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What does empowerment mean to women in northern Ghana? Insights from research around a small-scale irrigation intervention

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Title What does empowerment mean to women in northern Ghana? Insights from research around a small-scale irrigation intervention
 
Creator Bryan, Elisabeth
Garner, Elisabeth
 
Subject empowerment
women
gender equity
farmers
qualitative analysis
technology
 
Description Women’s empowerment is important to improve the status of women and achieve greater gender equity. It is also an important vehicle for achieving other development goals related to food security, nutrition, health, and economic growth. Increasingly, researchers seek ways to measure women’s empowerment, trace the pathways through which women’s empowerment is achieved, and provide guidance for policymakers and practitioners aiming to facilitate women’s empowerment through their interventions. This paper explores local perceptions of empowerment in the Upper East Region of Ghana in the context of a small-scale irrigation intervention targeted to men and women farmers. Using data collected through qualitative interviews and focus groups, the paper traces the linkages between small-scale irrigation and aspects of women’s empowerment, identified as important to men and women farmers themselves. The relationship between the components of empowerment and small-scale irrigation are placed within a larger context of social change underlying these relationships. Finally, this paper explores the ways that the introduction of modern technologies for small-scale irrigation may contribute to women’s empowerment.
 
Date 2020
2020-12-14T11:02:20Z
2020-12-14T11:02:20Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Bryan, Elizabeth; Garner, Elisabeth. 2020. What does empowerment mean to women in northern Ghana? Insights from research around a small-scale irrigation intervention. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1909. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133596
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110501
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/what-does-empowerment-mean-women-northern-ghana-insights-research-around-small-scale
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133596
Land and Water Solutions
 
Language en
 
Relation IFPRI Discussion Paper
 
Rights Copyrighted; all rights reserved
Open Access
 
Format 51p.
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute