Publications

Anyidoho, N.A. (2020). Women, gender and development. In O. Yacob-Haliso and T. Falola (Eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Anyidoho, N. A. (2018).  The intersection of feminism, religion and development in the discourses of ‘gender workers’ in Ghana. In Nandini Deo (Ed.), Postsecular feminisms: religion and gender in transnational context (pp. 143-154). London: Bloomsbury.

Anyidoho, N.A. (2017). Making sense of participation. In G. Owusu, R.D. Osei & F.A. Asante (Eds.), Contemporary issues in development policy and practice in Ghana: a reader. Accra: University of Ghana/Sub-Saharan Publishers.

Anyidoho, N. A. (2012). On whose terms? Negotiating participatory development in a fluid policy landscape. In H. Lauer & K. Anyidoho (Eds.), Reclaiming the Social Sciences and Humanities through African Perspectives.

Anyidoho, N. A. (2010). Theorising the intersection of public policy and personal lives through the lens of ‘participation’, Africa Development, 25(3), 1-11.

Anyidoho, N.A. (2010). ‘Communities of practice’: Prospects for theory and action in participatory development. Development in Practice, 20(3), 318-328.

Anyidoho, N. A. (2003). Educational language policy in Ghana: Inserting the global into the local. International Journal of Learning, 10, 2983-2988.

Anyidoho, N. A. & Asante, K. (2008). Truly national? Social inclusion and the Ghana@50 celebrations. Ghana Studies, 11, 139-173.

Anyidoho, N.A., Kayuni, H., Ndungu, J., Leavy, J., Sall, M., Tadele, G. & Sumberg, S. (2012). Young people and policy narratives in sub-Saharan Africa. FAC Working paper 032. Brighton, UK: Future Agricultures Consortium, Institute of Development Studies. Available at www.futureagricultures.com

Anyidoho, N.A. & Manuh. T. (2010). Discourses of women’s empowerment in Ghana. Development, 53(2), 267-273.

Cornwall, A. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2010). Women’s empowerment: contentions and contestations. Development, 53(2), 144-149.

Manuh, T. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2015). To Beijing and back: Reflections on the influence of the Beijing Conference on popular notions of women’s empowerment in Ghana. IDS Bulletin, 46(4), 19-27.

Manuh, T., Anyidoho, N. A. & Phobee-Hayford, F. (2013). “Just a femocrat doing my job”: Working within the state to advance women’s empowerment in Ghana. In R. Eyben & L. Turquet (Eds.), Feminists in development organizations: changes from the margins. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing.

Sarpong, D. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2012). Climate change and agricultural policy processes in Ghana. FAC Working Paper 45. Brighton, UK: Future Agricultures Consortium, Institute of Development Studies. Available at www.futureagricultures.com. 

Ajayi, K. and Anyidoho, N.A. (2021).  Self-employment preferences among university graduates in Ghana: goes gender make a difference?  Development Policy Review. DOI:  10.1111/dpr.12562

Anyidoho, N.A. (2020).  Skills or credentials: comparing the perspectives of degree- and non-degree-holding graduates on the value of higher education  Journal of Higher Education in Africa, 18(1), 67-91

Yeboah, T., John, I., Chigumira, E., Anyidoho, N. A., Manyong, V., Flynn, J. & Sumberg, J. (2020).  Hard work and hazard: young people and agricultural commercialisation in Africa. Journal of Rural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.04.027

Ajayi, K., & Anyidoho, N. A. (2017). Explaining gender differences in preference for self-employment among tertiary graduates in Ghana. WIDER Working Paper 2017/147. Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER.  Available at https://www.unu-wider.edu

Sumberg, J., Yeboah, T., Flynn, J. and Anyidoho, N.A. (2017). Young people’s perspectives on farming in Ghana: a Q study. Food Security. DOI 10.1007/s12571-016-0646-y

Yeboah, T., Sumberg, J., Flynn, J. and Anyidoho, N.A. (2016). What is a desirable job? What makes a job desirable? Findings from a Q study with students and parents in rural Ghana.  European Journal of Development Research. doi:10.1057/s41287-016-0006-y

Sumberg, J., Anyidoho, N.A., Chasukwa, M., Chinsinga, B., Leavy, J., Tadele, G., Whitfield, S. & Yaro, J. (2015). Young people, agriculture, and employment in rural Africa.  In D. Resnick & Thurlow, J. (Eds.), African youth and the persistence of marginalization: employment, politics, and prospects for change.  New York: Routledge.

