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Bashford-Squires, S 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8601-3093,
2024.
An exploration of the impact of social enterprise projects on women’s health in Teso, Uganda.
PhD, Nottingham Trent University.
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Abstract
This research explores the health and wellbeing of women living in the Teso sub-region, Uganda, a rural area in the North-East of the country experiencing high levels of poverty. It examines the impact of social enterprise projects (SEP) on women’s health through a lens of intersectionality. The study also investigates the implications of a researcher from the minority world studying an Indigenous population. The social enterprises researched include tailoring schools, agricultural projects, and a girls’ football team.
Various evidence suggests that increasing women's income intensifies their work burden leading to greater health issues (Rujumba and Kwiringira 2019). Other studies propose that economic empowerment is necessary to autonomy (Sen 2001). This research seeks to understand how SEP impact on Iteso women’s health.
The study draws on a qualitative approach using bricolage, rapid- ethnography, and autoethnography as methodologies due to their adherence with the Afrocentric values which guided the research. The research presents narratives from 63 semi-structured interviews, alongside field notes, autoethnographic extracts, photographs, and artwork. Analysis of the findings was conducted through a conceptual framework combining intersectionality, new materialism, and Indigenous Knowledge.
The results of this research demonstrate that women in Teso are subjugated to issues relating to climate change, particularly poverty. Such issues include diseases such as malaria and HIV, along with non-communicable illnesses concerning mental health. Gender-based violence, in its many forms, impacts women’s health and intersects with customs such as bride-price and polygamy.
The enterprise projects provide resources which lessen violence and improve health. The communitarian values of the participants reflect an ethics of care encouraging relationality and reciprocity. However, this research also demonstrates the need involve men in enterprise projects. This research contributes to existing knowledge on issues of gender and development within majority world settings. It reveals the propensity for SEP, based on communitarian values, to improve community health in marginalised areas. Analysing the lives of some of the world’s most marginalised women provides an inclusive paradigm for considering global social justice.
| Item Type: | Thesis |
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| Creators: | Bashford-Squires, S. |
| Contributors: | Name Role NTU ID ORCID |
| Date: | April 2024 |
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology |
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher |
| Date Added: | 14 May 2025 11:29 |
| Last Modified: | 14 May 2025 11:29 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/53581 |
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