Constraints to Rural Women’s Participation in International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)/Community Based Agricultural and Rural Development Programme (CBARDP) in Kebbi State,

Abstract- This study examined rural women’s constraints to participation in IFAD/CBARDP on poverty reduction in Kebbi State Nigeria. Multi-stage random sampling technique was used to select a total of one hundred and (120) beneficiaries (Rural Women). Interview schedule was the main tool used for data collection while descriptive statistics (frequency distribution and percentages) were used to analyse the data. The result showed that the mean age of the respondents was 40 years, 69 % were married, the average household size of the beneficiaries was 10 persons, 95 % of the beneficiaries did not have formal education, 62 % of the beneficiaries were into trading as their major occupation, the average farm size of those involved in farming as their occupation was 0.225 hectares and the average amount of years spent in the programme was 5 years. While 28 % of the beneficiaries had no problem during participation, inadequate cash was the major constraint of 14 % of those beneficiaries that had problem during the programme. It could be concluded that majority of the respondents have not encountered any constraint in the course of their participation in the programme. For those respondents that reported inadequate cash to be their constraint, provision of adequate cash with proper monitoring mechanism should be put in place for effective participation of rural women in the programme