Tonnoma's Story : Women's Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso

Tonnoma is the protagonist of her own story of development. 26 years old, illiterate, and married to a man 15 years her senior, Tonnoma lives in a rural area of Burkina Faso. Before finding employment with the Youth Employment and Skills Development Project, she performed household chores and depend...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Grun, Rebekka, Jillson, Irene, Kantiono, Florence, Kedote, GIlberte, Ouangraoua, Nathalie, Daouda-Koudjo, Moudjibath
Format: Book
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2020
Subjects:
Online Access:https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/525921614756103235/tonnomas-story-womens-work-and-empowerment-in-burkina-faso
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34920
id okr-10986-34920
recordtype oai_dc
spelling okr-10986-349202021-07-17T05:10:44Z Tonnoma's Story : Women's Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso Grun, Rebekka Jillson, Irene Kantiono, Florence Kedote, GIlberte Ouangraoua, Nathalie Daouda-Koudjo, Moudjibath YOUTH EMPLOYMENT LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT SOCIAL NORMS GENDER GAP GENDER BIAS INTRA-HOUSEHOLD INEQUALITY POVERTY SOCIAL ASSISTANCE Tonnoma is the protagonist of her own story of development. 26 years old, illiterate, and married to a man 15 years her senior, Tonnoma lives in a rural area of Burkina Faso. Before finding employment with the Youth Employment and Skills Development Project, she performed household chores and depended on her husband’s irregular income to meet the family’s needs. His income was not always sufficient, and they lost their fourth child to poverty. Tonnoma’s Story: Women’s Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso is based on actual events and the experiences of numerous women. It draws directly from the results of qualitative research on the factors impeding or promoting women’s ability to work in Burkina Faso. It offers readers a glimpse into the daily lives of women who live in a rural environment and want to work. This book shows us that emotional relationships matter, that the social and cultural landscape we are born into matters, and that if we want to conduct effective development, we have to listen carefully to the beneficiaries. How do they perceive their circumstances? What influences their behaviors? What helps or hinders women’s access to employment—in their view? This book encourages readers to reflect on how to conduct more beneficiary-centered and participatory international development that better responds to realities on the ground. 2020-12-11T15:46:22Z 2020-12-11T15:46:22Z 2021-03-02 Book https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/525921614756103235/tonnomas-story-womens-work-and-empowerment-in-burkina-faso 978-1-4648-1645-1 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34920 International Development in Focus; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Publication Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Burkina Faso
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Foreign Institution
institution Digital Repositories
building World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection World Bank
topic YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
SOCIAL NORMS
GENDER GAP
GENDER BIAS
INTRA-HOUSEHOLD INEQUALITY
POVERTY
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
spellingShingle YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
LABOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
SOCIAL NORMS
GENDER GAP
GENDER BIAS
INTRA-HOUSEHOLD INEQUALITY
POVERTY
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
Grun, Rebekka
Jillson, Irene
Kantiono, Florence
Kedote, GIlberte
Ouangraoua, Nathalie
Daouda-Koudjo, Moudjibath
Tonnoma's Story : Women's Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso
geographic_facet Africa
Africa Western and Central (AFW)
Burkina Faso
relation International Development in Focus;
description Tonnoma is the protagonist of her own story of development. 26 years old, illiterate, and married to a man 15 years her senior, Tonnoma lives in a rural area of Burkina Faso. Before finding employment with the Youth Employment and Skills Development Project, she performed household chores and depended on her husband’s irregular income to meet the family’s needs. His income was not always sufficient, and they lost their fourth child to poverty. Tonnoma’s Story: Women’s Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso is based on actual events and the experiences of numerous women. It draws directly from the results of qualitative research on the factors impeding or promoting women’s ability to work in Burkina Faso. It offers readers a glimpse into the daily lives of women who live in a rural environment and want to work. This book shows us that emotional relationships matter, that the social and cultural landscape we are born into matters, and that if we want to conduct effective development, we have to listen carefully to the beneficiaries. How do they perceive their circumstances? What influences their behaviors? What helps or hinders women’s access to employment—in their view? This book encourages readers to reflect on how to conduct more beneficiary-centered and participatory international development that better responds to realities on the ground.
format Book
author Grun, Rebekka
Jillson, Irene
Kantiono, Florence
Kedote, GIlberte
Ouangraoua, Nathalie
Daouda-Koudjo, Moudjibath
author_facet Grun, Rebekka
Jillson, Irene
Kantiono, Florence
Kedote, GIlberte
Ouangraoua, Nathalie
Daouda-Koudjo, Moudjibath
author_sort Grun, Rebekka
title Tonnoma's Story : Women's Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso
title_short Tonnoma's Story : Women's Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso
title_full Tonnoma's Story : Women's Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso
title_fullStr Tonnoma's Story : Women's Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso
title_full_unstemmed Tonnoma's Story : Women's Work and Empowerment in Burkina Faso
title_sort tonnoma's story : women's work and empowerment in burkina faso
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2020
url https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/525921614756103235/tonnomas-story-womens-work-and-empowerment-in-burkina-faso
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34920
_version_ 1764481936177233920