Impacts of PROCOTON on access and control of resources

Women's autonomy requires strengthening their capacity to manage income-generating activities. To this end, PROCOTON, an initiative of SNV, implements the CEF, whose aim is to help producers through capacity building. The objective of this work is to study the impact of PROCOTON's intervention on women's access to and control of resources in the Djougou commune. Two hundred and ninety-nine (299) beneficiaries of the CEF approach in six villages were surveyed. Within this framework, semi-structured and unstructured interviews, and observations made during training and literacy sessions for CAs were used for data collection. The results reveal that the gender approach is applied in the CEF implementation mechanism. Thanks to the use of CEF tools, especially by women, access to and control of resources (income, work equipment, harvested products, etc.) are no longer limited to them. Important decisions are also taken by women to improve their living conditions.

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Floriane OREYICHAN, Agraringenieurin, spezialisiert auf Agrarökonomie und Soziologie, ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften der Universität Parakou. Guy NOUATIN, Agrosoziologe, spezialisiert auf landwirtschaftliche Beratung und Kommunikation für die ländliche Entwicklung, lehrt und forscht an der Universität von Parakou.