The document discusses PrOpCom's experience promoting women's economic empowerment through their work in the rice value chain in Kano, Nigeria. It found that 99% of parboilers in Kano are women. Through interventions like providing loans, training, and market access, women parboilers earned substantially more income and reported gains in decision making, status, and roles both in their households and communities. The project demonstrates how addressing women's economic roles can positively impact their social empowerment as well.

1. Promoting Women’s Economic Empowerment
PrOpCom’s Experience in Nigeria
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2. Can the M4P framework address women’s economic
empowerment more effectively?
Targeting core markets where
poor women work.
Understanding the relationship
between women’s economic
and social empowerment.
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3. PrOpCom was active in the Kano rice value chain
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In Kano, 99% of
parboilers are women

4. What is parboiling?
• Hydrothermal
treatment of rice
paddy
• Improves milling
efficiency &
nutritional value
• 87% of rice
purchased in
urban Nigerian
markets is
parboiled

5. The parboiling market system
SUPPORTING
FUNCTIONS
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RICE PARBOILING
MARKET
RULES
Finance
Knowledge
Attitudes
about women
Technology
Market
relationships
Import tariffs
Quality
standards
Intervention
focus

6. Give them some credit!
Agricultural Loans for Nigeria’s Women
Click below on YouTube link to view video

7. Contrasting the Kano and Adamawa interventions:
Large socio-cultural differences
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8. How much additional net income did the women earn?
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How much did they reinvest?
Note: Assets include livestock, land, farm equipment, poultry, and savings
Other inputs include parboiling equipment, firewood

10. What were the associated social changes?
P" Decision making over discretionary purchases
P" Status in household and/or community
P" Change in professional roles & responsibilities
Final decision making authority
Change in household roles & responsibilities

11. Give them some credit!
Greater Income, Greater Influence for Nigeria’s Rural Women
Click below on YouTube link to view video

12. Lessons learned
“Women don’t go [to the market]. Men go, so
why bother myself?”
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In Nigeria, money can buy you love
(or at least some R-E-S-P-E-C-T).
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“No matter how bad your own thing is, it’s
better than the good thing that is not yours.”
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13. Questions for discussion
Should M4P programmes target
markets in which women face fewer
or greater social barriers to their
entry?
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How can M4P programmes employ
a ‘gender lens’ in their diagnosis of
which markets to enter?
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Gender lens
How can M4P programmes include
monitoring frameworks to report on
indicators of women’s social
empowerment?
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Poverty
reduction
potential
Pro-poor
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M4P
intervention
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