Microcredit management in Ghana: development of co-operative credit
unions among the Dagaaba
Gheneti, Y.
Citation
Gheneti, Y. (2007, June 27). Microcredit management in Ghana: development of co-operative
credit unions among the Dagaaba. Leiden Ethnosystems and Development Programme
(LEAD), Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Faculty of Social
Sciences, Leiden University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/12295
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Curriculum vitae
Yeshanew Gheneti was born in Naqamte, Ethiopia, where he completed primary and secondary education. In 1981 he joined the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, from where he obtained a ‘Kandidaats’ diploma in Social Sciences with specialization in Development Studies. In 1988 he completed his ‘Doctoraal’ in Policy Science at the same university with special emphasis on development and political economy. Since then, he has been engaged in development research and activities in both East and West Africa. He carried out various community-based development research activities and baseline surveys in Ghana and Kenya, and worked on research and development programmes with various Non- Governmental Organizations in the Netherlands. He is the co-founder and programme coordinator of the Netherlands based Local Institutions Development.
Drs. Gheneti has also been engaged in indigenous knowledge and resources-oriented research under the auspices of Leiden University’s Faculty of Social Sciences and, as a Junior Researcher under NOW/WOTRO, he conducted research in the Upper-West Region of Ghana on local co-operative savings and credit unions. He was attached to the Center of Non- Western Studies of the Leiden University from 1992 to 1996, and until present he is affiliated to the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University.
Over the last ten years he has regularly lectured on local institutions and sustainable development in Africa and supervised students of the Faculty of Social Sciences conducting fieldwork training in Sub-Saharan Africa. As a Senior Member of the Leiden Ethnosystems and Development (LEAD) program, he developed several research proposals on, among others, alternative pastoral livelihood strategies and integrated management of community development in the Horn of Africa. He is currently preparing a follow-up research program on local institutions and sustainable agrodiversity development in East Africa, which will be implemented under the joint auspices of the LEAD program and the Leiden University Branch of the National Herbarium of The Netherlands.