Sumberg, J., Yeboah, T., Flynn, J. & Anyidoho, N. A. (2015). Perspectives on jobs and farming: findings from a Q study with young people, parents and development workers in rural Ghana. FAC Working Paper 109. Brighton, UK: Future Agricultures Consortium, Institute of Development Studies. Available at www.futureagricultures.com

Anyidoho, N.A., Kayuni, H., Ndungu, J., Leavy, J., Sall, M., Tadele, G. & Sumberg, S. (2012). Young people and policy narratives in sub-Saharan Africa. FAC Working paper 032. Brighton, UK: Future Agricultures Consortium, Institute of Development Studies. Available at www.futureagricultures.com

Anyidoho, N.A., Leavy, J. & Asenso-Okyere, K. (2012). Perceptions and aspirations: A case study of young people in Ghana’s cocoa sector. IDS Bulletin, 43 (6), 20-32.

McAdams, D., Bauer, J. J., Sakaeda, A., Anyidoho, N. A., Machado, M. A., Magrino-Failla, K., White, K. W. & Pals, J. L. (2006). Continuity and change in the life story:  A longitudinal study of autobiographical memories in emerging adulthood. Journal of Personality, 74(5), 1371-1400(30). 

Anyidoho, N. A. (2020).  Women, gender and development in Africa. In O. Yacob-Yaliso  & T. Falola (Eds.),  The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook of African Women's Studies. London: Palgrave Macmillan Cham.

Anyidoho, N.A., Crawford, G. and Medie, P. (2020). The role of civil society actors in the implementation of gender-based violence laws: The Domestic Violence Coalition and the Domestic Violence Act in Ghana. Politics & Gender.

Anyidoho, N. A. (2018).  The Intersection of feminism, religion and development in the discourses of ‘gender workers’ in Ghana. In Nandini Deo (Ed.), Postsecular feminisms: religion and gender in transnational context (pp. 143-154). London: Bloomsbury.

Anyidoho, N.A. & Gariba, S. (2016).  An analytical paper on monitoring, evaluation and learning from collective action movements in Africa. [Analytical report for Rockefeller Foundation with the Institute for Policy Alternatives]

Anyidoho, N.A. & Crawford, G. (2014).  Leveraging global links for local advocacy: WACAM’s challenge to the power of transnational mining corporations. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 35(4), 483-502.  

Aberese, M., Anyidoho, N.A. & Crawford, G. (2013).  NGOs, rights-based approaches and the potential for progressive development in local contexts: constraints and challenges in northern Ghana. Journal of Human Rights Practice. 5(1), 46-74

Crawford, G. & Anyidoho, N.A. (2013). Ghana: Struggles for rights in a democratising context. In B. A. Andreassen & G. Crawford (eds.), Human rights, power and civic action: comparative analyses of struggles for rights in developing societies. London: Routledge.

Anyidoho, N.A., Gallien, M., Ismail, G., Juergens- Grant, F., Rogan, M. and van den Boogaard, V. (2023).   [Mobile Money Taxation and Informal Workers: Evidence from Ghana’s E-levy. Development Policy Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12704.


Anyidoho, N. A. (2018)  [Review of the book Women and the informal economy in urban Africa: from the margins to the centre, by Mary N. Kinyanjui]. African Review of Economics and Finance, 11(1), 252-256.



Anyidoho, N. A., & Adomako Ampofo, A. (2017). Informalising the formal: the conditions of female agency workers in Ghana's banking sector. Contemporary Journal of African Studies, 4(2), 67-92



Anyidoho, N.A. & Adomako Ampofo, A. (2015). “How can I come to work on Saturday when I have a family?”:  Ghanaian women and bank work in a neo-liberal era.  In C. Rodriguez, D. Tsikata & A. Adomako Ampofo (Eds.), Transatlantic feminisms: women and Gender Studies in Africa and the diaspora. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.



Anyidoho, N. A. (2013). Informal Economy Monitoring Study: Accra City Report. Manchester, UK: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). Available at www.wiego.org



Anyidoho, N.A. & Steel, W.F. (2016). Informal-formal linkages in market and street trading in Accra. African Review of Economics and Finance, 8(2), 171-200. 



Anyidoho, N.A. & Steel, W.F. (2015). Perceptions of costs and benefits of informal-formal linkages: Market and street vendors in Accra, Ghana. WIEGO Working Paper 35.  Cambridge, MA: Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). Available at www.wiego.org



Butler, L.M., Kobati, G.Y., Anyidoho, N.A, Colecraft, E.K., Marquis, G.S. & Sakyi-Dawson, O. (2012). Microcredit-Education: A case study analysis of Ghanaian women’s experiences with income generation and family care. African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 21(1), 5709-5724.