Challenges and Contributions of Self Help Groups in Empowering Poor Women: The Case of Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church, Addis Ababa Integrated Urban Development Project
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kebede, Wassie (PHD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yohannes, Mindaye | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-20T10:53:15Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T12:01:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-20T10:53:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T12:01:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The concept of SHG (Self Help Group) did not get enough attention in Ethiopia especially in governmental development policies, strategies and activities. There are few nongovernmental institutions which work on the concept especially in urban areas of the country but, there is no enough research conducted on the issue in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, SHG development strategy have a number of significant contributions for the holistic development of the poor community particularly women. In Ethiopia, women are disproportionately impacted by extreme poverty, unemployment, drained living environment, social injustice, discrimination and other insecurities of life. So, to bring sustainable development in the country it is vital to empower this section of the society who needs empowerment and inspiration to change their life and contribute for the development of their country. The concept of SHG stress on the existing assets of the poor community and bringing community mobilized development by empowering the poor how they can utilize their economic, social and other kinds of resources among them. It inspires poor women to get out of poverty by using their natural potential and gift through regular weakly saving, access to internal and external loan and intensive capacity building training so as to begin and expand small business and income generating activities. Therefore SHGs can serve as the best development strategy to empower and enable destitute people to utilize the existing assets and bring real change in their life and among the community. The purpose of this study is to explore the challenges of SHGs and to investigate the contribution of self-help groups on the life of poor women within the selected sites of Addis Ababa, in which the EKHC integrated urban development program, is engaged and to identify further or alternative ways that the program will operate more efficiently for the future. The research is conducted in four sites namely, Gottera, Qeranio-Bethel, Sar Betoch and Qore, Mikael and Mekanisa area of the project. Data collection methods used in this study includes in-depth Interview, observation, focus group discussion and document review. Two FGDs were held with 12 participants, 16 SHG members and leaders and 4 project coordinating staff members participated in the in-depth interview. The study identified four major contributions of SHGs namely social empowerment, economic empowerment, leadership empowerment and ethical improvement. SHG played a great role in improving saving culture, social life, emotional intelligence and leadership skill of the poor women. On the other hand, SHGs encountered critical challenges in the process of implementing the concept among the community such as financial and material aid expectations from the project, lack of market place and illiteracy of some members of the group. The study concluded that through participating in SHGs, it is possible to bring sustainable development and change in the economic life of the members such as level of income, health care, education and housing condition | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/2244 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social Work | en_US |
| dc.title | Challenges and Contributions of Self Help Groups in Empowering Poor Women: The Case of Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church, Addis Ababa Integrated Urban Development Project | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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