Foreign aid and Ghana’s development: United States Agency for International Development’s (usaid) contributions to Savelugu-Nanton

Mensah, Doris Ewurabena (2022) Foreign aid and Ghana’s development: United States Agency for International Development’s (usaid) contributions to Savelugu-Nanton. Masters thesis, Northern Arizona University.

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Abstract

USAID has for decades been one of the major donors to Ghana as a country and to some communities in the country. The USAID undertakes varying aid programs and projects in different communities. How do these projects or programs affect community development in the recipient countries? This study identifies some of the key projects of USAID in providing the basic health needs of the people in the Savelugu-Nanton district, which are the health aid projects of Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) and Resiliency In Northern Ghana (RING). The study questions the impacts of USAID’s projects in rural communities, specifically, the Savelugu/Nanton district. The analysis of the study makes use of a qualitative method, with a specific focus on a comparative case study method and a before-after analysis. Primary sources of data for this research were gathered using sources from archival work and interview questions. Purposive sampling was also used to gather respondents for the interview.The study theorizes that in countries, health aid projects should be more likely to lead to community development due to the external benefits they can yield besides the specified objectives of the projects. The study also theorizes that health aid projects in beneficiary communities should lead to the development of those beneficiaries more than the development of the non-beneficiary communities. The findings that the study gathered suggest that health aid from USAID correlated with rural development in the studied cases. The study also found that aid received in beneficiary communities contributed to those rural communities’ development whereas non-beneficiary communities continued to remain underdeveloped. The study further makes a conjecture that the broader effect of the analysis is that aid that is channeled toward rural sector development can contribute to the overall development of the country. Keywords: USAID, Savelugu-Nanton District, Ghana, Development, International Aid Organizations rural communities, RING, and IRS.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Publisher’s Statement:	© Copyright is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the Cline Library, Northern Arizona University. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.
Keywords:	Ghana; United States Agency For International Development (USAID); Foreign aid; Indoor Residual Spraying; Community development projects; Africa
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Student
Department/Unit:	Graduate College > Theses and Dissertations College of Social and Behavioral Science > Politics and International Affairs
Date Deposited:	13 Jun 2023 16:54
Last Modified:	13 Jun 2023 16:54
URI:	https://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/6007

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