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Pledges not kept: JICA's project challenges in Ghana

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  • Georgios Tsopanakis

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Japan's project aid initiatives for capacity development still occupy a large part of the aid discourse of the country's development cooperation programme. Over the years, Japan's development rhetoric has been significantly adapted to the wider policy shifts of Western donor countries and has introduced in its programme and project documents such terms as ‘ownership’, ‘needs-based approach’, and ‘participatory’ initiatives in order to achieve more ‘sustainable’ results. Furthermore, the importance of ‘institutional memory’ has been repeatedly highlighted by Japan as an important element for greater project effectiveness. This article investigates how this development rhetoric translates in Japan International Cooperation Agency's (JICA) project practice in a three-year community-based initiative in rural Ghana. The results illustrate that despite the short-term benefits the project has brought to the targeted communities, the development practice of JICA falls short of its discursive representation and more effort is needed by JICA toward a more committed and inclusive project practice.

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  • Georgios Tsopanakis, 2015. "Pledges not kept: JICA's project challenges in Ghana," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(1), pages 86-98, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:25:y:2015:i:1:p:86-98
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2015.984657
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