TWEAPEASE, Ghana — If aid workers, government officials and members of the private sector were to all visit an aid project, what different lessons might they come away with?
On a recent visit to Ghana, Devex had the opportunity to find out. The Germany-based Exposure and Dialogue Programme and CARE International Ghana took a group of senior-level government officials, development workers and private sector representatives to visit to the cocoa fields of central Ghana. The program was meant to provide “a personal, hands-on experience with people on the ground of the developing world,” said Jörg Hilgers, EDP program coordinator specializing in Africa.
In groups of two, 13 German visitors and Devex split up and spent 72 hours living with a local facilitator and a host family in some of the most remote cocoa areas near Kumasi, Ghana. Following their overnight field visit, participants returned for a two-day discussion.