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LOCAL GOVERNANCE POVERTY REDUCTION SUPPORT PROGRAMME
The Local Governance Poverty Reduction
Support Programme (LGPRSP) supported the implementation and
monitoring of the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS I) in
its target districts through the strengthening of the capacity
of district structures to design and implement target-group
specific and gender sensitive programmes. The thrust of the
Programme was to work with the political and administrative
structures of the district as well as private sector actors and
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to prepare district level
poverty profiles and maps that would give indications of how
poverty manifests itself among different socio-economic groups.
The poverty maps would also indicate how poverty presents itself
in spatial terms in the district
The first step in undertaking the
assignment involved a review of the current approaches and
methodologies being used by donors, Non-Governmental
Organisations (NGOs) and other development partners to tackle
poverty. This was followed by interactive dialogue sessions with
district and community level stakeholders in Kintampo and
Atebubu Districts to corroborate data from the consultations
with national level development partner agencies. The
interactions were also used to elicit their perceptions on
poverty and learn from their experience with poverty reduction
interventions. The outcome included the perceptions and
indicators of poverty from the perspectives of district level
stakeholders and community level stakeholders, as well as
current and future (suggested) coping strategies of the poor....MORE<<
DISTRICT POVERTY
PROFILING AND MAPPING |
How
To Do Guide
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