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
Life histories
100
90
Source: life history survey 2008
% of population
80
70
60
None
50
Primary
40
Secondary
Tertiary
30
20
10
0
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
Birth decade
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Life histories
% with at least primary education
100
90
80
Langbinsi
70
Sandema
60
To
50
40
30
20
10
Source: life history survey 2008
0
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
Birth decade
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Life histories
70
Langbinsi
% with non-farm occupation
60
Sandema
To
50
40
30
20
10
0
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s
1940s
Birth decade
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Life histories
90
% of population christian
80
70
Langbinsi
Sandema
To
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
< 1950
1950s
1960s
Birth decade
1970s
> 1980
Langbinsi
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
100
90
80
G
70
C
60
O/P
N
50
40
30
20
10
0
N
P
H
E
S
C
Langbinsi
Interventions
Positive impact
30
Number of projects
25
20
15
10
5
0
VP
P
A
w ealth class
VR
VR
Langbinsi
Interventions
•
Best interventions
25
20
15
10
5
0
schools
borehole
PAS clinics
weighing
clinics
CRS/MoH and
PAS maize
smallstock
PAS
Langbinsi
Interventions
•
Best interventions
25
20
15
10
5
0
INCOF cotton
PAS cashew
feeder road
liquid fert.
Sandema
Tô
Tô
Best projects
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
school
health clinic
borehole
road
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Worst projects
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
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Poverty and benefit
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
VP
P
A
Relative size
Relative benefit
R
VR