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Gloria Essilfie; Joshua Sebu; Josephine Baako-Amponsah – SAGE Open, 2024
The study seeks to analyze the effect of women's empowerment on household food security in northern Ghana. Employing Random Effect and Generalized Estimating Equations on the two rounds of Feed the Future dataset, 2012 and 2015, the study measured women empowerment as the comparative years of schooling and decision making by women. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Females, Food
Frank Gyimah Sackey; Richard Kofi Asravor; Isaac Ankrah; Lilian Arthur – Cogent Education, 2023
This study aims to investigate the impact of women empowerment and free senior high school on secondary school enrolment in Ghana. The Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) estimation method, which examines both short- and long-term effects, was utilized to analyze data obtained from the World Bank database and the ILO database covering the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Access to Education, High Schools
Emmanuel Nanabanyin Conduah – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study delves into the product of women's leadership in Catholic colleges of education in four regions of Ghana. Using the synergistic leadership and organizational culture theories as the conceptual frameworks, the study examined the essence of the lived experiences of women in leadership positions of these…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Catholic Schools, College Administration, Females
Williams, Amy – Childhood Education, 2020
In many parts of the world, multiple challenges affect children's ability to access and benefit from education. Innovations that provide multiple solutions can be truly transformative. This article describes the impact one company has had for good on rural villages in Ghana. Empower Playgrounds has developed electricity-generating playground…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Playgrounds, Playground Activities
Bernard Afiik Akanpabadai Akanbang; Constance Aneleru; Maxwell Akansina Aziabah – SAGE Open, 2023
Promoting female learning otherwise known as Girl Child Education continues to engage the attention of policy makers and practitioners in education and development generally; a situation greatly shaped by the myriad of obstacles militating against girl child education. In the current study, we probed the influence of CAMFED's girl child education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Access to Education
Gifty Oforiwaa Gyamera; Dora Animwaa Mireku; Vanessa Tsetse – Cogent Education, 2024
Whilst university-community engagement has become an important aspect of modern universities, it often tends to re/produce inequalities and power imbalances, reinforcing stereotypes and negative identities. Much attention on these inequalities has focussed on the experiences of community members. Students' identities and challenges in these…
Descriptors: Females, College Students, Gender Bias, Sex Stereotypes
Tagoe, Michael – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2008
In the last decade, the "Reflect" approach--an alternative to the "great divide" theory of literacy--has gained wider currency in developing countries because of its ability to deal with social, cultural and political issues by placing the identification and solution of local problems in the hands of local people. In Ghana,…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Community Development, Self Efficacy, Economic Change
Kwapong, Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2008
Using rural household survey data collected from 1000 female household heads selected from all the ten administrative regions in Ghana, this paper explored the policy implications for using ICTs for empowerment of rural women. A contingent valuation (CV) method was used to quantitatively estimate the influence of selected socio-economic factors on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surveys, Females, Rural Areas
Baksh, Rawwida, Ed.; Munro, Tanyss, Ed. – Commonwealth of Learning, 2009
This book includes a range of community peacebuilding experiences from across the Commonwealth that have been applying open and distance learning (ODL) approaches. The case studies offer insights into the challenges as well as the kinds of interventions that have worked and how they can be built upon. They show that ODL can be an effective and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Distance Education, Conflict Resolution, Childrens Rights