{"id":610,"date":"2025-10-02T03:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/obeng-francis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:50:16","slug":"obeng-francis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/obeng-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Obeng Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrancis Obeng<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Obeng Francis\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Francis Obeng<\/b> is senior lecturer at the University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, and the Ghanaian coordinator of the participatory development assessment (PDA) research team. Obeng earned his PhD from the University of Amsterdam. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/broker-15\/participatory-planning-african\/20103-2-eng-gb\/participatory-planning-african_column.jpg\" alt=\"Subjective truths\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Subjective truths<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/dietz-ton\/\">Ton Dietz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/obeng-francis\/\">Francis Obeng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/obure-jerim\/\">Jerim Obure<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/zaal-fred\/\">Fred Zaal<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAugust 04, 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tThe starting point for development evaluations should be how the recipients of development assistance experience change, rather than the set perspectives of the evaluators. 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