Human Capital Deprivation and Its Contribution to Multidimensional Poverty: Access through Rural Organisations in Nyakagabagaba, South-Western Uganda

Abstract

This study elaborates how human capital deprivation contributes to the overall multidimensional poverty in Nyakagabagaba and how rural dwellers in the study area belonging to rural organisations (members) access or accumulate human capital desired for their livelihood through the cooperatives and associations they belong to while nonmembers gain access to the needed human capital components through the spillover effects created by rural organisations' function, purposes and services provided. The relationship between perceived rural organisation influence in access to human capital component and the condition (deprived or nondeprived) of human capital components is studied to establish the significance of rural organisations in accessing or accumulating on the components of human capital. Findings show that rural organisations enhance access to human capital, deprivation of which contributes to multidimensional poverty.

Keywords:Rural organisations; human capital; multidimensional poverty; livelihoods; cooperatives; associations