Effectiveness of Tanzania Social Action Fund Program in Promoting Women Entrepreneur's in Tanzania, Rural Area

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Daniel Stephen Wambura

Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF), Entrepreneurship, Women Entrepreneurs, Rural Area.

The study on women entrepreneurs in TASAF-Geita funded sub- projects conducted at Geita district council between 2008 and 2013 whereby six women entrepreneurs groups participated with the average of 5 to 15 members in each group. The general objective of the study was to assess effective of TASAF-Geita in promoting women entrepreneurship by analyzing the determinants for success or failure of women entrepreneurs in their business activities and specific objectives were: to identify the types of entrepreneurship skills provided by TASAF at Rwezela and Bukoli wards, to assess business ability of women entrepreneurs of Rwezela and Bukoli wards supported by TASAF, to assess the specific challenges that TASAF project face in imparting entrepreneurship skills to women entrepreneur’s , and to assess the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs supported by TASAF face in implementation of entrepreneurship skills. Two wards Rwezela and bukoli out of 29 and 5 villages out of 10 villages were selected, Primary data obtained through questionnaire, interviews and focus group discussion during the field survey and secondary data were collected from TASAF documents, reports, guidelines, operational manual, journals and books, as well as related study site in the internet. The data collected were analyzed by using statistical tool such as SPSS version 20 statistical tools like regression, co-coefficient were applied to find out the relationship between variables towards the success or failure of women entrepreneurs in Geita district, The study find out that most women entrepreneurs were 30 years which accounted for about one third of the total respondents (36.9%), and seem to be active in participating the training and vice versa, the women entrepreneurs who had attained primary education were about (76.9%) which in most case lack the ability to catch up and being equipped with entrepreneurship leading to the failure to performance the activities in this case income generating activities, one third of the total respondents are widows, which accounted for (36.9%) this indicate that, most were early married and separated, this group of women seems to be more active in running their business compared to married women and the reason behind was due to family responsibilities which them to work hard and (64.2%) of the total number of respondents were living with number of family around 10 members and (62.7%) of the total number of respondents spent less than $50 per month for their family in which also limits capital expansion which indicates low income generated per month which accounts for 68% of total respondents were not archived their targeted goal, according to this study the success of women entrepreneur’s depend on the age characteristics, educational level, family responsibilities, entrepreneurship background, family support and relevance entrepreneur’s training.

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Daniel Stephen Wambura (March-2023). Effectiveness of Tanzania Social Action Fund Program in Promoting Women Entrepreneur's in Tanzania, Rural Area. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 8(3), a862-a870. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2303093.pdf

Volume 8 Issue 3, March-2023

Pages : a862-a870

Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_188357

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Country: Arusha, Arusha, Tanzania, United Republic of

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