The Role of LMRP Interventions in the Environmental Empowerment of Rural Women, North Kordofan, Sudan (2017-2022)
This study aimed to stand up on the role of the program in empowering rural women through the environmental interventions, to present applicable and scientific visions that can contribute in the environmental empowerment of rural women, in addition to drawing the attention of the stakeholders in the public and private sectors towards rural women issues. The study followed the Integrated Geographical Vision approach for hypothesis discussion. Data was collected by using the primary resources as questionnaires, in addition to interview, observation, and focus group discussion, beside the secondary resources. The sample size was 204 respondents selected using simple random sampling technique. The Statistical Package for Social Science program (SPSS) was used for the data analysis. The study results revealed that: 53.9% from the respondents had received training on the environmental activities including: Water, LPG, forests, and rangelands, while all respondents (100%) ensured that capacity building processes led to increasing their skills and raising their awareness towards the environmental issues, and that could be expressed by their selection criteria of the environmental activities including: Associated with neediness represented (52.7%), reduce environmental risk represented (25.5%), reduce family’s disbursement represented (12.7%), and diversification of the income (9.1%), and that indicated the program managed to empower beneficiaries environmentally. The study revealed that the main challenges faced rural women’s empowerments were: Decreased financial services access represented (84.8%), decreased access to solar energy and LPG services represented (9.3%), domination of man represented (4.9%), in addition to increased illiteracy rates among women represented (1.0%). The study recommended for the necessity of increasing training opportunities, financial access, in addition to facilitating the engagement of women in the environmentally friendly activities such as solar energy and LPG activities, besides establishing gas exchange centers at village’s levels.
Keywords: Women’s Empowerment, Developmental Interventions. LMRP, North Kordofan State (NKS).
