Rethinking the Cost–Benefit Equation of Women's Participation in Community-driven Development in North-western Cameroon

Charles C. Fonchingong and Canute A. Ngwa
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Charles C. Fonchingong: Charles C. Fonchingong is Lecturer, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, University of Buea, P.O. Box 63, Buea, S.W. Province, Cameroon. E-mail: cfonchingong@yahoo.com.
Canute A. Ngwa: Canute A. Ngwa is Lecturer in Economic History, Department of History, University of Buea, Buea Cameroon.

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2006, vol. 13, issue 1, 61-82

Abstract: This article explores the contributions of women in the community development process in selected rural localities of the Cameroon grasslands. The article situates gender concerns in community participation, rekindled through village development associations—vehicles for the mobilisation of social capital directed at the execution of identified projects. We conclude that women still largely remain on the sidelines on account of the relative lack of the education, tight schedules, anachronistic traditions that reinforce male supremacy, lack of finance and abysmally low representation in village institutional structures.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/097152150501300103

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