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Examines the meaning and practice of participation in income-generating programmes for women in Ghana, considering how women engage with programme activities and the extent to which participation translates into greater influence, choice and control over development processes.

Examines how a poverty reduction project in Ghana’s Afram Plains was understood and experienced in practice, focusing on the relationship between development policy, programme implementation and the perspectives of participating communities.

Examines how development policy is understood and experienced in practice through a poverty reduction project in Ghana, focusing on the relationship between programme objectives, implementation and the perspectives of intended beneficiaries.

Examines the tensions between dependence on external assistance and expectations of individual or community self-effort in development, considering how people interpret responsibility, support and participation within development programmes.

Examines the relationship between income-generating programmes and women’s empowerment, questioning whether programme goals and development discourse are reflected in women’s actual experiences, choices and control over resources.