The document summarizes the work of RECOUP Ghana, a research project studying the impact of education on poverty. It discusses RECOUP's goals of understanding how education affects social, economic, and health outcomes, and informing policies to benefit disadvantaged groups. It then overviews RECOUP's research strands on youth, gender, disability, skills training, and partnerships. It concludes by discussing RECOUP's capacity building activities and dissemination of findings to influence education policymaking.
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This document serves as a guide for applying the Sport for
Development (S4D) framework described in the report “Playing
the Game: A framework for successful child-focused sport for
development programmes”.
The framework can be used as a starting point for designing a
new programme, to guide the expansion of an existing one into
new locations, or to improve and re-organize specific
programmatic and organizational aspects.
The framework follows the different phases of a programme
and their respective components, and recommends best
practices (see Figure 1). For each component of each
programming stage, this toolkit offers practitioners guiding
questions and practical recommendations.
Presentation by ESRC at Interface workshop, 23rd June 2011, about ESRC's strategic priorities, maximising impact and knowledge exchange funding and support available from ESRC
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RECOUP Ghana:Work in Progress and Policy implications
1. RECOUP Ghana:
Work in Progress and Policy
implications
Dr. Leslie Casely-Hayford
Director
Associates for Change, Ghana
Presented at RECOUP/EdQual Mid-term Conference on Educational Quality and
Outcomes. 9-10th March, 2009, University of Ghana
March 9, 2009
2. Goals and vision of RECOUP
“To study the mechanisms that drive the cycle
of deprivation and to identify the policies
needed to ensure that educational outcomes
benefit the disadvantaged.”
Support policy makers with timely research
outputs in relevant areas..
3. Goals of the Conference
To share with policy makers, DPs and other
stakeholders the key results, outputs and
findings of RECOUP and EdQuall;
To receive feedback and engage on the
findings (validity, reliability, methodological
rigor; relevance and policy implications)
To provide an opportunity to network, forge
linkages;
To view the research outcomes across two
research consortium (RECOUP an EdQUALL)
4. Context of the conference
New Government and what this means for the
education reforms…
MOE is in the process of developing its new
Education Strategic Plan for the next 10
years…
National Development Plan 2010
New Education Act: decentralization
GOG Aid Policy: MDBS and SBS
5. The presentation
Introduction
Work on sub projects
Social and Human Strand (Youth, Gender and Citizenship)
Market and Economic Strand
Aid and Partnership Strand
Capacity building
Training of researchers
ICT data analysis and software
Web based training manuals on qualitative research
Dissemination of research work
Research Outputs
Dissemination channels & methods
Policy implications
6. Associates for Change (AFC)
AFC is a research and consulting firm specializing in social policy
analysis, education and social development research.
Provides research, consulting and advisory services to
government, donors and civil society organisations using a
multi-disciplinary approach.
Undertakes operational research in program design, monitoring
and evaluation.
AfC has two offices in Northern and Southern Ghana with a total
of ten staff with seven full time researchers (two senior and five
intermediate).
7. AfC Partners
International partners for RECOUP work include:
Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
University of Edinburgh
Center for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
AfC has also developed working relationships with the:
Institute for Planning and Educational Administration at the University
of Cape Coast;
Center for Social Policy Studies (CSPS), Institute of African Studies and
Department of Economics at the University of Ghana.
Center for Research in Basic Education (CRIBE),University of Education.
The University of Development Studies
8. RECOUP Research Strands
Social and Human Strand
Youth Gender and Citizenship project
Health and Fertility project
Disability project
Market and Economic Strand
Qualitative study on Skills training
Quantitative Household Survey work
Aid and Donor Partnership Strand
Public Private Partnership project
Impact of New Aid modalities in the education sector
9. RECOUP Research Outputs
Literature reviews
Meta-analysis series
Working papers
Project management documents e.g. Field guides,
Analysis and writing guide,
Field Reports-scoping reports, community profiles, etc
Community Working Paper series
Annotated Profile of RECOUP outputs
10. Youth, Gender and Citizenship (YGC)
Working Paper completed
1.“Youth Citizenship, National Unity and Poverty Alleviation: East
and West African approaches to the education of a new
generation”
Working papers in progress:
1. The making of a Ghanaian Citizen: the role of education among
urban youth from poor and non poor households.
