Assessing Value for Money in Integrated Development Programmes – The Case of a Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana
dc.contributor.author | Acharya, Arnab | |
dc.contributor.author | Hilton, Tom | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Ghana | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-09T16:59:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-09T16:59:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-09-30 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Acharya, A. and Hilton2, T. (2018) 'Assessing Value for Money in Integrated Development Programmes – The Case of a Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana', in The Millennium Villages: Lessons on Evaluating Integrated Rural Development, IDS Bulletin 49.4, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14115 | |
dc.description.abstract | Through the use of cost–consequence analysis (CCA), a recent evaluation of a Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in Ghana revealed it to have represented poor value for money (VFM), with comparator projects elsewhere seeming to deliver similar results at less than half the cost. However, complex integrated development programmes (IDPs) such as the MVP pose serious challenges for VFM assessments. IDPs target system-wide changes in resource-scarce contexts, making expensive foundational investments in infrastructure and other systems. The unit costs of benefits will tend to be high in the short or medium term. In contrast, many standalone projects, showing greater efficiency, may target similar outcomes, but do so by building upon existing prior investments. In this article, comparing three VFM approaches, we argue that CCA is the most appropriate for IDPs. However, its applications must be mindful of the contextual differences in which the comparator standalone projects and the IDP were implemented. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department for International Development (DFID) | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;49.4 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited, the work is not used for commercial purposes, and no modifications or adaptations are made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Rural Development | en |
dc.title | Assessing Value for Money in Integrated Development Programmes – The Case of a Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Rural Futures | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2018.161 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-09-30 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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