Women Entrepreneurship And Its Effects On Households Livelihoods Evidence From Melka Nonnoo Sub City Oromia, Ethiopia

Abstract

This study Analyzed How women entrepreneurship Effects households’ livelihoods through their ability of competitiveness, innovativeness and risk-taking activities by creating their own entrepreneurships in case of Melka Noonnoo Sub city, Oromia, Ethiopia. The study performed by using Descriptive and Cross-sectional research design. To reach on the purpose, stratified simple random sampling methodology was used to select representatives from total population. Primary data was collected from Select respondents through semi-structured survey questionnaire (Annex), key informant interviews and focus group discussion guides (Annex) ,whereas secondary data was collected from different published and unpublished sources. Analysis of data was performed by using descriptive statistics in the form of counts and percentages. A multiple linear regression analysis was carried out to assess the strength and interdependence of the independent and dependent variables. The findings indicate that, 22.4% of household’s livelihoods improvement can be explained by risk taking ,implies that risk taking has positive effect and statistically significant on predicting households livelihoods improvement.IN addition 36.5% of improvement in households livelihoods was due to Competitiveness, 30.7% of Improvement in households livelihoods was due to Innovativeness & both variables has positive effect and statistically significant on predicting households livelihoods improvement. The correlation between the overall independent variable and Households livelihoods improvement was strong with a coefficient of r=0.773 and based on the regression analysis 59.7% of the improvement in households livelihoods was influenced by women entrepreneurships. Therefore the researcher recommends that: Women entrepreneurs in Sheger city, Melka Nonnoo sub city should engage in more risk taking endeavors as that will improve their ability to create more businesses which would help improve job creation and ultimately improve their income and at the end resulted in household’s livelihoods improvement in the area. Women entrepreneurs in area should engage in training to sharpen their competitiveness abilities & should be more innovative as this will allow them to come up with new ideas in process and product innovations