Corridor benefit to little people is questioned

Show that applying a gender perspective to economic reporting helps to illuminate many other important issues, such as the extent to which small enterprise benefits from such projects.    

 

Use the case study to draw up a matrix of who has benefited and who has not in this major infrastructure project. For example, women have not been allowed to sell their fruit alongside the corridor; the contractors are all men etc. By and large the main beneficiaries are big business, and there has not been sufficient emphasis on SMME development. Discuss policy measures that could have been used to avoid this, eg quotas, and specific targets for involvement by women. How would this have made a difference? 

Ask participants to think of any large project taking place in the country and to do a gender analysis of this. Who are the winners and losers? In what ways do women benefit? What policy measures could be put in place to ensure that small enterprises, and especially women-owned enterprises, benefit more?

 

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