Innovative Strategies for Resilience and Preventative Safety for Market Women in Ghana
摘要
Market women travel long distances across the length and breadth of the country to purchase and transport these products to their respective destinations. In their daily endeavors, these market women encounter enormous security and safety challenges, which have been acknowledged in the literature. Some scholars have examined crime, security, and safety issues that affect traditional market women with some recommendations as to what measures need to be put in place to address these issues. However, there is a paucity of literature that has explored innovative and practical strategies for building community partnerships and resilience among market women and law enforcement, preventative safety, and security architecture, to ameliorate the safety and security jolts experienced by these market women. This study seeks to contribute to the growing debates on the impact of current or lack of adequate policy measures to address the jolts traditional market women experienced in Ghana, from the lens of shared collective responsibilities, partnership, community mobilization, engagement, and policing. This approach seeks to bring another perspective to the discourse on safety and security jolts traditional market women encounter in their day-to-day activities in the marketplace. This exploration will be conducted through desk reviews on current studies in the field and government policy interventions to address these jolts. In particular, the author will also seek to integrate significant professional security experience and background from the field into this exploration. The integration of the professional expertise and experience of the author will be further explained in the methodology section, highlighting the significance of security dimensions in proffering effective and sustainable interventions. Generally, the findings and recommendations will provide some insights into innovative and practical approaches to ameliorate the impact of safety and security challenges encountered by these traditional market women from the perspective of a security practitioner. This will, therefore, culminate in the development of specific and targeted interventions that will seek to deal with the unique challenges encountered by market women traders.