Findings on Bank Workers
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Presents findings on women’s employment in Ghana’s banking sector, highlighting changing employment arrangements, the growth of agency work and the implications of increasingly informalised working conditions for women workers.
Rights, Power and Civic Action – Findings from Ghana Study
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Presents findings from the Ghana study on rights, power and civic action, examining how civil society actors mobilise around rights claims and negotiate relationships of power in efforts to influence social and political change.
Taking the Lead? A Study of Discourses and Practices on Women’s Empowerment by Ghana’s MOWAC
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Examines the discourses and practices surrounding women’s empowerment within Ghana’s Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWAC), considering how empowerment is understood, translated into policy and reflected in institutional practice.
Mapping Sustainable Production in the Cocoa Sector
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Examines sustainable production in Ghana’s cocoa sector, focusing on the economic and social conditions shaping cocoa production, the livelihoods of producers and workers, and the challenges involved in promoting more sustainable practices within the cocoa value chain.
Social Protection for Migrant Labour in the Ghanaian Pineapple Sector
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
Examines the social protection needs and vulnerabilities of migrant labour in Ghana’s pineapple sector, focusing on employment conditions, livelihood risks and the forms of support available to migrant workers within export-oriented agriculture.
Women’s Empowerment Through Income-Generating Programs: Discourse and Reality
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
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.
“Come to Our Aid”: Making Sense of Tensions Between Dependence and Self-Effort in the Dynamics of Development
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
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.
Making Sense of Development Policy: A Study of a Poverty Reduction Project in Ghana
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
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.
Making Sense of Development Policy: A Study with a Poverty Reduction Project in Afram Plains
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
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.
Examining “Participation” in Income-Generating Programs for Women in Ghana
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Seminar and Workshop Presentations
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.