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Scaling up Women's Agripreneurship Through Public-private Linkages in Rural Ghana

NCT03869853 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 535

Last updated 2024-11-20

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Summary

Over one-third of rural Ghanaians live below the poverty line and women and children living in poverty are at the highest risk of poor nutrition and health. Sustained integrated approaches that increase agricultural productivity and value addition, diversify incomes, and enhance knowledge and skills among all stakeholders are required to improve the well-being of rural communities. There exists a unique opportunity, building on the results of the Nutrition Links (NL) project, to test sustainable district-level approaches that support women agripreneurs and address existing gender inequities in rural Ghana. This project will test different approaches to enhance the sustainability of activities that will (i) increase access to resources and services for agricultural production and, where relevant, value addition for women, (ii) facilitate access to markets that will enhance women's entrepreneurship, and (iii) help district partners integrate targets and activities to meet a common goal. The 3-y project will include quantitative and qualitative data collection to implement a trial to test a sustainable approach for engaging female agripreneurs in farmers' associations and improving their business successes, with different approaches to integrate new activities in district institutions' programs. The project will be guided by the team of institutions working together with district stakeholders to improve the quality of life of rural Ghanaian women agripreneurs and their families.

Conditions

  • Women's Health
  • Low Income Populations

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Entrepreneurial stimulation and integrated education

one month cycle of stimulation of business with integrated education on nutrition, health, and gender empowerment

BEHAVIORAL

control

no intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Ghana

    collaborator OTHER

  • Heifer Project International

    collaborator OTHER

  • International Development Research Centre, Canada

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • McGill University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Esi K Colecraft, DrPH · University of Ghana

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-01
Primary Completion
2022-08-15
Completion
2022-09-15

Countries

  • Ghana

Study Locations

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