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Department of Community Development, University for Development Studies, Cape Coast, Ghana

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• Research Article   
  A Local NGOS Role in the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women in the Upper West Region of Ghana: Evidence from House of Liberation for Empowerment (HOLFE)
  Author(s): Abdel-Kadri Fuseini* and Beatrice Yayra Amati
  
  The study examined the role of a local NGO (House of Liberation for Empowerment (HOLIFE) in economic empowerment of rural women in the Upper West Region, Ghana. It delved into the factors constraining women economic empowerment, assessed HOLIFE strategies adopted in promoting women economic empowerment and further identified the challenges facing HOLIFE organization in the discharge of its duties in the study areas. The paper builds on a case study of HOLIFE-NGO engaged in women empowerment so far in five districts in the upper west region. The study adopted in-depth interviews with three HOLIFE top management staff, one focus group discussions held in each beneficiary district with nine-teen women beneficiaries and semi-structured interviews with twenty-five HOLIFE district based executives from the five beneficiary districts (five each from the five districts). The collected data we.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2151-6200.2024.15.580

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