What is femSTEP?
femSTEP is a research program that aims to highlight rural girls' and women's perspectives for engendering poverty reduction strategies. Building research partnerships between Canadian and African researchers, this program draws upon an interdisciplinary approach utilizing participatory visual methodologies to analyze gender issues in relation to rural poverty through the experiences of girls and women in Rwanda, South Africa and Ethiopia.
Objectives
- Provide data, evidence, and analysis of girls' and women's concerns, choices, and critical role in grassroots policy making and poverty reduction programs
- Inform development and social policies and the allocation of resources to improve rural girls’ and women's lives in Rwanda, Ethiopia, and South Africa
- Provide theoretical insights for other contexts or situations which are comparable elsewhere in Africa
- Highlight the ways in which participatory methodologies can provide different data and alternate interpretations and insights regarding gender sensitive agendas
- Reinforce networking and partnerships between Canadian and African feminist scholars
- Train new researchers in Canada and in Africa in the use of participatory visual methods and gender-based-analysis, especially within a development context.
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