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Geography, University of Ghana, Legon, under the direction of the Ghana Project Director, Dr.
KS Amanor.
Subject to a positive assessment of its findings, the experience developed in this sub-project
would commend it for inclusion in the full research study to follow the scoping phase of the
research.
5.1.6 Other aspects of research management
Two workshops were held by the research team – a one-day inception workshop in Oxford
(attended by the UK and Ghana project leaders, the UK economist and a representative of the
NRSP) and a 2-day mid-term field workshop, at Dodowa in Ghana (attended by all three senior
members of the research team, and the four research assistants). The inception workshop was
preceded by a preparatory meeting in London.
The original plan to involve key stakeholders and informants in an initial workshop in Ghana was
dropped, following indications that excessive use of workshops in other programmes was already
leading to low participation and disappointing results. Individual interviews and small group
meetings were anyway felt likely to produce a richer set of responses given the innovative (and
somewhat sensitive) nature of this research.
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