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In particular, it focuses on understanding the nature of campaigns and what makes them effective. It asserts that campaigns are not […] View resource Discussion paper Building Sustainable Peace: Conflict, conciliation, and civil society in Northern Ghana 01/01/1999 1 documents 69 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Civil society Conflict Disasters Overview Intense fighting in the Northern Region of Ghana in 1994 and 1995 led to the loss of 15,000 lives and the displacement of 200,000 people. A Formal peace treaty, negotiated by the government, ended the fighting but did not address the underlying causes of the conflict, which were a complex mix of economic, political, and […] View resource Journal article Premarital relationships and livelihoods in Ghana 01/10/1996 9 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords GaD Gender and Development Journal Labour standards Social protection Overview Despite the image of Ghanaian women as dominant in informal sector activity and successful in business, the research discussed in this article indicates that young women still expect men to act as providers of capital and subsistence expenses, taking on the role associated with a ‘husband’. In return, the women take on aspects of the […] View resource Book Women Employment and Exclusion 01/01/1996 1 documents 75 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Gender mainstreaming Livelihoods Social protection Overview Considering various types of finance schemes, this text compares the effectiveness of various approaches in aiding poverty reduction. The provision of credit and other financial services has become increasingly seen as the answer to the problem facing poor people. Microfinance interventions have the capacity to increase incomes, contribute to individual and household security, and change […] View resource Journal article Coping with transition through organisation techiman market, Ghana 01/10/1995 6 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Finance GaD Gender and Development Journal Overview This article examines the effects of transition to a market-driven economic model, on the activities of women traders in Techiman Market, Ghana. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website. View resource Journal article Doing primary research in a developing economy 01/08/1995 5 pages long Free access through journal website Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Agriculture Development in Practice Journal Development methods DiP Overview In 1992 and 1993 fieldwork was done in the Eastern Region of Ghana to examine why hybrid cocoa, introduced by cocoa institutions, was adopted by some farmers and not others. This report discusses the problems encountered when collecting data, including the low-level of farmers’ education, and the lack of official records and sampling possibilities. This […] View resource Book Societies in Transition 01/01/1995 1 documents 71 pages long Languages: English Overview Overview Share Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on email Keywords Civil society Overview In this book, the theme of transition is treated in an innovative and holistic way to include not only the changeover to democracy and free-market economics in former Eastern-bloc countries, but other forms of major social and personal transformation, such as change resulting from armed conflict, and the process of ageing. The emphasis is on […] View resource Posts navigation Prev page Page 1 … Page 9 Page 10 Spotted an error? Let us know