ABSTRACT The struggle to rule gave room to chieftaincy dispute for which the study examined the impeding factors and the effects of the Chieftaincy Conflict in Funsi Traditional Area in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Dahrendorf’s Conflict and Relative Deprivation theories anchored the study. Case study design was used. A sample of 45 was chosen using purposive and convenience sampling. Semi-structured interview schedules were used to collect the data. The data was analyzed using content a...
ABSTRACT The most worrying issue to customers of the Mobile Telecom networks today is service quality and customer satisfaction. A lot of studies have been done in this area with many targeting service quality issues from the service providers‟ perspective. This has resulted into several measures by these Telecom network companies to improve on the services they render. The National Communications Authority (NCA) has taken several steps in terms of warnings and fines as well as license rev...
ABSTRACT Micro-credit has been acknowledged as a resourceful means of enhancing people economic activities and eliminating poverty among the poor. In Ghana, many organisations including those for disabled persons have adopted micro-credit as a strategy for enhancing empowerment. This study sought to explore, highlight and provide scientific information on the role of micro-credit in the economic empowerment of disabled persons using the Anglican and Community-Based Rehabilitation micro-c...
ABSTRACT In the world and Ghana in particular, poor knowledge and access to reproductive health services (RHS) is a major public health issue. The Ghana Adolescent Reproductive Health (GhARH) project is an intervention to improve adolescents’ knowledge and access to RHS. However, little evidence exists to show clearly how the project has yielded results in the Asunafo South District. The study assessed effects of the project on adolescents’ knowledge and access to RHS and the socio cultu...
ABSTRACT The study looked at Apprenticeship Training and Human Resource Development in the Tamale Metropolis, a case study in the automobile industry. In Ghana apprenticeship training in the informal sector is mostly practical based and the duration of the trade can take from months to years depending on the type of trade. The most common trades are tailoring, blacksmithing, metalwork, carpentry, masonry, and automobile mechanics. Some characteristics in the apprenticeship training in Ghana ...
ABSTRACT The literature suggests that globally adolescents initiate sex before age 15. In Ghana, young females initiate sex relatively earlier than males. Studies indicate that the age at which one experiences first sex in itself is not the problem, but rather the challenges resulting from the numerous health and social implications associated with it. One outcome in the literature for early sexual activity is a high number of sexual partners which is associated with a risk of contracting HIV...
ABSTRACT This study investigated the relevance of the concept of sustainability to facility management. Initiatives and research into sustainability are more often focused on the environment while overlooking the economic and socio-cultural dimension of sustainability. This study therefore focused on the impacts that the concept of sustainability can have if incorporated into facility management in Ghana. For this study, the qualitative research method was selected to be able to provide in-de...
ABSTRACT In the Child Nutrition Act, it is stated that educational progress is an objective of Ghana School Feeding programs. In spite of this fact no serious attempt has ever been made to evaluate whether this objective has been met; the few evaluations that have been conducted lack scientific rigor as well as community participation. As a whole, the studies failed to provide a strong basis from which to make valid inferences regarding the longterm effects of the feeding program on school ac...
ABSTRACT Employees constitute an essential resource for every organization. Just as employers are particular about ensuring the input of employees to achieve their goals, it is equally important that the conditions of work of employees are favourable enough to ensure responsive inputs. The study aimed at comparing the extent to which employee motivation and job satisfaction promote productivity among staff of Sam Jonah and Osagyefo libraries and the various strategies adopted by management of...
ABSTRACT This study explores the use of smartphones for investigative journalism by participants in an Africa Center for International Law and Accountability (ACILA) -Tiger Eye Project of using smartphones to fight corruption. The study seeks to find out how investigative journalists, who participated in the special training project on investigative journalism, are using smartphones in their line of work. Existing literature has established that professionals in various fields have been using...
ABSTRACT This thesis explores the language of a three year old Safaliba-speaking child from a phonological perspective. The findings of this work are largely based on primary data collected during a two month field-work between December 2014 and January 2015. Primary data was collected by means of elicitation: interviews and discussions recorded using an audio sound recorder. Native speaker intuition was relied on for gathering, transcribing, and analysing the data. Even though the study is d...
ABSTRACT A number of Church documents and Church leaders have underscored the need for couples to undergo adequate preparation before they receive the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. The Pontifical Council for the Family in its document, “Marriage Preparation”, stresses the necessity for dioceses to publish a Directory/Document and establish a Commission for Marriage Preparation and the Pastoral Care of the Family. Pope Francis in his encyclical letter, Amoris Laetitia, acknowledges that the...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing among contract staff in banking institutions. The moderating role of organisational climate on the relationship between job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing was also assessed as well as the extent to which job insecurity moderates the relationship between job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing. Lastly, the study examined the moderating role of tenure on the relationship between ...
ABSTRACT In an effort to reduce poverty in Ghana, the Government designed a National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) in 2008, with a cash transfer component known as the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP). Under the LEAP, vulnerable members of households are identified and caregivers are given cash support to supplement their incomes in order to improve care for the vulnerable members of their households. This study was conducted to: i) examine changes in the occupations and asse...
ABSTRACT Stalls in fertility transition have been observed in many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, including Ghana. This stalling fertility, defy the Demographic Transition Theory and have attracted the research attention. Current studies seeking to unravel the causes of the stalling fertility have been inconclusive. Changes in the timing and prevalence of marriage are areas that call for attention because total fertility rate is a function of the age composition of the proportion ever m...