Women to Women Research for Economic Empowerment in Uganda: A Participatory Action Research Project

Shelley Jones was granted funding through a SSHRC grant to examine the economic empowerment of Ugandan women by best practices and lessons learned when establishing their businesses.

This Feminist Participatory Action Research project supported entrepreneurially-spirited women in Uganda (Participant-Researchers (PRs)) to conduct research that investigates how a select group of these women (Secondary Participants (SPs)) established their businesses in order to inventory, analyze, and report on best practices and lessons learned that will contribute to knowledge that can be accessed by others. The two main research questions of the study are: 1) How might research skills, competencies and opportunities to conduct research empower and benefit women?; and, 2) What can entrepreneurially-spirited women learn from successful, women-led entrepreneurial initiatives in Uganda to support their own aspirations?