The grassroots women's committee as a development strategy in an Upper Volta village

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Title:	The grassroots women's committee as a development strategy in an Upper Volta village
Author:	Henderson, Helen
Book title:	Women farmers in Africa: rural development in Mali and the Sahel
Year:	1986
Pages:	133-152
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Burkina Faso
Subjects:	agricultural projects women's work
Abstract:	For a period of three months in 1978-1979, the author took part in an ongoing livestock project in the village of Koukoundi in Burkina Faso in order to assess the social and ecological environment in which rural women live and to elicit their participation in designing further development projects that might be desirable or useful to them. Her methodology involved observation of women in their daily routines, interviews on selected livestock-related topics, meetings with groups of women, and administration of a questionnaire on livestock practices. In this article she describes the project, and particularly the economic activities common to women in the three ethnic groups in the village: Mossi, Fulani, and Riimaaybe (descendants of people captured by the Fulani). Notes.