| | | Title | Empowering Women in Tanzania in the Context of Contemporary Social Policy Reforms | | Author | Paschal B. Mihyo; Jamal B. Msami; Donald E. Mmari | | Subject | Women’s Empowerment Social Protection Gender and Development Poverty Reduction Policy Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) | | Publisher | Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) / REPOA | | Keywords | Women empowerment; social protection; Tanzania; PSSN; TASAF; conditional cash transfers; gender inequality; poverty reduction; WEAI; household decision-making; leadership; time allocation; cultural norms; customary law; religion and gender | | Abstract | This book examines women’s empowerment within Tanzania’s evolving social protection system, focusing on the Productive Social Safety Net (PSSN) and conditional cash transfers implemented by TASAF since 2012. Using the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI), the study evaluates empowerment across five domains: production, resources, income, leadership, and time. It combines baseline (2015) and follow‑up (2017) survey data with qualitative analysis. Key findings include: Social protection improves women’s financial capacity and participation in decision-making. However, gender empowerment is not an explicit objective of many programmes. Cultural, religious, and legal factors continue to constrain women’s empowerment. Women experience improvements in economic roles but limited gains in leadership and control over resources. The study concludes that cash transfers alone are insufficient, recommending broader institutional, legal, and social transformation to achieve sustained gender equality. | | ISBN/ISSN | 978-99944-75-04-9 | | Filesize | 2224879 MB | | File Format | PDF | | [ View / download original document ] |
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