The impact of livelihood projects in promoting and empowering women in Kassala state- Eastern Sudan (2018-2023 AD)‎

Abstract EN

This study aims to shed light on the impact of livelihood interventions to promote and empowered women in eastern su danese community.

this study has been conducted in kassala state in eastern sudan during the period between, december,2018 to february, 2023.

the study inspected the livelihood projects in strengthening and developing women and their ability to manage their projects.

the study used the descriptive analytical approach and case study.

data was collected through primary and second ary sources, using questionnaire tools, personal interviews, and discussion groups in the study population.

sampling techniques were applied, the first is purposive sampling techniques (taking a random sample of women in the localities of telkok and tagug) the second method used is snowball sampling through which the respondent is located and identified by informants.

the research er used pra techniques to increase the space for women and the weak participation to express and control the knowledge that is being created.

the researcher analyzed the data of the study us ing the statistical package for social sciences (spss) program, following the descriptive statistics method, represented by the fre quency tables, in addition to the chi-square test.

while secondary sources are collected through information relevant to the research topic, obtained through previous studies, references, and the in ternet.

the result showed that, a woman who headed a family is a working women, and working women whatever their income is represent a center of power for their family and have a good level of decision, the majority of respondent women had benefited from the projects supported by ingos & nngos, particularly benefit ed from income generation projects (livelihood) and their income increased and had a gradually positive change from the profit of their business.

also reflected the most of targeted women benefited from their projects, women can contribute to some extend to cov er their needs and their family's basic needs and few of them can save.

the study recommended that, importance of much attention to the issues of increasing women's access to financial services, much needs to be done to ensure women are actually empowered.

we need to pay attention to women's control over the use of loans, the nature of their investment activity, their access to markets, to social and business support services and to new technologies.

by focusing on women's empowerment.

addition that conducting training and capacity building should be flexibly designed so that training can be integrated when needed.

training must be tailored to the programme and the women, and their input should be solic ited when deciding on the topics to be addressed.