An impact evaluation design for the Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana

Edoardo Masset, Arnab Acharya, Chris Barnett and Tony Dogbe

Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2013, vol. 5, issue 2, 137-157

Abstract: This article details the design of an impact evaluation of the Millennium Villages Project in Northern Ghana. The evaluation is particularly challenging because the intervention cannot be randomised; it is clustered in a group of homogeneous communities and likely to generate spill-over effects. We propose a difference-in-differences design selecting control communities based on a propensity score and collecting five rounds of yearly data. We address a number of evaluation questions in relation to testing the breaking of the poverty trap, assessing project externalities, the role of qualitative research, cost-effectiveness and project synergies, sustainability and scalability in the presence of scale economies.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/19439342.2013.790914

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