Publications

Examines the opportunities and limitations of rights-based development approaches through a case study of a local NGO working with disadvantaged communities in northern Ghana.

Examines how WACAM combined local mobilisation with national and international alliances to challenge the power of transnational gold mining corporations in Ghana.

Examines how monitoring, evaluation and learning can be adapted to the dynamic nature of collective action movements in Africa and their efforts to influence governance, accountability and social change.

Explores how feminist development practitioners in Ghana negotiate the relationships between feminism, Christian faith and gender-focused development work.

Explores the central role of gender relations in development, examining gender ideologies, divisions of labour, unequal power relationships and approaches to gender-responsive development.

Examines Ghana’s Domestic Violence Coalition and the challenges women’s movements face in moving from successful advocacy for gender-based violence laws to their effective implementation.

Examines continuity and developmental change in young adults’ autobiographical life stories, focusing on emotional tone, personal growth, agency and narrative complexity over time.

Examines how combining microcredit with entrepreneurship and nutrition education affected Ghanaian women’s businesses, family responsibilities and household nutrition.

Examines how young people’s backgrounds and experiences in Ghana’s cocoa sector shape their aspirations and expectations about farming and future livelihoods.

Both agriculture and young people are high on African development agendas. African governments, through the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme, (CAADP) have agreed to commit at least ten percent of their budgets to agriculture with the goal of a six percent growth in the sector. By the end of 2010, 22 governments had prepared and […]

Explores how young people, parents and development workers in rural Ghana understand desirable work, farming and the role agriculture should play in young people’s livelihoods.

Examines the role of agriculture in addressing youth employment in rural Africa and argues for more realistic, context-sensitive policies that recognise the diversity of young people and rural livelihoods.

Examines how young people in Ghana perceive farming and the extent to which their views align with policy assumptions about agriculture as a solution to youth employment.

Examines why male and female tertiary graduates in Ghana differ in their preferences for self-employment, with attention to education, work experience and other background factors.

Explores how young people build livelihoods in commercially transforming rural economies in Ghana, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, highlighting both emerging opportunities and persistent risks.

Examines how Ghanaian graduates understand the value of higher education, comparing the importance they place on acquiring practical skills and obtaining academic credentials.

Examines gender differences in self-employment preferences among university graduates in Ghana and the factors shaping young women’s and men’s employment choices.

Examines how Ghana’s E-levy affected mobile money use and the experiences of informal workers.