Tracking Local Development

ERG Meeting

12 Februari 2009

Setup of the project

Preparation

• Inventory of donor-funded activities

• Selection of areas in northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso

• Inventory of evaluation practice in selected areas in Ghana

Setup of the project

Overall design

• Three rounds of workshops + revisit

• Three workshops per round

• Present, past, no interventions

• Life histories of participants

• Student projects (1st set ready by March)

Results of the project

Methods developed so far

• Useful approach: holistic, participatory

• Innovations: – All stages: gender and age specific– Wealth classes – Evaluation of interventions per domain and

wealth class

Results of the project

Methods to develop this round

• Link between present and past interventions: valuation matrix of present and past opinions

• Link between perceived and actual interventions: documentation and interviews at NGO level

Highlights

Life histories

Langbinsi,

Sandema

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Life histories

• Total 178 participants

• Brief ‘survey’

• Total 2000 persons information

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Time lines

• Gender, status and age-dependent

• Broad range of sectors

• Focus on droughts, diseases, certain crop introductions, changes in chieftencies

Langbinsi

Langbinsi

Trends

• Generally positive about interventions, but with view of subsequent disadvantages

• Natural capital– Land: new farming methods and tillage, but

fertility becomes a problem– Water: new clean sources and treatmants, but

siltation and conflicts over use, drying– Crops: new crops with many advantages, but

old crops disappear

Langbinsi

Trends

• Physical capital– Roads: new roads provide access, but need

maintenance– Buildings: new materials are better but are

more expensive

Langbinsi

Trends

• Social capital– Family relationships: man and wife now take

decisions together, but breakdown of extended families (care function)

– Social relationships: better understanding between tribes, religions, but more individualisation and less respect for elders

Langbinsi

Trends

• Cultural capital– Religion: more Christianity and Islam, but the

rituals are disappearing– Old costly traditions disappear, but old dances

and music is disappearing– Rented musical installations avoid people

noticing the low number of visitors to a funeral– Clothing: cheaper, more choice, but indecent

or ‘foreign’

Langbinsi

Wealth (but: rich, wealth, influence)

• Very rich– Women traders, tractors, three meals, good

clothing, go to hospital, zinc roof, three days funeral

• Average– Most people, farmers, share bullock, basic

food, new clothing for festivals, mixed illness treatment, start to see sheet roofs, one day funeral

Langbinsi

Wealth (but: rich, wealth, influence)

• Very poor– Old women, widows, ill, handicaped, lazy,

impotent (no children), crazy. No land or little, hoes, beg food, no smoke from cooking, dirty clothes, herbal medicine, no house to sleep in, no music during funeral.

Langbinsi

Interventions

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INCOF cotton PAS cashew feeder road liquid fert.

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Best projects

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