Development of Community-Based Organization by Agro-Pastoral Women: A Case in Southwestern Ethiopia

• MIYAWAKI YUKIO

  Graduate School of Humanities and Sustainable System Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University

抄録

The Arbore Women’s Association is an organization for mutual aid initiated by women of the Hor in southwestern Ethiopia. The organization has developed and continued its activities for 20 years. The Women’s Association brought the members financial profits through retails of commodities and cash crops in local markets. By participating in such activities, members learned how to earn profits in business. Financial profits that they earned themselves and opportunities for learning enabled them to gain self-confidence, and empowered them. The conditions under which the Women’s Association was organized and continued were as follows: 1) Women felt discontented with their patriarchal tradition, which inhibited them from accessing the wealth brought by the highlanders and the money economy penetrated to the Hor. 2) Slackness of the state rule seems to have induced them to begin a new project. 3) They could combine the two networks, which had different features. The one is a bonding network based on women’s age system, and the other is a bridging network that a male mediator had. 4) Though the aims of the organizers and followers differed, the organizers incorporated the aim of the followers into their frame. Consequently, the Association has been keeping in touch with what the members desired. 5) The Association took a low profile strategy, and did not affiliate with external organizations such as NGOs and the government. Not owing any accountability and responsibility to external organizations, the Association could change its aims, plans and activities flexibly as the local situations changed.

収録刊行物

• Nilo-Ethiopian Studies

  Nilo-Ethiopian Studies 2018 (23), 1-21, 2018

  日本ナイル・エチオピア学会

キーワード

• Ethiopia
• NGO
• Community-Based Organization
• Women
• Empowerment

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390850092196605440
• NII論文ID: 130007987481
• DOI: 10.11198/niloethiopian.2018.23_1
• ISSN: 18811175
• ISSN: 1340329X
• 本文言語コード: en
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