EDUCATION RESEARCH
COMPLEMENTARY EDUCATION Complementary Basic Education Programme, Government of Ghana and DFID supported (Feb, 2013 to November 2018) Associates for Change in collaboration with Crown Agents UK are currently managing a five year Complementary Basic Education Programme. AfC is managing the research, monitoring and evaluation technical support and oversight which entail providing educational advisory services to the Ghana Education Service. AfC has a Senior Education Advisor, an M&E Manager and M&E Officer providing technical advisory support to the Government of Ghana and 10 Non-Governmental organisations implementing the Complementary Basic Education Programme. AfC also sees to all the monitoring framework and curriculum material development and assessment processes which are part of the project. Some of the activities AfC engaged in include: Providing technical advisory support to the Government of Ghana and several Non-Governmental organisations implementing the Complementary Basic Education Programme. Oversight to the all the material development and assessment processes which are […]
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
– Education, Poverty, and Pro Poor Policy How equitable and sustainable is secondary school fee abolition in sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Ghana, University of Cambridge (February 2021- present) Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have made progress towards increasing enrolment in primary education. Most of these governments see secondary education as the next frontier. Fee abolition is an increasingly popular policy to improve access to secondary schooling, and Ghana is one of the pioneers in this regard. The Government of Ghana abolished all fees for Senior High School (SHS) as of the 2017-18 school year, in line with the ruling party’s campaign promise. This major policy initiative provides a unique opportunity to study the impact and implementation of secondary school fee abolition in real-time and draw lessons for policymakers in Ghana and other countries that are considering the abolition of secondary school fees. This research will conduct a rigorous, mixed-method evaluation […]
SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY
Network Improvement and LV Bifurcation Project –MIDA, MCA 2021 The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Government of Ghana (GoG) through the Millennium Development Authority (MiDA) agreed to an extensive power sector development program. The LV Bifurcation and Network Improvement in Dansoman and Kaneshie ECG Districts aimed at improving the quality of power supply in the communities, reducing the losses in the power distribution and enhancing customer satisfaction. MiDA engaged SAL Consult and AfC to identify and assess the project’s impact by developing a Resettlement Action Plan and Community Engagement strategy. Ac tortor vitae purus faucibus ornare supendisse sed nisi. Pretium aenean phareta gna ac placerat vestibulum lectus mauris. Rhoncus aenean vel elit scelerisque mauris pentesque pulvinar. Euismod elementum nisi quis eleifend quam. Turpis tincidunt id aliquet risus feutgiat in ante. Ac tortor vitae purus faucibus ornare suspendisse sed nisi. The Political Economic Analysis of Education in Ghana; a commissioned […]
AGRICULTURE
Final Evaluation of Enhanced Nutrition and Value Chains Project in Ghana (ENVAC) – Global Affairs Canada, World Food Programme (WFP) (2021) AFC partnered with Institut de Recherche et d’Applications des Méthodes de développement(IRAM) in conducting the final evaluation for the WFP ENVAC Project. The ENVAC Project was based on a market-based approach to tackling nutrition problems in Ghana. The project aimed to include smallholder farmers in value chains to develop nutritious complementary foods while sensitizing the general population, especially women, on the benefits of consuming such foods. The main goals of the ENVAC intervention were to improve nutrition and food security of targeted beneficiaries and improve sales of staples for staples for targeted smallholder farmers, particularly to industrial processors. Download report The Prosperity Study Literature Review by the Prosperity Project Team. Working document for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture with support from DFID, March 2001 The Ghana Market Development […]
CHILD RIGHTS AND SOCIAL PROTECTION
Ghana Country Team Lead: Mid-Term Evaluation West Africa Governance and Economic Sustainability in Extractive Areas (WAGES) project in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Guinea, World University Services of Canada (WUSC), (February 2020 – October 2020). Associates for Change conducted the Mid-Term evaluation activities of the WAGES project in Ghana, Burkina Faso and Guinea. The Mid-Term Evaluation was a formative evaluation of the project aimed at highlighting what was working well and what needed to be improved for WAGES to make further progress in achieving expected outcomes. More specifically, the mid-term evaluation sought to provide evidence on progress towards achievement of the projects’ expected outcomes, as well as evidence of any unexpected outcomes (including those that contribute to reducing inequalities between women and men as well as better inclusion and engagement of young people). This evaluation also aimed to generate knowledge about the project’s achievements and challenges, barriers and enablers (while incorporating […]