Village savings and loans: Reducing poverty in rural Ghana
In Ghana’s Northern Region, over 950 women are members of Village Savings and Loan Associations, enabling them to buy fertiliser and seed to improve their food security, create or expand small businesses and pay school fees. With a greater role in community and household decision-making processes, m...
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
2018
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| description | In Ghana’s Northern Region, over 950 women are members of Village Savings and Loan Associations, enabling them to buy fertiliser and seed to improve their food security, create or expand small businesses and pay school fees. With a greater role in community and household decision-making processes, members have also reported being empowered. |
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| spelling | CGSpace971782023-06-12T16:12:39Z Village savings and loans: Reducing poverty in rural Ghana Watkins, Susan Biniyam, Grace In Ghana’s Northern Region, over 950 women are members of Village Savings and Loan Associations, enabling them to buy fertiliser and seed to improve their food security, create or expand small businesses and pay school fees. With a greater role in community and household decision-making processes, members have also reported being empowered. 2018-09 2018-09-13T09:06:42Z 2018-09-13T09:06:42Z Case Study https://hdl.handle.net/10568/97178 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/89687 Open Access application/pdf Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Watkins, Susan and Grace Biniyam. 2018. Village savings and loans: Reducing poverty in rural Ghana. IN: CTA. 2018. Experience capitalization: Insights on rural development in West Africa. Experience Capitalization Series 3. Wageningen: CTA: 8-12. |
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| title | Village savings and loans: Reducing poverty in rural Ghana |
| title_full | Village savings and loans: Reducing poverty in rural Ghana |
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| title_short | Village savings and loans: Reducing poverty in rural Ghana |
| title_sort | village savings and loans reducing poverty in rural ghana |
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