Direction....Finally?

So I think I might finally have been able to pin down what exactly I'm supposed to be working on during my placement. What it looks like right now is that I will be coming up with a monitoring and evaluation procedure from which a baseline of all the communities involved in the association can be determined. The end goal of this being providing a frame work by which a measure the impact, both positive and negative, that the association has had on each community can be taken down the road. Given the number of communities involved, scheduling times to visit, problems with transport, methodology creation, as well as the compiling of data and report writing that's going to have take place, I figure this could easily end up taking at least a month and a half. Which if you factor in the fact that I'm working for a cash/motivation strapped NGO, will likely end up taking the entirety of my placement. Kinda comforting though, cause when you combine the above with skill building the executive, I should at least be fairly busy, and that I think is key to my own mental health. Along the same vien, the ongoing saga of actually getting the association legally registered with the government may finally be coming to an end. Brief recap, from talking to the executive it was communicated to me that all the nessecary paperwork was already in the capital. Little did I know that this wasn't totally true, turns out the forms need to be filled out in triplicit and the executive had decided to only fill out/send one. Don't ask me why, cause I don't know and can't get a straight answer. Anyway, from talking to Adisa the one completed form is now rolling it's way back to Tamale, no one made a photocopy of it or apparently remembers the required info...again don't ask why, and hopefully I should be able to get it all sorted out at the executive meeting on saturday. Hope all is well in the global north, heard you guys still having a bit of a cold snap? Had one hear the last couple days, pretty hilarious seeing people wearing toques and I'm still sweating bullets! Got some sweet fabric at the market on the weekend, so I'll be hitting up the tailor some time this week to get some shirts made. Never really had tailored clothes made so it should be interesting. Mustapha is also going to take me to his friend who is a also a tailor to get some clothes similar to the communities, with is kinda different then the general ghanian, made. thinking of maybe a muslim smock/man-dress thing, look comfortable in the heat.... Side note on buying fabric, turns out most of the "ghanian" design fabric is actually made in england, holland, or other african countries. Managed to find some authentic stuff, but it required some looking. Anyway I just found it an odd outsourcing of culture, maybe a chance for impact? Just kidding, already got enough on my plate. Oh and for those who I know care, and you know who you are, Mustapha has an old classmate who lives in a village where they weave tradition kenti cloth, so I should be making some purchases there soon....don't worry I'll take pictures!
Till next time, stick on the ice and elbows up....and please don't let the pens win..