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Between power and perception: Understanding youth perspectives in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in Ghana

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  • Boadu, Evans Sakyi
  • Ile, Isioma

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Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) approaches have been touted as an important concept for local participation in social interventions programmes. Utilizing a process analysis approaches, the PM&E data gathered through key informant interviews, formal surveys, and policy frameworks were analyzed. The study revealed three dominant power struggles between youth and programme implementers in three districts at the Greater Accra region, Ghana. The first and pervasive form of power dynamics involves the youth and programme implementers. The second involves a variety of arrangements with the government on one hand and implementers and youth on the other side. The third is who qualifies to be a beneficiary and for that matter participate in the PM&E. In these three forms of power struggles the paper reveals superior implementers control of who participate in the programme PM&E and at what stage in the process. The power imbalance between programme implementer and target beneficiaries impeded the level of beneficiaries’ participation in the PM&E.

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  • Boadu, Evans Sakyi & Ile, Isioma, 2019. "Between power and perception: Understanding youth perspectives in participatory monitoring and evaluation (PM&E) in Ghana," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:epplan:v:77:y:2019:i:c:s0149718918303318
    DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.101683
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