Evaluating the Gezira Scheme: Black Box or Pandora’s Box?

Tony Barnett

Chapter 12 in Rural Development in Tropical Africa, 1981, pp 306-324 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Gezira scheme has frequently been cited as an example of ‘successful’ agricultural development. It was inaugurated more than fifty years ago and remains an important model for agricultural planning in the Sudan, and elsewhere. In evaluating the Gezira, it is necessary to say something about evaluation techniques. The discussion in this chapter begins with some general comments about evaluation. Questions are posed in connection with social cost benefit analysis which is by far the most common approach to evaluation, and a contrasting view is sketched. This is done from a perspective which assumes that there is a difference between planning once and for all transformation and planning for change. From this position, the project is seen as a series of socio-economic relationships existing through time, whose internal movement and development should be the prime objects of evaluation.

Keywords: Rural Development; Labour Input; Colonial Government; Cotton Crop; Agricultural Project (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05318-6_12

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