Assessment of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty programme in Karaga district, Ghana. Issue 4 (19th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sulemana, Mohammed; Malongza, Bukari Francis Issahaku; Abdulai, Mohammed
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 29:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 437
• Page End: 447
• Publication Date: 2019-05-19
• Subjects: Aid – Development policies -- Governance and public policy -- Sub-Saharan Africa; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1551859
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article assesses the contribution of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme in reducing rural poverty in the Karaga district of Northern Ghana, using a mixed research design to compare the livelihoods of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. It concludes that the programme is contributing to poverty reduction among the poor and vulnerable, and recommends that school children benefiting from LEAP should be exempted from paying extra expenses such as examination and PTA fees. There should also be a system to provide subsidies for agriculture inputs to enable beneficiaries to engage in agriculture to promote longer term poverty alleviation.