Gender Livelihoods Participatory Research

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Participatory research with female carpet weavers — Marrakech

Morocco · 2024 · Community research

Participatory study with female carpet weavers exploring what empowerment means on their own terms — engaging women as theorists of their own condition rather than beneficiaries of an external agenda, and documenting the aspirations and constraints that define meaningful change in their context.

Key outcome: Community-grounded empowerment frameworks produced. Livelihoods programming assumptions challenged.
Methods: Participatory research · In-depth interviews · Feminist ethnographic inquiry