The Myth of Community: Gender Issues in Participatory Development

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dc.contributor.authorShah, M. K.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialDarkoen
dc.coverage.spatialGhanaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T20:29:54Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T20:29:54Zen
dc.date.issued1998en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractThis chapter discusses the use of Participatory Rural Appraisal to obtain gendered perceptions or differences of well-being and poverty, gendered impacts of poverty, and opportunities for social or economic change in Darko, Ghana. Findings show that men and women define well-being and poverty differently based on material wealth, marital status, religion, land mass, crops, and money. Also, social change is occurring in Darko because household composition is changing. This is due in some ways to poverty, disproving the assumption that household income and livelihood is pooled and shared in equal fashion. The author concludes that using participatory methodologies allows for the differences between women and men to be recognized and thus could be useful in creating more effective and targeted strategies of development programs.en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier5010en
dc.identifier.isbn1-85339-421-1en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/70065en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherITGD Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofIn: Guijt, I. and M.K. Shah (eds.). The Myth of Community, 131-140en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectEmpowermenten
dc.subjectCommunity participationen
dc.subjectAfricaen
dc.subjectSocial changeen
dc.subjectWell-beingen
dc.subjectWatersheden
dc.titleThe Myth of Community: Gender Issues in Participatory Developmenten
dc.typeAbstracten
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