Building Gender Sensitive Resilience Through Women's Economic Empowerment: Lessons learned from pastoralist women in Ethiopia
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Guixe, ImmaPublication date
2015-11-30Keywords
Economic empowermentPastoralism
Women farmers
Resilience
Women's Economic Leadership
WEL
Agriculture
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Ethiopia
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Oxfam AmericaSeries
Oxfam Intersectionality SeriesDocument type
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In addition to ethnicity, age, or disability, gender in the Somali region of Ethiopia strongly intersects with pastoralism, a predominant livelihood in East Africa and the Horn.
This paper explores how the overlap of a double marginalized identity produces particular disadvantages for pastoralist women in Ethiopia, and how an Oxfam intervention in the Somali region is addressing the connection between these disadvantages and poverty and power.