The Impact of Training on Women's Micro-Enterprise Development - Education Research Paper No. 40, 2001, 139 p.
Table of Contents Fiona Leach, Salwa Abdulla, Helen Appleton, Judy
el-Bushra, Nora Cardenas, Kibre Kebede, Viv Lewis and Shashikala
Sitaram February 2000 Serial No. 40
ISBN: 1 86192 284 1 Department For International Development
Department for International
Development
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Summary
Chapter 1:
Introduction
1.1 Rationale and
context
1.2 Assumptions
1.3 Objectives of the
study
1.4 Research design
1.5 The case studies
1.6 The women
Chapter 2: Review of the
Literature
2.1 Training for women's
micro-enterprise development/women in the informal sector
2.2 Women and vocational education and
training
2.3 Training manuals
2.4 Conclusion
Chapter 3:
Methodology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The research design
3.3 The research
instruments
3.3.1 Group 1 women
3.3.2 Group 2 women
3.3.3 The training
3.4 Procedures for setting up the
field work
3.5 Monitoring of the field
work
3.6 Data analysis
3.7 Methodological
issues
Chapter 4: The Dire Dawa Urban
Development Programme (Ethiopia)12
4.1 Background
4.2 The training
4.2.1 Entrepreneurship
training
4.3 The women and the impact of the
training on their lives
4.3.1 The Group 1 women
4.3.2 Findings
4.3.3 The Group 2 women
4.4 Benefits and
constraints
4.5 Conclusions
Chapter 5: Women's Micro-enterprise
Promotion in Silk Reeling (India)16
5.1 Background
5.2 The 'orientation'
programme
5.2.1 The training
process
5.2.2 Benefits of the
training
5.3 The women
5.3.1 The Group 1 women
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5.3.2 Their lives
5.3.3 The impact of the project on the
women's lives
5.3.4 The Group 2 women
5.4 The impact of the
training
5.4.1 Benefits
5.4.2 Failures
5.5 Conclusions
Chapter 6: Small-Scale Food
Processing Training (Peru)26
6.1 Background
6.2 The training
6.2.1 The training
observed
6.3 The sample
6.3.1 The Group 1 women
6.3.2 The Group 2 women
6.3.3 The men
6.4 Findings
6.5 Conclusions
Chapter 7: The Port Sudan
Small-Scale Enterprise Programme (Sudan)27
7.1. Background
7.2 The training
7.2.1 The training
process
7.3 The women
7.3.1 The impact of the training on
the women's lives
7.4 The findings
7.5 Conclusions
Chapter 8:
Findings
8.1 Impact of training on women's
economic and social status (research question 1)
8.1.1 Impact of training on
income
8.1.2 Impact of training on access and
control of resources
8.1.3 Impact of training on
status
8.1.4 Impact of training on quality of
life
8.1.5 Indirect benefits of
training
8.1.6 The relationship between the
four indicators (income, access/control of resources, status and quality of
life)
8.2 Effective training for women's
micro-enterprise development (research question 2)
8.2.1 Training in business
skills
8.2.2 Training in technical
skills
8.2.3 General characteristics
applicable to both types of training
8.3 Interaction between training and
credit (research question 3)
8.4 Conclusions and
recommendations
8.4.1 Policy recommendations
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References
Appendix 1: Types of training
covered by the study and access to credit/savings
Appendix 2: The Socio Economic
Impact Matrix
Appendix 3: Sample of a completed
Matrix (India)
Appendix 4: Income
change
Appendix 5: Relationship between training, credit and increased income in the period immediately after training (4 months in the case of Group 1)
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