Land ownership and control by women has increased from 25.8 per cent to 49.6 per cent at the end of Oxfam and Global Affairs Canada’s five-year “WEACT” Project in four regions across the country.
The WEACT (Women’s Economic Advancement for Collective Transformation) project, aimed at addressing the gender-specific barriers for women working in agriculture and in the informal economy of the shea and cocoa sectors in the Upper West, Upper East, Northern and Western Regions, Mr Mohammed Anwar Sadat Adam, the Country Director, Oxfam in Ghana, said at the close of the project in Accra.
It was on the theme: “Sustaining Women’s Economic Empowerment for Inclusive Growth”.
He said the project had also indicated progress in securing land tenure rights with growing support from men and traditional leaders, who had become more open to the idea of women acquiring land.
The more than 30,000 beneficiaries of the project including men …