Abigail R Benhura
Biographic Data
| ID | 92851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail R Benhura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail R |
| FAMILY NAME | Benhura |
| SIGNATURE | BENHURA A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Women's University in Africa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9157-7670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Empowering the unseen
Despite increasing recognition of the agency of marginalised groups, the specific agency of women with disabilities from a poverty perspective remains underexplored in academic research. This study addresses this gap by investigating how women with disabilities navigate and mitigate poverty in both rural and urban settings. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with women from resource-constrained contexts, this paper examines the varied expe…
Navigating Poverty in Later Life
Economic instability, ineffective governmental oversight, and bureaucratic inefficiencies have been some of the reasons contributing to a deterioration in Zimbabwean pensioners’ living standards. In understanding the risks associated with the diminishing value of pensions and how post-retirement aspirations and caring commitments are still being met, our study was interested in Zimbabwean pensioners’ experiences with the protection framework. In …
Old Age Poverty
Despite having over 500 000 pensioners, Zimbabwe is far from guaranteeing its elderly an effective social security system. The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) – is embroiled in numerous cases of corruption. Similar criticisms have also been levelled against personal pension schemes with the living potential of pensioners in Zimbabwe (who receive in some cases less than US$1 monthly), continuing to deteriorate. In contributing new data t…
Informality in Zimbabwe’s Urban Areas and the Resilience of Indigenous Solutions to Risk During the Pandemic
This study examined the role of networks and reciprocated assistance in curtailing the risk arising from an absence of centralised social protection programmes. Given how non-state interventions constitute a key part of the endogenous networks to social risk reduction, we also explored how the knowledge of exogenous emergency relief is localised and utilised. In examining these issues, in-depth interviews were done with a purposively selected sam…
Treading through a trajectory of broken statutes
Zimbabwean internally displaced children's (IDC) access to education is largely hindered by non-adherence to international instruments as well as failure to implement these into domestic law. The paper aims to unpack the conditions leading to the failure to implement both international and domestic laws in IDPs' rights to education in Zimbabwe. In this qualitative research, access to education is analysed through the lens of rights and obligation…
Interrogating gendered exclusion of womxn in Covid-19 vaccination policies and practices in Southern Africa
In the wake of evolving strains and the tenacity of COVID-19 infections and fatalities, many governments have introduced vaccination policies to curb the spread of the virus. This public health move has raised new legal/constitutional, ethical and medical questions on the necessity and effectiveness of the vaccines. However, of particular significance to this paper are the gendered implications of vaccination programmes. This paper examines wheth…
Exploring Gendered Monitoring and Evaluation of the Social Protection System in Angola
Nearly two decades after the intermittent but protracted civil war in Angola, the country is still recovering from some of the long-term adverse effects of this strife. Extensive infrastructural destruction and socio-economic fluidity aggravate these long-term effects, threatening the efficacy and effectiveness of social protection (SP) services. Furthermore, Angola’s paradox stems from its oil-rich status on the one hand and extreme poverty for …
Delineating caveats for (quality) education during displacement
This qualitative article aims at unraveling the impact of displacement on the access to (quality) education. The article is premised on the inherent role played by education to equip displaced children with functional skills and act as a liberating force in the face of forced displacement. Using purposive homogeneous sampling from Hopley and Caledonia settlements for internally displaced people (Zimbabwe), the article attempts to evaluate effects…
Invisible existence’
Involuntary human mobility within and outside national borders continue to raise connotations of these migrants being dispossessed of more than their physical shelter. In 2005, the Zimbabwean government demolished hundreds of buildings, which it had condemned as illegal through a program code named Operation Murambatsvina. Likewise, for the people dislodged by this program, the article contends that internal displacement did not only lead to loss…
Humanitarianism in Praxis? Probing Power Dynamics around Key Actors in Zimbabwe's Forced Migration
Displaced and Dispossessed
Invisible existence’
Involuntary human mobility within and outside national borders continue to raise connotations of these migrants being dispossessed of more than their physical shelter. In 2005, the Zimbabwean government demolished hundreds of buildings, which it had condemned as illegal through a program code named Operation Murambatsvina. Likewise, for the people dislodged by this program, the article contends that internal displacement did not only lead to loss…
Empowering the unseen
