Assessment Of Functional Literacy Programmes For Women Empowerment In Cross River State, Nigeria

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Assessment Of Functional Literacy Programmes For Women Empowerment In Cross River State, Nigeria

 

Abstract

The study was conducted to evaluate Cross River State, Nigeria’s literacy initiatives’ effectiveness for women’s emancipation. When doing the research, three

To direct the investigation, three null hypotheses and research questions were devised. The much

conducted study using survey research methodology. The Population of the study comprises of

19,256 women that registered in functional literacy initiatives in Cross River State.

The sample of the study was 750 women. The device for data collecting was a 32-

piece structured questionnaire titled: Assessment of Functional Literacy Programmes

for Women Empowerment in Cross River State Questionnaire (AFLPWECRSQ). The

tool for the study was face validated by three specialists. The internal consistency

of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha reliability technique whereby

produced correlations of 0.65 for vocational skills, 0.59 for fundamental health behaviours and

0.65 for ICT skills for empowering women. The data for the study were acquired with

the support of 9 research assistants. The 721 copies of the questionnaire administered to

the replies, were totally filled and retrieved showing 100 % rate of

return. The data collected were evaluated using mean and standard deviation for

answering the study questions whereas t-test statistics was employed to test the null

hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Based on the data analysed, the study found

essential vocational skills, fundamental health practices and Information and Communication

Technology (ICT) skills are to a lesser level supplied in the vocational institutions for

empowering the women in Cross River State. There were significant (p<0.05)

variations in the mean scores of the responses of urban and rural women on 16 out

of the 32 items whilst there were no significant (p<0.05) differences on the

remaining 16 items. Based on the following findings, the study among others

stated that ggovernment should improve the physical, infrastructural and

organizational norms of vocational institutions for women empowerment through

greater funding, enhance involvement of international donor agencies in the health

intervention strategies for enhanced health care for women and that women

should be encouraged to create cooperative groups so that they can be trained and

empowered as a group with necessary occupational, health and ICT skills for productive

living.

 

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