This article explores the contributions of women in the community development process
in selected rural localities of the Cameroon grasslands. The article situates gender
concerns in community participation, rekindled through village development
associations—vehicles for the mobilisation of social capital directed at
the execution of identified projects. We conclude that women still largely remain on
the sidelines on account of the relative lack of the education, tight schedules,
anachronistic traditions that reinforce male supremacy, lack of finance and
abysmally low representation in village institutional structures.
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