The Sudanese government is providing micro-financing opportunities for women in the rural area of South Darfur via local banks.
Abdulkareem Musa is the vice-governor of the state and he mentioned that the government is focusing on putting funding into weak sectors of society to develop society at-large.
Two problems: one is that this is slightly misleading as the loans are coming about to the poor because of the action taken by a women’s union (which is great), but the fact that this funding, as far as I understood, isn’t specifically targeted for women is somewhat disappointing.
Second problem: shouldn’t the government be focusing on stopping violence in the region before parading through the streets with bags of money? Maybe they’re going for a stability approach like the Marshall Plan (throw money at them and they will invest their time into business, the economy grows and peace prevails), but that really is not what Darfur needs right now! But who am I to say how a state should spend effort to affect the economy?
(Image from Ashurooq)
Abdulkareem Musa is the vice-governor of the state and he mentioned that the government is focusing on putting funding into weak sectors of society to develop society at-large.
Two problems: one is that this is slightly misleading as the loans are coming about to the poor because of the action taken by a women’s union (which is great), but the fact that this funding, as far as I understood, isn’t specifically targeted for women is somewhat disappointing.
Second problem: shouldn’t the government be focusing on stopping violence in the region before parading through the streets with bags of money? Maybe they’re going for a stability approach like the Marshall Plan (throw money at them and they will invest their time into business, the economy grows and peace prevails), but that really is not what Darfur needs right now! But who am I to say how a state should spend effort to affect the economy?
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