A Synchronic Study of TfD Projects in Osubonpanyin Community, Ghana

This thesis conducted a synchronic evaluation of the TfD studies carried out by Ansah and Adamah (2015) and Borzah, Mensah, Bediako, and Aryeetey (2019), and provided two (2) separate illuminative reports on them as a single dissertation. The former highlighted the pivotal role of parents in advancing their wards’ education, while the latter addressed proper waste disposal practices in Osubon City. This study did a rigorous analysis and gave a clear picture of the goals, objectives, and activities of these previous projects and brought to light the results produced (the impacts), the expected benefits delivered, and their associated issues. The study concludes that the projects have ably made some significant improvements in the community, but there are/were some challenges associated with the projects that both Osubon City and the DTA must take notice of and then take corrective actions on them. This study, therefore, only provided the ingredients needed for quality assurance and improvement of TfD projects carried out by facilitators under auspices of the Department of Theatre Arts (DTA) at the Osubon City and the TfD programme as a special area of study, unless future facilitators, the DTA, and the Osubon City itself pay heed to the lessons of this evaluation study and then take the needed corrective actions. The stakeholders in these projects, especially Osubon City, must obtain and act responsibly on or make sound use of these evaluation findings and recommendations on the projects, especially the sanitation issue, as a matter of urgency. Because the filth is vehemently regaining its root in the community subtly, and that is a threat to the community and should be relooked at. The study further concluded that education appeared as an individual responsibility because its sustenance at the individual level was/is very high, while sanitation seemed like a collective/community responsibility, which witnessed a very impressive effort at the community level in terms of sustenance of the sanitation project. This is a qualitative study that relied extensively on interviews, observations, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and secondary materials, including previous Project Reports (PRs) submitted to DTA, books, and journal articles, that were used to corroborate the information obtained from the primary data. This study will be a valuable document for the DTA, Osubon City, TfD Lecturers and Practitioners because it will aid in teaching and learning of TfD as a special field of study. M Phil. Thesis Submitted to the University of Education, Winneba in 2021. Keywords: evaluation; Theatre; Theatre for Development; Synchronic study; Education and sanitation