Gendered citizenship in rural Uganda

Abstract

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Social capital and women's willingness to pay for safe water access: Evidence from African rural areas

“…Participation is not a silver bullet to improve women's conditions; rather, it depends on the type of participation analysed. In this vein, a religious activity seems to be primary compared to the charity one, recalling the important role of this form of participation in Uganda as found in Alava and Shroff (2019) and Ndidde et al (2019).…”

“…Such programmes have attempted to engage most of the population and transfer best practices of participation, especially women that are often marginalised. In parallel, other types of civic participation derive from the presence of the Catholic and Protestant missionaries in providing education and healthy environment and promoting transformation in civil society of rural Africa (Ndidde et al, 2019). Thereby, religious organisations are catalyser of community engagement, acting both as a community‐serving institution and as a community itself (Alava & Shroff, 2019), although they are partially gendered themselves, due to deep‐rooted patriarchal habits and male‐dominated culture (Chari, 2009).…”

“…As a result, some districts have more political power than the others. This has contributed to increase tension and rivalries among ethnic groups and has created a fertile soil to increase between-district income disparity (Ndidde et al, 2019). Namely, Kotido is the richest, whereas Kaabong is one of the poorest districts of Karamoja in terms of GDP per capita (Care International, 2013).…”

“…Nonetheless, the issue of the interaction between local settings and civic participation in determining the individual consciousness of women and their role within the society remains quite unexplored, especially in the African context (Sakketa & Prowse, 2018). Moreover, the existing literature on this argument does not give an indication on the effects of various types of engagement when exploring the role of civic participation as a way to empower women in the least developed countries (Baguma et al, 2013; Naiga et al, 2017; Ndidde et al, 2019; Thapliyal et al, 2019). We thus identify a research gap related to the channels through which civic participation could support women awareness in rural African contexts, as expressed by their willingness to pay (WTP) for a better water access.…”

Researching Without “Methods”: An Experiment in Socio-Ecological Sustainability Research With Rural Communities

“…It allowed a different type of data and information to be generated that provided an important contrast to that resulting from the RGDs. For example, gendered views on issues of environmental sustainability (Ndidde et al, 2019) became clear as husbands and wives freely agreed or disagreed on particular issues. As it later emerged through iterative analysis, the home proved to be a basic unit of interaction between the community and the environment.…”