In 2015, Old Fadama, the largest informal community in Accra, was a government 'no-go zone.' Armed guards accompanied a participatory action research team and stakeholders as they began an empirical research project. Their goals: resolve wicked problems, advance collaboration theory, and provide direct services to vulnerable beneficiaries. In three years, they designed a collaboration intervention based on rigorous evidence, Ghana's culture and data from 300 core stakeholders. Sanitation policy change transformed the community, and government began to collaborate freely. By 2022, the intervention was replicated in Accra, Kumasi and eleven rural communities, providing health services to more than 10,000 kayayei (women head porters) and addressing complex challenges for 15,000 direct and hundreds of thousands of indirect beneficiaries. This collaboration intervention improved community participation, changed policy, and redefined development in theory and practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: July 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009394864
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 150 x 7 mm
- weight: 0.154kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Why cross-sector collaboration? 8
3. The Accra stakeholder platform: designing a cross-sector collaboration intervention 21
4. Confronting development as usual: process and project results 40
5. Network analysis: replicating the PAR intervention 54
6. Conclusion
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Jessica Kritz, Georgetown University, Washington DC

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