Transportation 2018, Independent Evaluation
Ghana, 2018
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GHA_2018_MCC-T_v01_M
Transportation 2018
Independent Evaluation
| Name | Country code |
|---|---|
| Ghana | GHA |
The evaluation of investments in the road infrastructure of Ghana has three main components of the design:
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Recalculate the Economic Rates of Return (ERRs) for the project using Highway Design and Management (HDM-4) Roads Economic Decision (RED) models. HDM-4 and RED are World Bank models used to assess the economic benefits of improvements in road infrastructure. This analysis will use road condition and traffic data to estimate the economic return of the roads investments.
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Conduct a performance evaluation of the roads investments. We will study road maintenance practices, assess who is using the roads and whether reductions in transportation costs are shared with users. The performance evaluation will use project records and administrative data, a vehicle intercept survey, focus groups, and interviews with roads officials and commercial operators.
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Impact evaluation that includes a spatial analysis of economic activity along the roads (still in design).
Other
Community, households, administrative units, other
Scope
| Topic | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Transportation | MCC Sector |
Coverage
The project took place on feeder roads in the Northern Region, Volta Region, Eastern Region and Central Region of Ghana, as well as the N1 highway in Accra and a trunk road in the Ashanti region.
Road users
Producers and sponsors
| Name |
|---|
| Mathematica Policy Research |
| Name |
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| Millennium Challenge Corporation |
Sampling
The expanded vehicle intercept survey will be carried out on three days per road, including both a market and nonmarket day. On the N1, we will randomly sample approximately 1,000 vehicles. This translates into approximately 0.5 percent of all traffic moving in both directions along the road. On high-traffic feeder roads (more than 1,000 vehicles per day), we will aim to sample 20 percent of all vehicles traveling along the road. For the trunk road and most feeder roads with a lower traffic volume, we plan to sample a larger proportion of vehicles, potentially on only one market and one nonmarket day.
Survey instrument
Community (traffic and vehicle operating cost survey),
Administrative (transportation agency key informant interviews),
Household (vehicle intercept survey and focus groups)
Data collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 2018 |
| Name |
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| Daovtech Design Group |
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Millennium Challenge Corporation
https://data.mcc.gov/evaluations/index.php/catalog/219
Cost: None
Data Access
| Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? |
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| no |
Contacts
| Name | |
|---|---|
| Monitoring & Evaluation Division of the Millennium Challenge Corporation | impact-eval@mcc.gov |
Metadata production
DDI_GHA_2018_MCC-T_v01_M
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Mathematica Policy Research | Independent Evaluator |
2018-07-02
Metadata version
Version 01 (July 2018)
Version 02 (June 2020). Edited version based on Version 1 (DDI-MCC-GHA-IE-TRANS-2018-v01) produced by the Millennium Challenge Corporation
Roads users