Would you like to join a webinar? On Friday 13th March, 12 noon UK time, we’ll have a webinar on ‘cross cultural learning’. Everyone that receives these updates is welcome. To book a place, please click here.
The webinar will be led by Professor Sharon (Turnbull). Case study perspectives will be provided by Shivani (Singhal). Shivani is the leader of ‘Dharohar’ (NGO in Udaipur, India). For more about the webinar series, click here. We will use ‘zoom’ using this link https://zoom.us/j/776576770. To learn more about how to use zoom, click here.
This week we’re in The Gambia continuing our contribution with women led marketing federations (see picture below). We’re exploring, with our partner United Purpose, how our collaboration can be developed in different ways, including a piece of action research about the women led marketing federation initiative (which is a three year programme). The research will take a qualitative approach, including to more deeply consider the impact from different perspectives and feelings of those involved.
For the research, we are considering relevant previous studies. For instance, an Action Aid analysis stated that: ‘The labour hours of women in agriculture in The Gambia are disproportionately high in comparison to those of men’. But men hold more decision-making power and have greater access to resources in agriculture, than women. This imbalance contributes to inefficiencies in agricultural production, hinders the effective adaptation of agriculture to climate change, and hence reduces potential benefits and incomes from agriculture. A conclusion of the analysis is that mainstreaming gender into development activities in The Gambia is essential, not only for women and households, but for human and economic development. To read more click here.
Maya Angelou quote: ‘people will forget what you say, they will forget what you do; however, they will not forget how you made them feel.’
Have a great week
Lorna, Ian and Rosie