{"id":2698,"date":"2019-02-27T07:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T07:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2019-02-27T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T07:33:07","slug":"deccma-ghana-success-with-proposal-empowering-women-and-transforming-gender-relations-in-the-volta-delta-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2019\/02\/27\/deccma-ghana-success-with-proposal-empowering-women-and-transforming-gender-relations-in-the-volta-delta-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"DECCMA Ghana success with proposal “Empowering women and transforming gender relations in the Volta delta, Ghana”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DECCMA Ghana team has been successful in its proposal “Empowering women and transforming gender relations in the Volta delta, Ghana”.\u00a0 The project\u00a0will bring together researchers with local and national policy-makers, a leading Ghanaian advocacy NGO, and traditional leaders to build networks and share research findings with the aim of co-producing knowledge that leads to women\u2019s empowerment and transformation of gender relations in Sogakope and Keta in the Volta delta.\u00a0 In-keeping with the CDKN<\/a> aim “From knowledge to action in African countries”, the project aims to take forward findings from DECCMA that women in the delta have high labour burdens due to out-migration of men, combined with a land tenure system that does not provide security of tenure.<\/p>\n

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Houses are submerged by sand in Keta (photo: Katharine Vincent)<\/p><\/div>\n

The project team, comprising representatives of the University of Ghana<\/a>, ProLink Ghana<\/a>, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Keta Municipality, Hlevie Global Women, the local traditional leadership, and Kulima Integrated Development Solutions<\/a> will attend a Knowledge Accelerator Lab facilitated by CDKN<\/a> in April in order to develop a full proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DECCMA Ghana team has been successful in its proposal “Empowering women and transforming gender relations in the Volta delta, Ghana”.\u00a0 The project\u00a0will bring together researchers with local and national policy-makers, a leading Ghanaian advocacy NGO, and traditional leaders to build networks and share research findings with the aim of co-producing knowledge that leads to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[68,63,71,152,81,57,104],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta","category-volta","tag-delta","tag-gender","tag-ghana","tag-land-tenure","tag-livelihoods","tag-volta","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-Hw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2325,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/07\/04\/2325\/","url_meta":{"origin":2698,"position":0},"title":"DECCMA Ghana shares research findings from the Volta delta during a student exchange workshop","author":"katharinevincent","date":"4th July 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Prosper Adiku In mid-May, Professor Kwasi Appeaning Addo of the University of Ghana shared findings from the DECCMA project during a student exchange workshop on the Volta delta organised by TU Delft and Delta Alliance in the Netherlands. 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