Impact Of National Economic Empowerment And Development Strategy (Needs) On Rural Women: A Case Study Of Yelwa Na Farko In Mubi, Adamawa State-Nigeria.
- May 15, 2021
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International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science (IJRIAS) | Volume VI, Issue III, March 2021|ISSN 2454-6194
Dr. Japhet E. Yerima1, Hasiya Salihu1, Hamisu Ali2
1Department of Political and Public Administration, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences
2Department of Economics, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) on Yelwa Na Farko Development Association in Mubi North Local Government Area, by looking at the contribution the NEEDS had made on the rural women in understanding their goals in term of self-reliance in the study area. This study used primary data collection from the respondents through the use of questionnaire and interview; two hundred and eighty questionnaires (280) were distributed and two hundred and fifty questionnaires (250) were successfully returned which recorded (89%) of returned. The study employed simple percentage to analyse the data collected. The result obtained depicts that there is serious discrimination, lack of sufficient capital among the rural women in the study area. The study recommends that; government should breach the gap of discrimination (gender equality) among the rural women, government should provide working capital for rural women and also government should include them in all their decision such as commercial activities, politics and awareness coaching among themselves.
Keywords: Rural Women, NEEDS, Economic Empowerment, Strategy
Introduction
National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) became advanced through the National Planning Commission, through then headed by Professor Charles Soludo. The Federal Executive Council of Nigeria as a poverty softening approach recommended it. The purpose of the scheme became to fulfil the Millennium Development Goals of curtailing the risk of poverty in Nigeria and bringing it to the barest minimal through the year 2015. National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy is a manner of letting the International Community realize wherein Nigeria stands within side the vicinity and the international, and the way it desires to be supported. In searching on the opportunities of National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) in assembly the aspirations of Nigerians, we should now no longer fail to nation that NEEDS specifically, addresses the global Development Targets (IDTs), which had been set in 1996 to enhance monetary wellbeing, social and human
