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An Evaluation of Donor Agencies’ Policies on Participatory Development: the case of Ghana

Yes / This paper critically evaluates guidelines concerning participatory development by the World Bank and USAID. It focuses on the different conceptual frameworks adopted in order to examine the differing ways of adopting participation in their development agenda.
A literature-based method was adopted and the analysis included evaluation of five documented experiences including the Ghana Secondary Education Improvement Project and Ghana Water Sanitation and Hygiene Project from both the World Bank and USAID. Baum project cycle stages have been taken as activities for project participation. The findings are; the need for better planning; ensuring sustainability; and involving beneficiaries.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/13089
Date02 February 2017
CreatorsDanquah, Joseph K., Analoui, Farhad, Koomson, Yvonne E.D.
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, Accepted Manuscript
Rights© 2018 Wiley. This is the peer-reviewed version of the following article: Danquah JK, Analoui F and Koomson YED (2018) An Evaluation of Donor Agencies’ Policies on Participatory Development: the Case of Ghana. Development Policy Review. 36(S1): O138-O158, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12227. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

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