The Resilience Against Climate Change-Social Transformation Research and Policy Advocacy (REACH-STR) Project, has identified capacity gap as the main cause of inadequate incorporation of social transformation analysis in development planning in Ghana.
This arises from a number of sources including; first and foremost a knowledge gap in the research and scientific literature on methodological approaches to analyzing social transformation, and weaknesses in institutional capacity for social transformation analyses.
“Development workers really focus on easy-to-measure things to the detriment of the core of society, which is the belief systems, the values, the norms, the ideals, the power struggles, the structures, the winners and losers among others”, he said.
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