Women and men in agricultural development: the case of the women in irrigated agriculture project in the Southern highlands of Tanzania
Gillings, S.L / 1992

The Women in Irrigated Agriculture (WJA) project was set up to address gender issues in the Usangu Village Irrigation Project in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. This paper describes the objectives of the WIA project, and discusses the findings of surveys that investigated differences in the responsibilities, rights, decision-making and benefits obtained by men and women in the irrigation project, and the nutritional status of their children. The activities undertaken by WIA project staff to address the issues that emerged from these surveys are reported, and the plans to integrate these activities into other irrigation programmes when the WIA project is phased out are described