Research Approach

About the research project

The gender skill gap has been a consistent challenge despite the tremendous efforts through policies and advocacy to champion gender parity put in place. Part of the solution to this would be enabling access to capacity development for girls and women to fill the existing skill gap, something I assume doesn't require lots of thinking process to conclude. African governments have set this among their priority battles, whereby the African Union has'' closing the gender skill gap'' among the continent's priorities(African Union, 2016) however, the continent is still struggling with gender divide in regards to its human capacity.

Therefore this research is about; bringing an understanding to what could be considered a grassroots of the gender skill gap challenge. With the insights gathered and observations made, I hope to validate the relevancy of considering ''mindset shifting'' towards gender roles stereotypes as a critical contributor to closing the gender skill gap. Therefore due to limited resources and time, as well as Africa being a vast continent, the research for my capstone project would be focusing Rwanda a case study.