The Dynamics of Gender: A Grassroots Perspective on Economic Resilience and Empowerment of the Tonga People in Kariba

Abstract

This paper examines the dynamics of gender-differentiated effects of economic resilience on rural livelihoods and infrastructure improvements of the Tonga people who predominantly resides in North Western Zimbabwe. The paper interrogates men and women’s empowerment as well as their roles of transforming their lives through engaging in various economic activities and infrastructural development in Mola, Nyaminyami District, Zimbabwe. This study uses a qualitative research approach which is backed by both primary and secondary data collection methods which are underpinned by mixed methods approach involving observation, focus group discussions with community members and in-depth interviews with community leaders and key stakeholders. The study proffers that while economic resilience affects both men and women, it disproportionately affects the amount of work women have to do which has a profound bearing on their ability to innovate and transform their obsolete infrastructure at their disposal. Hence, the study recommends ways to foreground gender mainstreaming in order to address emerging gender related challenges emanating from stereotyping and prejudice, stakeholder engagement and partnerships in revamping existing infrastructure.

Poverty of Women and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

“…The basic needs include food needs, drinking needs, safety needs and also related to various health facilities, environmental cleanliness, housing needs, education and information.The pressures of poverty are experienced very differently by men and women. Men have experienced a threat to their social status, self-respect, and assurance in their economic role as providers for their family, through the loss of their cattle and through increased dependence on the informal earnings of their wife to meet basic household needs ~WHO (Monga et al, 2019…”

“…The pressures of poverty are experienced very differently by men and women. Men have experienced a threat to their social status, self-respect, and assurance in their economic role as providers for their family, through the loss of their cattle and through increased dependence on the informal earnings of their wife to meet basic household needs ~WHO (Monga et al, 2019…”