NGOs Income Generation Services and Rural Women Empowerment in Rwanda: A Case of Care International in Huye District, Isaro Programme
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https://doi.org/10.53555/nnssh.v7i10.1042Keywords:
NGOs, Income Generating Services, Rural women, empowerment, CARE International, Isaro Programme, RwandaAbstract
The main intention of this research was to analyze the role of NGOs income generating service and empowerment of rural women in Rwanda with a case of care international in Huye district, the Isaro program. The investigator used the interview guide, questionnaire and observation to collect information from the primary respondents and the field in general. Bouchard Formula was used to draw 97 respondents from target population of 2015 people (5 employees of Isaro Programme and 2010 rural women) including 5 respondents who are employees of Isaro Programme and 92 respondents who are direct beneficiaries of Isaro Programme applied both simple random and census as sampling techniques. The collected information was analyzed using multiple linear regression and correlation analysis by use of SPSS 21.0 version. The findings showed that 83 (85.6%) of respondents strongly agreed that the Isaro programme offers capacity building through training, 84 (86.6%) of respondents strongly agreed that Isaro program offers access to credit, 85 (87.6%) of respondents that the Isaro programme has group saving scheme as a service offered to rural women, 84 (86.6%) of respondents strongly agreed that Isaro programme offers mutuelle de santé as a service to rural women, 76 (42.3%) of respondents before joining Isaro programme saved seasonal average of money from 0 to 10000 Rwf to rural women, 25 (25.8%) of respondents after joining Isaro programme saved seasonal average of money from 40000 to 50000 Rwf to rural women. The results have also prove that there is there is a relationship between group saving scheme and participation in family economic development services which has Pearson correlation of 0.731 and calculated significance value which is 0.00 lesser than 0.05 level of significance, between the group savings scheme and participation
in decision making at family level which has r =0.822 and sig=0.00 calculated significance value which is lesser than 0.05 significance level, between the group saving scheme and livelihood development which has a Pearson correlation of 0.671 and calculated significance of 0.00 that is less than the significance level of 0.05 significance level, between accessibility to credit and capacity building through training that has a Pearson correlation of 0.711 and the calculated significance value is 0.00 which is lesser than 0.05 significance level (p=.711 and sig=.000 < 0.01 level of significance. In conclusion, the results of the study have revealed that NGOs income generating services play a significant role in
empowering rural women in Rwanda.
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