to local development is a new venture in the country, the study draws on case study research of 16 randomly selected SHGs in Jimma town. The study has further contacted purposefully selected government institutions, micro finance institution, implementing non-governmental organizations (NGO) and individual members from the selected SHGs. The findings demonstrate that the SHG approach to local economic development has contributed to improvements in the living condition of the target population, mainly through employment creation, awareness raising, and linking with other LED actors. The SHG approach introduced regular saving, regular meeting and discussion, bookkeeping, internal lending, mutual support systems and links the SHG/CLA to development partners in the area. The approach encompasses the social, economic and political empowerment process by organizing the local people into their own institutions. The inclusion of health, child rights, women participation and education into its economic development agenda makes it important in the process of poverty reduction and local development. It is a pro-poor approach because it exclusively focuses on the organization and capacity building of the marginalized women. As a result, destitute and marginalized women, who were not able to employ in any formal private andlor public enterprises have opened their own and their family businesses. The approach also installs democratic leadership style, equal participation and equal opportunity to all of the members. The approach can also be applied to other community groups at a lager scale for greater impact. Hence, NGOs and local governments can adapt the approach for its positive contribution to local development and empowerment of the destitute | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/10968 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Local Economic Development | en_US |
| dc.title | The Roles, Opportunities and Challenges of Self Help Group Approach in Local Economic Development | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |