ON PAPER, the Targeted Intervention Programme for Employment and Economic Growth (Tipeeg), a state-led scheme to reduce the country’s high unemployment rate, makes the case for a gender-neutral intervention that has all the necessary ingredients for providing employment opportunities to both women and men.
A closer look, however, reveals that this intervention is nothing but a male-dominated programme that leaves out women, especially rural women.
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