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.
Land and the Economic Empowerment of Women: A Gendered Analysis
Author: Rudo Gaidzanwa
This paper focuses on the gender dimension of the land and indigenization debate in order to illustrate the problems relating to aggregated claims to land rights, as well as the potential and actual threats to sustainability, efficiency, and productivity which such analyses pose for the livelihood of poor rural and urban women in Zimbabwe. By: […]
Sep 16, 1995
Background paper on gender issues in Ghana
Author: Naana Otoo-Oyortey & Others
This report was prepared for the West and North Africa Department, Department for Overseas Development (DFID), UK with the objective of providing a gender analysis summarising the comparative situation of women in Ghana, with particular reference to their social, economic, legal and political status. By: Naana Otoo-Oyortey & Others Read more
Dec 16, 1994
The institutional factors that influence women’s agricultural productivity : the case of Igbo women of South-Eastern Nigeria
Author: Agatha Ifeyinwa Nnazor
This thesis examines the role of women in agricultural development and identifies the institutional factors (access to land; credit; machines, improved seedlings and fertilizer; extension services; cooperative facilities) that constitute a hindrance to their agricultural productivity. By: Agatha Ifeyinwa Nnazor Read more
Oct 16, 1993
Ghana: Women in the public and informal sectors under the economic recovery programme
Author: Takyiwaa Manuh
This case study was part of a book that explored the impact on Third World women of the stringent economic prescriptions of the World Bank and IMF. Introductory chapters explain in non-jargonistic terms exactly what structural adjustment is. These are followed by feminist critiques of its implications, and then a series of carefully chosen case […]
Aug 16, 1993
Rural, woman’s Contribution to Economic Development
Author: Wanjiku Kabira
This paper focused on action-oriented research to highlight women’s economic contribution and their decision-making roles By: Wanjiku Kabira Read more
Dec 16, 1986
