CASAS’ member, Dzifa Torvikey, has published a book chapter with Sylvia Ohene Marfo.
Abstract: We study the effects of the programme’s discontinuation in 2020 on households, women and girls as well as the predominantly female farmers, vendors and caterers involved in the programme’s supply chain. We argue that the government’s responses exacerbated entrenched gender norms and class inequalities, affecting the well being of women and girls. Finally, we conclude that political actors used the health emergency to intensify austerity in the GSFP rather than making radical changes to address concerns pertaining to social justice, equity and women’s social reproductive burden. The study is based on a systematic review of the literature on social protection programmes in general and the GSFP in particular, with a special focus on how its implementation strategies changed in the context of the pandemic and the macroeconomic crisis. The study relies on relevant media reports, national Budget documents, newsletters of the programme and an interview with a district-level official in the Ghana Education Service (GES). In addition, in-depth interviews were conducted in eight households, including four female-headed households, in Accra, the national capital of Ghana and an epicentre of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Wa, the capital of the poorest region in the Upper Wester region of the country.
Read the article here: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350513648.ch-002
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