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Pathways of Women’s Empowerment: Policy Discourses on Women’s Empowerment, Ghana/West Africa

Type: Gender & Women’s Empowerment
Funder / Partner: DFID; Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium
Role: Co-Investigator, West Africa Hub
Period: 2005–2010
Examined how women’s empowerment was understood and promoted by government institutions, development agencies and practitioners in Ghana, with particular attention to policy discourses, institutional practice and the strategies used to advance gender equality.

Chieftaincy Institutions and Land Tenure Security: Challenges, Responses and the Potential for Reform

Type: Human Rights, Governance & Civic Action
Funder / Partner: World Bank; ISSER, University of Ghana
Role: Principal Investigator
Period: 2006
Examined how chieftaincy institutions influence land tenure security in Ghana, focusing on the challenges customary land institutions face, their responses to tenure insecurity and the potential for institutional reform.

Mapping Sustainable Production in Ghanaian Cocoa

Type: Agriculture, Food & Climate
Funder / Partner: Cadbury Schweppes; Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex; University of Ghana
Role: Research Team Member
Period: 2006–2007
Examined the socioeconomic dimensions of sustainable cocoa production in Ghana, including farmer livelihoods, value-chain relationships and the conditions affecting long-term sustainability in cocoa-growing communities.

Evaluation of the Enhancing Child Nutrition through Animal Source Food Management (ENAM) Project

Type: Agriculture, Food & Climate
Funder / Partner: ENAM Project, University of Ghana
Role: Qualitative Evaluator
Period: 2007–2008
Conducted a qualitative evaluation of the ENAM project to understand participants’ experiences and the relationship between income-generating activities, household practices and efforts to improve child nutrition through animal-source foods.

Economic Empowerment of Young People in Ghana: Social and Institutional Triggers and Constraints

Type: Youth, Education & Employment
Funder / Partner: Examined the social and institutional factors that enable or constrain the economic empowerment of young people in Ghana, with attention to their transitions into work, access to opportunities and the wider environment shaping their livelihood choices.
Period: 2007–2008

Modelling the Career Choices of Students at the University of Ghana

Type: Youth, Education & Employment
Funder / Partner: Office of Research, Innovation and Development, University of Ghana
Role: Lead Researcher
Period: 2010–2012
Examined the career aspirations, preferences and choices of University of Ghana students, with particular attention to final-year students preparing to enter the labour market, and analysed patterns across a large student survey.
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