Most project evaluations are completed by the same agencies that carry out the projects, 16 and look only at whether immediate objectives for example, building a well were achieved - not whether the projects resulted in meaningful impact for the people they served. The program had little other impact on students' knowledge, attitudes, and behavior, or on the incidence of teen childbearing. However, in a baseline survey we found that people were not aware of the existence of these committees and their potential for improving education.
This paper evaluates three different interventions to encourage beneficiaries' participation through these committees: providing information, training community members in a new testing tool, and training and organizing volunteers to hold remedial reading camps for illiterate children.
We find that these interventions had no impact on community involvement in public schools, and no impact on teacher effort or learning outcomes in those schools. The paper is a randomized controlled trial. See Glewwe and Kremer for a thorough discussion of evidence regarding developing-world education programs. Table of Contents. Poorly executed programs Ineffective programs Harmful aid projects For most programs, effects are unknown Sources.
It remains a "white elephant" in Kenya's arid northwest. But the electricity proved too expensive for most people, and the diversion of so much water caused environmental and economic havoc downstream. The development fund raised from selling the water was shut down in The courts convicted three of the world's largest construction firms on corruption charges and the project's chief executive was jailed.
Tens of thousands of people whose lives were ruined by the diversion are still waiting for compensation. More than 30, people were forced to move to the desert to work on the largest aid project attempted by French colonial authorities.
The African workers largely ignored French attempts to change traditional agricultural practices. By , only 6 percent of the region was developed and the infrastructure was falling apart. The World Bank took over the project in and has shown limited success with rice farming. By the infection rate had risen 12 percent.
Experts say donors rarely followed through with pledges and some programs were subject to political considerations, such as what kinds of insecticides to use, whether to buy cheap generic drugs or how much poor people should pay for mosquito nets. IE 11 is not supported.
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