THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF SOLAR POWERED WATER LIFTING TECHNOLOGY FOR WOMEN: IN THE CASE OF DANGILA DISTRICT, AMHARA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA

Meseret, Cherie

dc.contributor.author	Meseret, Cherie
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-21T05:00:16Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-21T05:00:16Z
dc.date.issued	2019-10-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9953
dc.description.abstract	Bahir Dar University institute of Technology (BiT) in collaboration with Feed the future Appropriate Scale Mechanization project (ASMP) supplied solar powered water lifting technologies (SPWLT) for Dangila district, Dangesheta Kebele women small holder farmers. Like other areas, water is women’s issue in this district, and they are lifting and fetching water in a traditional way. So, this SPWLT has considerable benefits for women in multi dimensions and it has its own challenges. However, little has known so far about the benefits and challenges of SPWLT for women in Ethiopia. Taking into account this knowledge gap, this study tried to explore the benefits and challenges of solar powered water lifting technology for women. To achieve the proposed objective, qualitative research approach with case study design was employed. Purposive and availability sampling technique was used to select the study site and participants. The data were extracted through semi structured interview, key informant interview and focus group discussion from the target group and the data were analyzed via qualitative data analysis technique. The study found out that time saving, work burden reduction, health improvement are the main benefits that women gained as a result of the supply of SPWLT, getting additional food/nutrition and income is the other benefit in relation to household welfare. In addition, this study revealed that affordability, inaccessibility, shortage of water source in the dry season, absence of energy storing mechanism are the main challenges that the women are facing while using this technology and potential hindering factors for sustainability. Generally, this study found out that the supply of SPWLT benefited women to save their time, reduce their work burden and to improve their health condition and this benefit has a direct effect on women to divert their unproductive tasks into income generating activities, availability of additional food item for the family, better child care and general improvement in the wellbeing of the whole family. Finally, the study recommended that BiT together with its stakeholders shall promote this technology to manufacture it locally so that it will be available for women with affordable price. Key words: - Benefit, Challenge, Dangila district, Women, Solar Powered Water Lifting	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	GENDER AND DEVEOPMENT	en_US
dc.title	THE BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES OF SOLAR POWERED WATER LIFTING TECHNOLOGY FOR WOMEN: IN THE CASE OF DANGILA DISTRICT, AMHARA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US