Despite increasing recognition of the agency of marginalised groups, the specific agency of women with disabilities from a poverty perspective remains underexplored in academic research. This study addresses this gap by investigating how women with disabilities navigate and mitigate poverty in both rural and urban settings. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with women from resource-constrained contexts, this paper examines the varied expe…
Informality in Zimbabwe’s Urban Areas and the Resilience of Indigenous Solutions to Risk During the Pandemic
This study examined the role of networks and reciprocated assistance in curtailing the risk arising from an absence of centralised social protection programmes. Given how non-state interventions constitute a key part of the endogenous networks to social risk reduction, we also explored how the knowledge of exogenous emergency relief is localised and utilised. In examining these issues, in-depth interviews were done with a purposively selected sam…
Humanitarianism in Praxis? Probing Power Dynamics around Key Actors in Zimbabwe's Forced Migration
Displaced and Dispossessed
Delineating caveats for (quality) education during displacement
This qualitative article aims at unraveling the impact of displacement on the access to (quality) education. The article is premised on the inherent role played by education to equip displaced children with functional skills and act as a liberating force in the face of forced displacement. Using purposive homogeneous sampling from Hopley and Caledonia settlements for internally displaced people (Zimbabwe), the article attempts to evaluate effects…
Invisible existence’
Involuntary human mobility within and outside national borders continue to raise connotations of these migrants being dispossessed of more than their physical shelter. In 2005, the Zimbabwean government demolished hundreds of buildings, which it had condemned as illegal through a program code named Operation Murambatsvina. Likewise, for the people dislodged by this program, the article contends that internal displacement did not only lead to loss…
Humanitarianism in Praxis? Probing Power Dynamics around Key Actors in Zimbabwe's Forced Migration
Treading through a trajectory of broken statutes
Zimbabwean internally displaced children's (IDC) access to education is largely hindered by non-adherence to international instruments as well as failure to implement these into domestic law. The paper aims to unpack the conditions leading to the failure to implement both international and domestic laws in IDPs' rights to education in Zimbabwe. In this qualitative research, access to education is analysed through the lens of rights and obligation…
Interrogating gendered exclusion of womxn in Covid-19 vaccination policies and practices in Southern Africa
In the wake of evolving strains and the tenacity of COVID-19 infections and fatalities, many governments have introduced vaccination policies to curb the spread of the virus. This public health move has raised new legal/constitutional, ethical and medical questions on the necessity and effectiveness of the vaccines. However, of particular significance to this paper are the gendered implications of vaccination programmes. This paper examines wheth…
Exploring Gendered Monitoring and Evaluation of the Social Protection System in Angola
Nearly two decades after the intermittent but protracted civil war in Angola, the country is still recovering from some of the long-term adverse effects of this strife. Extensive infrastructural destruction and socio-economic fluidity aggravate these long-term effects, threatening the efficacy and effectiveness of social protection (SP) services. Furthermore, Angola’s paradox stems from its oil-rich status on the one hand and extreme poverty for …
Informality in Zimbabwe’s Urban Areas and the Resilience of Indigenous Solutions to Risk During the Pandemic
This study examined the role of networks and reciprocated assistance in curtailing the risk arising from an absence of centralised social protection programmes. Given how non-state interventions constitute a key part of the endogenous networks to social risk reduction, we also explored how the knowledge of exogenous emergency relief is localised and utilised. In examining these issues, in-depth interviews were done with a purposively selected sam…
Old Age Poverty
Despite having over 500 000 pensioners, Zimbabwe is far from guaranteeing its elderly an effective social security system. The National Social Security Authority (NSSA) – is embroiled in numerous cases of corruption. Similar criticisms have also been levelled against personal pension schemes with the living potential of pensioners in Zimbabwe (who receive in some cases less than US$1 monthly), continuing to deteriorate. In contributing new data t…
Empowering the unseen
Despite increasing recognition of the agency of marginalised groups, the specific agency of women with disabilities from a poverty perspective remains underexplored in academic research. This study addresses this gap by investigating how women with disabilities navigate and mitigate poverty in both rural and urban settings. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with women from resource-constrained contexts, this paper examines the varied expe…
Navigating Poverty in Later Life
Economic instability, ineffective governmental oversight, and bureaucratic inefficiencies have been some of the reasons contributing to a deterioration in Zimbabwean pensioners’ living standards. In understanding the risks associated with the diminishing value of pensions and how post-retirement aspirations and caring commitments are still being met, our study was interested in Zimbabwean pensioners’ experiences with the protection framework. In …
Political science (11 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Population (4 works)