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Examined how women’s empowerment was understood and promoted by government institutions, development agencies and practitioners in Ghana, with particular attention to policy discourses, institutional practice and the strategies used to advance gender equality.

Examined changes in women’s work in Ghana’s formal and informal sectors, focusing on banking and paid domestic work and the implications of changing employment conditions for women’s livelihoods and security.

Examined the roles, representations and public perceptions of women in contemporary Ghana through a combination of desk research and primary data collection, covering women’s socio-economic participation, media representation and gendered social norms.

Examines young women’s experiences of platform work in Ghana and explores how the increasing digitisation of work affects women’s livelihoods, working conditions and opportunities for economic empowerment.

Explores changing barriers to the adoption and use of digital technologies in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular attention to emerging “after-access” challenges and the evidence needed for context-specific policy and regulatory responses.