Exploring the development challenges facing rural women in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe

Ndhlovu, Gretchen Nokukhanya

Exploring the development challenges facing rural women in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe

Master Thesis

2011

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

Department of Social Development

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Abstract

The objectives of the study are to explore how women assess their situation in Matabeleland South with regard to their socio-economic realities; to find out the individual and community circumstances that these rural women in the drought prone region find themselves in; to explore the most important development challenges in relation to the impacts of climate change, access to water, food insecurity, poverty, education and health facilities; to examine the survival strategies that rural women adopt in the present situation and to ascertain the recommendations they make to the government and Non Governmental Organisations to improve their situation.

Keywords

Social Development

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