This evaluation of the Conflict Prevention and Resolution Portfolio of the UNDP Ghana has been undertaken as part of a larger exercise by the Conflict Prevention Team (CPT) of the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR/UNDP). That larger effort is examining the impacts and effectiveness of a series of BCPR-supported conflict prevention programs in several locations around the world. CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA) was engaged to lead the evaluation process. At the same time, the Interagency Framework Team for the Coordination of Preventive Action (Framework Team or FT) also expressed interest in a review of its activities. This report, therefore, includes a short section regarding the role of the Framework Team in the Ghana program. It should be noted that the UNDP work is implemented through partners; UNDP does not implement programs directly.

 This fact presents a challenge in evaluation: one must consider, first, whether UNDP staff have made appropriate choices of focus and partners in consultation with government, and, second, whether those partners have been effective in program implement¬ation. In any case, this is not an evaluation of the work of any of the partner organizations in themselves, which would be quite a large undertaking. In an overarching sense, this evaluation was undertaken to assess the processes, achievements and challenges of the UNDP conflict prevention portfolio in Ghana to date, and to provide perspectives on the way forward for the program. The full evaluation text provides a list of specific purposes, objectives and scope of the evaluation process