PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF WOMEN FOR WOMEN PROJECT OF CARE ETHIOPIA. THE CASE OF LEDETA SUB –CITY, ADDIS ABABA

Abstract

The study sought to examine performance evaluation of Women for Women project of Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) Ethiopia, which was encompassed with the aspects that are showcasing result oriented criteria, relevance centered to target group of women of low income and need to empower and inspire these women into entrepreneurship skill development through trainings offered by CARE project titled Giving Together for Strengthening Women: “Women for Women”: Creating Opportunities for Women in enterprise development in Addis Ababa, sustainability criteria pointing out duration of the businesses through the Village saving group association , effectiveness of the project increased the income of the beneficiaries and access to capital, efficiency highlighting aspect of time management balanced at household and businesses of beneficiaries, the research examined how the beneficiaries have benefited from the project since its establishment in 2016-2018 achieving this study through use of secondary and primary data collection methods with sample size of 130 beneficiaries, that depicted the central success of project. Thus, this research undertaken found out that, women access to financial services are deeply rooted into granting them opportunities to loans and saving group associations, However, monitoring aspect should be deployed to completely help evaluate and track the progress of these initiatives of women for women project.