Urban Poverty, Livelihood, and Gender: Perceptions and Experiences of Porters in Accra, Ghana

Yeboah, Muriel A.

doi:10.2979/aft.2010.56.3.42

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“…By design, RDS minimized prior challenges regarding participant availability and willingness to take time away from work to engage in extended conversations (Opare 2003;Awumbila and Ardayfio-Schandorf 2008;Yeboah 2010). This study remained unaffected by the high degree of mobility that challenged others' efforts to track participants and to collect data (Opare 2003;Yeboah and Appiah-Yeboah 2009;Yeboah 2010;Addai 2011), since participation required visiting a central office.…”

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“…This study remained unaffected by the high degree of mobility that challenged others' efforts to track participants and to collect data (Opare 2003;Yeboah and Appiah-Yeboah 2009;Yeboah 2010;Addai 2011), since participation required visiting a central office. Basing the research in a central office will have restricted potential recruits working and living outside the central business district; however, the surveys captured participants living in 29 communities and working in 44 places within Accra.…”

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“…Prior studies on kayayei report concerns with the representativeness of their samples (Opare 2003;Yeboah 2010;Addai 2011;Oberhauser and Yeboah 2011;Agyei, Kumi, and Yeboah 2016). To improve representativeness in this study and minimize known sources of nonparticipation bias, the formative research phase discussed past studies' sampling challenges (Table 5) and potential solutions.…”

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“…The sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) was adapted to guide this study. The SLF provides a holistic analysis of livelihoods and deviates from consumption‐based approaches (Yeboah, 2010), which formed the basis of the earlier discourse on rural poverty. Moreover, as Scoones (1998) has argued, the framework can be applied to a range of different scales—from individual, to household, to household cluster, to extended kin groupings, to region or nation—with different livelihood outcomes at different levels.…”

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Looking Beyond Cash Transfers for Optimizing Poverty Reduction and Livelihood Sustainability in Rural Ghana: Comparative Analysis of Two Social Policy Interventions Against Poverty

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2020

Poverty & Public Policy

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In this article, we argue that, if the poverty reduction inroads recorded from the declaration of the Millennium Development Goals could be optimized and sustained particularly in rural areas experiencing higher incidence of poverty and livelihood vulnerabilities, policymakers and development practitioners ought to look beyond cash transfer measures to embrace skills and technology transfer policies and programs. This approach has a greater tendency of creating appropriate context for the empowerment and enhancement of the production capacities of the poor in ways that guarantee their independence to engage in self‐help initiatives and resilient local livelihoods. This conclusion is drawn from comparative study outcomes of two Government of Ghana social policies for poverty reduction, namely—the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty and the Rural Enterprise Program.

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“…Health hazards and vulnerability to physical and psychological abuse such as rape, unwanted pregnancies, robbery, and forced prostitution, are prevalent problems facing most migrant female head-load porters living and working in southern Ghanaian cities of Accra, Kumasi, and Sekondi-Takoradi (Awumbila & Ardayfio-Schorf, 2008;Opare, 2003;Van den Berg, 2007;Yeboah, 2010;Yeboah & Appiah-Yeboah, 2009). Head-load porters are women who carry goods on their head in the large commercial cities of Southern Ghana for negotiated fees (Awumbila & Ardayfio-Schorf, 2008).…”

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The Nexus of Female Capital and North–South Labor Migration in Ghana

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2014

Journal of Developing Societies

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The phenomenon of female head-load portaging in the large commercial cities of Southern Ghana has become a social canker. This article explores the role access to capital plays in the labor relocation of women from northern to Southern Ghana to engage in street head-load portaging, with the goal of examining the potential of microfinance to reverse this trend. Using a phenomenological study design and semi-structured interviews of 15 migrant women porters in Accra, the results revealed that lack of access to capital is a major determinant in the labor migration decisions of female head porters. Also, the study revealed that migrant female porters have a strong desire to obtain capital from microfinance versus savings from head-load portaging. The implications for positive social change include informing development practitioners and policy makers of the importance of microfinance as a prospective remedial policy to address the phenomenon of north to south female labor migration that contributes to the head-load portage syndrome and the inherent degradation this occupation creates for women in Southern Ghana.

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Urban Poverty, Livelihood, and Gender: Perceptions and Experiences of Porters in Accra, Ghana

Cited by 25 publications

References 23 publications

Collecting data from migrants in Ghana: Lessons learned using respondent-driven sampling

Collecting data from migrants in Ghana: Lessons learned using respondent-driven sampling

Looking Beyond Cash Transfers for Optimizing Poverty Reduction and Livelihood Sustainability in Rural Ghana: Comparative Analysis of Two Social Policy Interventions Against Poverty

The Nexus of Female Capital and North–South Labor Migration in Ghana

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