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The study was carried out at Vision Fund Tanzania, Morogoro branch. This study
explored the contributions of women‘s income generating activities on household access
to health services in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania. Specifically, the study sought to
identify types and ways of women‘s income generating activities done, to find out the
causes of women‘s income generating activities, and to determine the contributions of
women‘s income generating activities on household access health services.
The main objective of the study was exploring the contributions of women‘s income
generating activities on household access to health services. Both primary and secondary
data were used. The former used questionnaire, interviews and observation while the
latter used document reviews.
Simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select respondents for
data collection. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected, collected data were
edited (purified) and coded. Descriptive analysis dominated where frequencies and
percentages were computed where possible content analysis was also affected, SSPS
facilitated in the analysis process. Sample size was 100 respondents including four staffs
and 96 clients from Vision Fund Tanzania.
This study found that there were six major types of women‘s income generating
activities namely small business, farming, livestock keeping, food business, farming
product business and clothes business. It was also found that there were six causes of
women‘s income generating activities. These are; reducing the much dependable to
husband, reducing family economy challenges, presence of gender equality and equity,
make life improvement, increase the cooperation with community and Education of IGA
presence in globally.
It was found that there were three contributions of women‘s income generating activities
on household access to health services. These are personal access to health services,
family access to health services and community access to health services. This study
concluded that women‘s income generating activities crosscut in all levels of society
including personal, family and community.
Therefore, this study recommends that deliberate efforts to improve women‘s income
generating activities for household access to health services. Also the in-service training
and review of microfinance policy should be undertaken in order to improve women‘s
income generating activities and thus high household access to health services.
Furthermore the government should provide enough funds to the microfinance firms in
order to enhance effective women‘s income generating activities for household access to
health services. |
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