Data collection comprising interviews with program tutors and beneficiaries, tuition observation and daily reporting on manner of module delivery, reaction and participation of beneficiaries (cocoa farmers) will gathered from March to June 2018.
Project Name: Growing Up Free: An effective response to child trafficking in Ghana’s Volta, Central and Greater Accra Regions Project Period: May 2017 – May 2019 Client: Free The Slaves PDA has been contracted to do a follow up baseline study (2016) and follow-up study (Summative Evaluation 2019) on the prevalence and awareness of Child labour…
Project Name: Impact Evaluation (pilot, baseline and endline) of British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme Project Period: 2015 to 2018 PDA was hired to partner in the impact evaluation of this global education programme being implemented from 2015 to 2018. The programme is co-funded by the British Council and DFID. PDA is handling specific tasks in…
Project Name: Impact Study of Root Capital’s Agricultural Enterprises that link Smallholder Farmers to Market in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (Root Capital Inc.) Project Period: April 2017 – December 2020 The study is mainly quantitative, and uses the experimental difference-in-difference framework to design and assess impact of Root Capital’s financial support for smallholder farmers. More…
Project Name: mNutrition Project Project Period: Project is expected to end in 2018 mNutrition, launched in September 2013, is an initiative aimed at improving knowledge among rural farming communities especially women and support beneficial behaviour change as well as increasing demand for nutrition and agriculture extension services. The mNutrition initiative will work in 10 countries…
The Youth Forward initiative aims to improve the capacity of hundreds of thousands of young women and men in Ghana and Uganda to get jobs, grow their businesses and access finance to expand the opportunities available to them. This programme is in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation and implemented by four consortia comprising 28 organisations…
PDA has a strong network of over 50 part-time associates who work on specific programmes as they arise. All associates are experienced professionals working in the development context and have the required skills to deliver. They are well versed in participatory methodologies. This enables PDA to engage in different geographical areas and work with staff…
About our Research, Evaluations and Assessments Work… PDA has a strong reputation for qualitative research having evolved our practice and capacity over the last 15 years with our roots in Participatory Rapid/Rural Appraisal (PRA) methods and approaches. Several of PDA’s senior personnel and associates were part of some of the early PRA work undertaken in…
About our Training… PDA uses a wide variety of participatory and experiential methods in its training programmes. We believe that if people are engaged in an active learning process, they will learn more effectively and retain more, as well as have more fun. Very often our training processes simply unlock and gather up the knowledge…