Projects
Africa-based Gender Tech Platform for Gender Responsive Malaria Advocacy and Policy Project
The Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have set up a Pan-African Gender Integration Platform (PA-GIP) for gender-responsive malaria advocacy and policy. This platform (PA-GIP) will serve as an Africa-led resource for gender integration (GI) advisory services and knowledge generation. The PA-GIP will provide a Pan-African perspective which will help uncover new ways to deal with complex gender-related topics and to identify, contextualize and integrate gender-transformative approaches into malaria advocacy and policy frameworks to advance both malaria and gender equality outcomes.
Interrogating Large-Scale Land Acquisition and its Implication on Women
The Centre is currently working on a project titled, 'Interrogating Large-Scale Land Acquisition and its Implication on Women'-an IDRC (International Development Research Centre) sponsored research project which seeks to investigate how and under what circumstances women can be empowered to effectively participate in the processes of large-scale land acquisition in order to ensure better accountability and legitimacy in land governance in sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, the project seeks to explore the de jure and de facto ways in which land transitions between rural traditional leaders and global capital takes place and the ways in which different constituencies (women and men in the communities, NGOs and state officials) contest these practices.
As part of this, a project launch/an inception of the project was organised on May 15, 2014 at YIRI Lodge to bring aboard stakeholders and experts on the issue to discuss the project in detail in terms of methodology, research questions, possible research sites and advocacy efforts.
UNIFEM
CEGENSA together with the Ark Foundation, Ghana and the DV Coalition, the Centre undertook a three year UNIFEM sponsored project on HIV/AIDS entitled "Ameliorating the effects of violence and HIV/AIDS infection among selected groups in Southern Ghana".
Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Consortium
Pathways of Women's Empowerment Research Consortium is a five (5) year project funded by the Department of International Development, UK (DFID), which seeks to explore the variety and complex pathways that women around the world have sought to empower themselves while seeking to shape policy by interactions with policy institutions and policy makers through research and communications
This was an IDRC funded project which seeks to examine the changing nature of women's work, with particular reference to the banking and domestic sectors. It aims to produce knowledge about women's work in the two sectors to strengthen the appreciation of the implications of informalisation of work for the quality of work. This project is in its third and final year and CEGENSA is in the process of finalising year three's technical and financial reports.