West Africa Hub
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The West Africa Hub is based at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, University of Ghana.
Convenor: Takyiwaa Manuh
Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA)
University of Ghana
P.O.Box LG 73
Legon, Accra
Ghana
Website: http://cegensa.ug.edu.gh/
See also http://www.pathwaysghana.blogspot.com/ for news from the Team
Team Members:
Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Akofa Anyidoho (Programme Administration and Communications)
Nana Akua Anyidoho
Awo Mana Asiedu
Akosua Darkwah
Dzodzi Tsikata
Partners:
Initiative for Women’s Studies in Nigeria
Charmaine Pereira
Irene Pogoson
Bibi Bakare Yusuf
University of Sierra Leone
Aisha Fofana Ibrahim
Jamesina King
Hussainatu Abdullah (Independent Researcher based in Dakar)
Research
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This research strategy focuses on three Anglophone West African countries (Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone) that share significant cultural commonalities, yet have markedly different contemporary histories. Research takes as its starting point the dissonance between narratives of women’s empowerment that drive international development policy and women’s lived experience in this region.
The hub works with popular culture, policy makers and women themselves to identify and track conceptions of empowerment through policies to beneficiaries, exploring how projects generated by particular conceptions of empowerment play out in practice.
Changes and Continuities in Women's Everyday Lives in Ghana
Changing Representations of Women in Popular Culture in Ghana
Dialogue with Selected Women District Assembly Members in Ghana
Discourses on Women's Empowerment in Sierra Leone
Interrogating Policy Discourses and Practice on Women's Empowerment in Ghana
Measuring the Implementation of UN Resolution 1325
Mobilising Resources for Women's Organisations
Changing Narratives of Sexuality in Nigeria: Anita Hogan Case Study
Tracking Changes in Conceptions of Empowerment in Nigeria
Women and Local Governance in Sierra Leone
Our research in Sierra Leone is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs under our Pathways of Women's Empowerment in Countries in Crisis project.
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