Queen mothers, NGOs, and orphans: Transformations in traditional women's political organization in an era of HIV and orphanhood in Manya Klo, Ghana
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Drah, B.B. 2014. Queen mothers, NGOs, and orphans: Transformations in traditional women's political organization in an era of HIV and orphanhood in Manya Klo, Ghana. Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift–Norwegian Journal of Geography Vol. 68, 10–21. ISSN 0029-1951.Women's groups in sub-Saharan Africa have made significant contributions to the response to the twin epidemics of HIV and orphanhood. However, researchers have focused almost exclusively on grandmother-headed orphan-filled households. Consequently, very limited knowledge exists of the role of traditional female political leaders in alleviating the conditions of orphans. The article analyses the institution of queen mother in Manya Klo, Ghana. It describes the institution's emergence, the changes that have occurred within it such as becoming NGOs, and its involvement in the development of interventions for HIV and orphans. The results suggest that the transformations within traditional political institutions and the personal interests of queen mothers directly impact the survival of the institution, and these factors combine to affect the survival of orphans. Apart from providing material support to orphans, there is the need to examine critically the different types of female political institutions that provide leadership to local communities in times of crisis and to empower them to respond to the needs of orphans and their households.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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