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Evaluating the Gezira Scheme: Black Box or Pandora’s Box?

In: Rural Development in Tropical Africa

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  • Tony Barnett

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The Gezira scheme has frequently been cited as an example of ‘successful’ agricultural development. It was inaugurated more than fifty years ago and remains an important model for agricultural planning in the Sudan, and elsewhere. In evaluating the Gezira, it is necessary to say something about evaluation techniques. The discussion in this chapter begins with some general comments about evaluation. Questions are posed in connection with social cost benefit analysis which is by far the most common approach to evaluation, and a contrasting view is sketched. This is done from a perspective which assumes that there is a difference between planning once and for all transformation and planning for change. From this position, the project is seen as a series of socio-economic relationships existing through time, whose internal movement and development should be the prime objects of evaluation.

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  • Tony Barnett, 1981. "Evaluating the Gezira Scheme: Black Box or Pandora’s Box?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Judith Heyer & Pepe Roberts & Gavin Williams (ed.), Rural Development in Tropical Africa, chapter 12, pages 306-324, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05318-6_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05318-6_12
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