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West Africa Hub

CEGENSA Team

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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

Research Poster

Team Members:
Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Akofa Anyidoho (Programme Administration and Communications)
Nana Akua Anyidoho
Awo Mana Asiedu
Akosua Darkwah
Dzodzi Tsikata

Three coalition march of women in Ghana

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Partners:

Initiative for Women’s Studies in Nigeria
Charmaine Pereira
Irene Pogoson

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 will take 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 will work 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.




Projects

Inter-Generational Perspectives on Women's Lives and Empowerment (A Pilot Survey Project)

Interrogating Policy Discourses and Practice on Women's Empowerment in Ghana

Women District Assembly Members

Changing Representations of Women in Popular Culture

Expanding the Space for Women's Empowerment in Contemporary Nigeria

Interrogating discourses of Empowerment in Pre and Post-war Sierra Leone

Continuity and Change in the Lives of Ghanaian Marketwomen

Sexuality and Empowerment: The Case of Anita Hogan

Grassroots Politics: The Push for Women's Representation at the Ward Level in Post-War 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.