2. The Effects of Education among Rural Youth in Northern Ghana:
an intergenerational perspective.
3. Growing up Modern in Ghana: Educational Outcomes and Social
Transition among young people across different social classes.
11. Theme 1: Health and Fertility
Research Focus:
How education impacts on the pathways women use to
negotiate health and fertility behavior;
Across all four research sites
Field Work (Dec, 2008 and will end in March, 2009)
80 in-depth interviews with women between 20-30 years of
age.
12. Theme 1: Disability mini project
Research questions
What is the local understanding and meaning of
disability?
What is the outcome of education to the disenabled
persons from the individual, family, community,
social and human levels of development?
What is the relationship between disability and
poverty? What role does education play in helping
people with disability to break out of poverty?
13. Theme 2. Market and Economic Strand
(Skills Training Qualitative)
Research questions:
‘How does skills training (both public and non-state)
contribute to labour market outcomes that help break
the cycle of deprivation for the poor’
Field Work included: 80 in-depth interviews with
master artisans and 80 interviews policy makers & key
informants in across the four sites
14. Theme 2: Market and Economic
Outputs
Preliminary Findings Report: Skill Pathways out of
Poverty: Technical and vocational skills
development: Breaking the cycle of poverty for
youth and young adults in Ghana?
Working Paper: Skills and Labour market outcomes
among youth in urban and rural Ghana: the role of
formal and informal skills training.
15. Theme 2: Household Survey work
Panel data from the Ghana Household Survey Work on
Market and Economic Outcomes to Education
conducted by the University of Oxford.
Outputs:
RECOUP working paper by Francis Teal (2008) “Does
Apprenticeship Pay Off? Evidence from Ghana”.
(RECOUP web site).
Raw Data Available on the Oxford University web site.
16. Theme 3: Aid Partnership Strand
Aid Modalities to the education sector: Interviews
conducted with DPs, MOE Senior officials and Ministry of
Finance and Economic Planning.
Second phase to commence next week.
Outputs
The Financing and Outcomes to Education: presents
important expenditure trends and educational outcomes
1987 and 2006.
Aid and Partnership Literature Review
Working Paper on the changing nature of aid modalities in
the education sector in Ghana
17. Theme 3: Public Private Partnerships
Research Questions
Is the growth in the private schools in comparison to the public schools
due to the inadequacy of the public schools?
Do private schools provide for better education than the public
schools? if so, why?
How do different types of schooling interact to affect educational
outcomes?
Field work: June to September 2009 in two research sites
18. Capacity Building of AfC Staff
International Training workshops
ICT in qualitative data analysis (Atlas-ti)
Gender and poverty analysis training;
Data collection (multi methods, transcription and
translation)
ICT survey technologies for household census
Web based training manual development on qualitative
research methodology
Research design workshops: Health and Fertility, Market
and Economic and YGC.
19. Dissemination Channels and Methods
- AFC website (www.associatesforchange.org)
- RECOUP website (http://recoup.educ.cam.ac.uk/)
Regular mail outs to partners and education stakeholders.
National Reference Group meeting
Education Sector Annual Review
Consultative meetings with individual policy makers, planners
(COTVET, PBME, MOE and GES)
Briefings with CIDA, DfID and the WB
Mid-term Conference
Collaborative fora with other organizations (NNED and GNECC—
global week of action)
20. Policy implications for the
Education Sector
qualitative and quantitative approaches to
illumine policy making. Risks in using one
methodology.
More understanding behind the trends and
numbers…
Multi disciplinary teams : sociologists,
educationalists and economists.
22. Research Consortium on Educational
Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP)
MDG inspired research project focused on the
study of Market and Economic outcomes, Social
and Human outcomes of Education related to
Health, Fertility, Gender Equality and Citizenship
RECOUP seeks to identify the pathways in which
the poor use to escape poverty and the policies
needed to ensure that educational outcomes
benefit the disadvantaged.
Five year project carried out in Ghana, India,
Kenya and Pakistan.
Associates for Change (AFC) is the lead research
agency in Ghana.