SAGA Progress Report

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SAGA Progress Report
April, 2003

I. RESEARCH
1. Ghana

The last six months have focused on defining a framework for the work program with ISSER. A workshop was held in Accra in October with a range of stakeholders and, in consultation with the USAID mission, it was agreed to pursue four lines of enquiry: (i) a volume of papers, primarily written by locally based Ghanaians, on "Understanding Poverty in Ghana"; (ii) launching a project on collecting and analyzing panel data sets for Ghana at the community level; (iii) building bridges between quantitative and qualitative analyses of poverty; and (iv) analysis of land tenure issues in Ghana.

Since October, (i) the table of contents for the understanding poverty volume has been finalized, and the sub-contract from Cornell is in the process of being issued; (ii) a meeting, which was culmination of an email dialogue, was held at Yale with ISSER and with some of the leading panel analysts on Africa, to sharpen the proposal for submission to SISERA; and (iii) a workshop was planned to take place in Accra to bring together leading quantitative and qualitative analysts of poverty in Ghana, based primarily inside but also from outside Ghana.

In the next six months, (i) the first drafts of the Understanding Poverty papers will be received and commented upon; (ii) the panel proposal will be finalized and submitted to SISERA; (iii) the Qual-Quant workshop will be held in Accra on May 21-22, and the next stage of the work program will be designed; and (iv) discussions will be held with USAID-Accra on the land tenure issues and the needs of the mission.

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