An Assessment of World Bank Food Security Project in Oromia Region from Gender Perspective: The Case of Kuyu Project Site
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2003-07
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The present study is an assessment and evaluation based research that intended to
examine World Bank Food security Project in Oromia Regional State from a gender
perspective. To arrive at the desired objectives, both quantitative and qualitative
approaches were applied. Three data collecting instruments were used. Structured
questionnaire was designed and administrated to 176 sample respondents. Four focus
group discussions each with ten members were conducted. In-depth interview schedule
was designed and conducted with twelve respondents. Furthermore, four key informants
selected from project officers were also interviewed.
Textual explanation and narration of the summarized data was applied upon the
qualitative data while descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage and mean
formed a substantial part of analysis for the quantitative data. Mc Nemar test was
performed to test the improvements brought up on the beneficiaries' food security after
the intervention of the project. Chi square was performed to see the association between
the opinion of female and male respondents on gender sensitivity of the project's design
and coordination as well as on integrating gender issues in the project intervention.
Results indicated that the project under study is quite efficient in improving food security
status of the beneficiaries. The study also revealed that the project's benefit favors male
beneficiaries over the female and this was due to several reasons among which less
gender responsiveness of the project's goal and indicators, women's less representation
in the project's design and coordination, religious dogma and traditional practices that
devaluate women's productive role, and female beneficiaries' over load with triple roles
are the common. The major policy implication of the current study is that some of the
objectives, indicators, and approaches of the project under study need to be revised in
such away that they must be gender responsive.
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World Bank Food Security Project