Country Program Strategic Plan – Ghana
TMG assisted Ghana in achieving broad-based, sustainable, market-oriented economic growth by increasing real, per capita gross domestic product and improving the quality of the human resource base.
TMG
TMG assisted Ghana in achieving broad-based, sustainable, market-oriented economic growth by increasing real, per capita gross domestic product and improving the quality of the human resource base.
TIP is an initiative designed to address the constraints that limited private sector investments and production for export.
Continuing efforts to cast the Africa Development Group’s operational and programming activities in a longer term context, TMG assessed key development challenges facing the Continent. TMG focused on taking a pro-active stance in regards to AfDB’s role in Africa’s development efforts and situated AfDB’s future actions in the context of the current and prospective challenges of the Continent.
Objectives of this project were to decentralize action to improve the quality of education at the zone, cluster, and school levels.
Addressing the need to improve primary education overall and widely held attitudes which placed a low value on the education of girls, TMG increased allocations of the total Government of Malawi budget to the education sector and the primary sub-sector.
TMG strengthened local support represented by the Nigeria Opportunities Industrialization Centers (NOIC) by increasing the number of qualified and trained management staff and upgrading supportive equipment and facilities.
TMG supported efforts to provide quality basic education on an equitable and expanded basis by developing a regionally focused integrated family health program and building upon reform efforts to reduce governance constraints in the education and health sectors and demand transparency and accountability from the government.
TMG and American Institutes for Research (AIR) jointly implemented the Programme Haitien d’Appui a la Reforme de l’Education (PHARE) in Haiti with two other partners.
In conducting this evaluation, TMG analytically examined the ACE project to: 1) determine how appropriate the ACE approach was for capacity building to each client organization; 2) determine the extent to which ACE has achieved its intended results for each client organizations, what factors facilitated and/or hindered the achievements of planned results and what are the remaining gaps/weaknesses in systems support for each organization; 3) determine the extent to which the capacity building provided by ACE has contributed to the client organizations’ overall performance in delivery of HIV/AIDS programs; 4) determine the cost-effectiveness of the ACE interventions; 5) identify the key lessons learned for capacity building programs in Uganda and elsewhere; and 6) identify positive or negative unintended results from ACE’s interventions and what factors determined such unintended results.
For the Institutional Support Services Contract to support the Office of Science and Technology, TMG provided administrative and programmatic technical support. Over a two year period, TMG hired over two dozen staff and determined their scopes of work using a collaborative, discussion, and needs based process. Activities by TMG also included obtaining security clearances and creating performance evaluation protocols.