Paradox of Empowerment: Reflections on a Case Study from Northern Ghana

By Karl Botchway. 2001

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Decentralization and Participation: The Governance of Common Pool Resources in Nepal’s Terai (2005, background): “Many existing studies have also been highly concerned with questions of equity and distribution in participation (Agarwal, 2001; Botchway, 2001; Teklu & Asefa, 1999).”
Troubles on the way: An analysis of the challenges faced by multi-stakeholder platforms (2006, background): “…tend to have more information than a central authority, and they tend to be more interested in achieving a satisfactory solution (Berkes et al., 1989; Botchway, 2001); and • Stakeholders are more likely to accept a project or a solution to a problem if they have been part of the decisionmaking…”
Is Community Management an Efficient and Effective Model of Public Service Delivery? Lessons from the Rural Water Supply Sector in Malawi (2015, background): “A considerable literature has noted the dangers of localism, including the risks of elite capture (e.g., Cleaver, 1999; Mohan and Stokke, 2000; Botchway, 2001; Vollan, 2012).”
Women Empowerment Through Microfinance: Empirical Evidence from Ghana (2017, background): “In the past, Ghanaian women were restricted to the kitchen whiles men schooled and as such women were not expected to influence the decision-making processes from domestic level to the national level [5].”