Enhancing rural Ghanaian women’s economic empowerment: the cassava dough enterprise

IF 1 Q4 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Development in Practice Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI:10.1080/09614524.2023.2272058

Peter Asare-Nuamah, Daniella Delali Sedegah, Mavis Anane-Aboagye, Emelia Amoako Asiedu, Rosemary Anderson Akolaa

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ABSTRACTGrounded in a qualitative case study design and relying on key informant interviews and focus group discussion, this study assesses the influence of the cassava dough enterprise on women’s economic empowerment in a rural Ghanaian community. Women in the study community are marginalised in accessing arable land, which is a critical livelihood asset. Cassava dough processing, which is a women-dominated activity, has become an alternative and lucrative business for women. Women's engagement in cassava dough processing is driven by myriad factors that are rooted in their sociocultural settings and gender norms. Women engaged in cassava dough processing and sales have enhanced their economic empowerment through increased access to regular income, improved financial autonomy and saving behaviour, and contributed to community development. The study recommends the need to prioritise policies, programs, and interventions that create an enabling environment for community-based women’s economic empowerment strategies in poor and vulnerable communities.KEYWORDS: Gender empowermentrural economic developmentlivelihoodsself-managed businessGhana Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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加强加纳农村妇女的经济赋权:木薯面团企业

摘要本研究以定性案例研究设计为基础，依托关键信息访谈和焦点小组讨论，评估了木薯面团企业对加纳农村社区妇女经济赋权的影响。学习群体中的妇女在获得可耕地方面被边缘化，而可耕地是一项重要的生计资产。木薯面团加工，这是一项以女性为主的活动，已经成为女性的另一种有利可图的业务。妇女参与木薯面团加工受到植根于其社会文化环境和性别规范的无数因素的推动。从事木薯面团加工和销售的妇女通过增加获得固定收入的机会、改善财务自主权和储蓄行为，增强了她们的经济赋权，并为社区发展做出了贡献。该研究建议，需要优先考虑为贫困和弱势社区的社区妇女经济赋权战略创造有利环境的政策、方案和干预措施。关键词:性别赋权、经济发展、生计、自主经营企业加纳披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。

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Development in Practice DEVELOPMENT STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Gain free access to articles published in the special issue on Citizen"s Media and communication, and watch videos from Conversations with the Earth an indigenous-led multimedia campaign exhibiting at COP15 in Copenhagen. Development in Practice offers practice-based analysis and research relating to development and humanitarianism providing a worldwide forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences among practitioners, scholars, policy shapers, and activists. By challenging current assumptions, and by active editorial engagement with issues of diversity and social justice, the journal seeks to stimulate new thinking and ways of working.