Theme group:
Focus: Ghana, South-Africa and Pakistan
Telephone: +31
E-mail:
a.altaf@ascleiden.nl
From 2007 onwards, the PaDev (Participatory Assessment of Development)
research started to focus on the assessment of development interventions
from the perceptions of recipients in Burkina Faso and Ghana. One of the
important and striking conclusions from this study was: the failure of
reaching the poor and the very poor, meaning that the bulk of
interventions were unable to reach the poor and very poor. Development
organizations thus have to struggle with the question of whether to
adjust their current targeting practices or to redefine their target
groups.
Anika Altaf is based at ASC Leiden and conducting Ph.D research on the
ethics of targeting for poverty alleviation. This is a research of the
targeting practices of partner organizations of Development Agencies.
The targeting practices are studied in relation to their identities,
i.e. Catholic, Protestant, Secular and Islamic, and their sub
identities. Prof. Ton Dietz will be supervising this research.
Prior to her Ph.D research, she completed her Master’s degree in
International Development Studies at the International School for
Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Amsterdam. She has
successfully conducted fieldwork and research in Kenya, South-Africa,
Ghana, Burkina Faso and Pakistan. She is also a member of the PaDev
research team.
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