Tracking Local Development

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• Tracking Local Development
• ERG Meeting
• 12 Februari 2009

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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

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• Highlights
• Life histories
• Langbinsi,
• Sandema
• Tô

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• Life histories
• Total 178 participants
• Brief survey
• Total 2000 persons information

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• Life histories

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• Life histories

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• Life histories

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• Life histories

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• Langbinsi
• Time lines
• Gender, status and age-dependent
• Broad range of sectors
• Focus on droughts, diseases, certain crop
  introductions, changes in chieftencies

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• Langbinsi

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• 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

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• Langbinsi
• Trends
• Physical capital
• Roads new roads provide access, but need
  maintenance
• Buildings new materials are better but are more
  expensive

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• Langbinsi
• Interventions

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• Langbinsi
• Interventions

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• Langbinsi
• Interventions
• Best interventions

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• Langbinsi
• Interventions
• Best interventions

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• Sandema

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• Tô

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• Tô
• Best projects

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• Tô
• Worst projects

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• Tô
• Poverty and benefit