The Nawi Knowledge Portal is an open access repository that features for multi themed research outputs and knowledge products. We aim to amplify the work of African women working to demystify the space of macroeconomic policy from a Pan African feminist to the widest possible audience. This information is provided for non-profit making purposes.
The Nawi Knowledge Portal is an open access repository that features for multi themed research outputs and knowledge products. We aim to amplify the work of African women working to demystify the space of macroeconomic policy from a Pan African feminist to the widest possible audience. This information is provided for non-profit making purposes.
Vulnerabilities of Feminist Engagement and the Challenge of Developmentalism in the South: What Alternatives?
Author: Josephine Ahikire
In the 1980s Marjorie Mbilinyi observed that women’s studies was simply catching up with the policy-oriented applied research (POAR) trends and reliance on external funding characteristic of social science in general in neocolonial Africa (1984: 291). In this observation, Mbilinyi sought to highlight the fact that the general roll-out of women’s studies at the time […]
Feb 19, 2008
Trade, Poverty And Women’s Economic Empowerment In Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Zo Randriamaro
This paper focuses on women’s economic empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa in relation to poverty and trade. By: Zo Randriamaro Read more
Feb 12, 2008
My cocoa is between my legs”: sex as working among Ghanaian women
Author: Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo
This book chapter is found in Women’s labor in the global economy : speaking in multiple voices. By: Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo Read more
Dec 16, 2007
Work as a duty and as a joy: understanding the role of work in the lives of Ghanaian female traders of global consumer items
Author: Prof. Akosua Darkwah
This book chapter is found in Women’s labor in the global economy : speaking in multiple voices. By: Prof. Akosua Darkwah Read more
Dec 16, 2007
Gender and Economic Growth Assessment for Ghana 2007
Author: Mary Agboli
A gender perspective on legal, institutional and administrative barriers to investment and economic growth in Ghana. By: Mary Agboli Read more
Aug 16, 2007
Gender issues in the multilateral trading system
Author: Mariama Williams
The World Trade Organization (WTO) sits at the pinnacle of the contemporary multilateral trading system.1 The WTO came into force in 1994 and began its oversight of the implementation of the Uruguay Round Agreements.2 Six ministerial meetings have been held (Singapore 1996; Geneva 1998; Seattle 1999; Doha 2001; Cancun 2003; and Hong Kong 2005). There […]
Aug 15, 2007
Access, control and ownership: Women and sustainable environmental management in Africa
Author: Patricia Kameri Mbote
This paper addresses concerns raised about women’s changing roles in the face of biotechnology innovation in agriculture, women perform many tasks associated with environmental management and play a major role in the agricultural sector which forms the economic mainstay of most African countries. Biotechnology innovation leading to production of seeds for planting and the undermining […]
Jul 16, 2007
Emerging production systems in conventional development: Experience of the jua kali economy in Kenya
Author: Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
This paper is focused on emergent production systems and how they are viewed by conventional development theory (CDT). The literature reveals that conventional development theory disregards the innovativeness, creativity, values, and philosophies of emergent production systems. CDT sees development occurring only when informality is or will be transformed. This paper gives examples of emergent production […]
Jun 16, 2007
Friend of Foe? The EPA unmasked
Author: Lebohang Pheko
This article discusses the real impact of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) on women and the failures of liberalization policies to examine and address the specific needs of women. By: Lebohang Pheko Read more
May 05, 2007
Gender equality and poverty in Ghana: implications for poverty reduction strategies
Author: Mariama Awumbila
The paper explores the gender dimensions of poverty in Ghana, and how gender inequalities are manifested and implicated in the reproduction of poverty. It also assesses the extent to which these have been taken into account in poverty reduction strategies and policies to enhance the situation of women. It concludes that if strategies to engender […]
Feb 14, 2007
