ABSTRACT As a global problem, the united nations, NGOs, civil society organization and other stake holders have taken steps to prevent, minimize and find solutions to conflicts worldwide
ABSTRACT Food insecurity remains a global health challenge especially for poor areas in developing countries. One of the ways through which access to food can be boosted for the rural dwellers is through access to land, as agriculture is the leading source of income for agricultural-based economies. Little attention, however, has been given to how land ownership arrangements of rural dwellers can affect their food security in Ghana. The study therefore examined the relationship between land ...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page - - - - - - - - i Approval Page - - - - - - - - ii Dedication - - - - - - - - - iii Acknowledgement - - - - - - - iv Table of Contents - - - - - - - - vi CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study - - - - - - 1 1.2 Statement of Research Problems - - - - 1 1.3 Scope and Limitation - - - - - - 2 1.4 Aims and Objectives - - - - - - 2 1.5 Literature Review - - - - - - - 3 1.6 Research Methodology - - - - - - 5 1.7 Chapter One end Notes - - - - - - 6 CHAPT...
ABSTRACT The study employs secondary data by comprehensively reviewing, analysing and discussing relevant literature on the gendered dimension of migration and remittance flow with respect to Ghanaian female migrants. The study examines the extent to which modification of gender roles of migrants abroad contribute to the flow of remittances with respect to Ghanaian female migrants. Overall, the study identified that there exist a relationship between, women, migration and remittances. The st...
ABSTRACT This study explores the implementation of national identification system through a comparative study of national identification in India and Ghana. The study is situated in the theory of organizing vision by Swanson and Ramiller. Data for the study was obtained from primary sources, mainly through interviews and secondary sources of information included internets, journal articles, books, reports etc. The study revealed that lack of central database poses a major challenge to the im...
ABSTRACT Ghana has ratified international conventions and has passed national legislations, which compel government to observe and find practical expression for the civil and political rights as well as the economic, social and cultural rights of its citizens. In accordance with these legal requirements, Ghana has drafted and is implementing a National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) aimed at protecting its vulnerable population. A major component of this strategy is the Livelihood Empower...
ABSTRACT This study sets to find out the kinds of services the public university libraries provide for the visually impaired students in the universities in Ghana. The libraries of three public universities known to practice inclusive education for the visually impaired were purposively selected for the study. The libraries are the Sam Jonah Library, University of Cape Coast, the Osagyefo Library at University of Education, Winneba and the Balme Library at University of Ghana Legon. Question...
Background: The study of parent-child living arrangements and children’s required level of education attained was borne out of observations made and concerns shown by the researcher towards people who have experienced the phenomenon of single parenting. Most of the arguments are that children suffer when they grow in any other type of parent-child living arrangements other than both parents. As more single-parent families appear in societies, interest grows as to the effect of these ho...
Corporate communication tools and processes have, over the years, evolved from the use of traditional methods to the use of internet-facilitated new media. Public relations practitioners are leveraging these new media, such as websites, to engage with their increasingly well informed and globally-dispersed publics. This is on account, principally, of the opportunities that new, digital and internet-enabled, technologies, are offering bi-directional and interactive communication. Using Ke...
This study assessed community relations (CR) by studying AngloGold Ashanti. The study, through a qualitative research approach, conducted interviews to find out the reasons behind community relations and how it was communicated to the host communities. The study also considered how communities were involved in the implementation of a community relations policy. The challenges and benefits of CR to mining companies and the host communities were also sought. Four community leaders and a co...
The promotion of regional integration in Africa has been on the agenda of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) since its inception in 1958. In spite of the activities and programmes adopted by the ECA to further this agenda on the continent, achieving greater integration has proved elusive and most of the regional integration arrangements on the continent have not achieved the expected results. Some of the programmes of the ECA have achieved limited success whilst others have failed ...
Gender is an issue of social and interpersonal relationships between males and females, a problem of differences in roles and values, and inequalities in opportunities, access to resources and power. These relationships, differences and inequalities are located in social and institutional structures and practices, but they are also firmly rooted in language. Language is a locus for the manifestation of gender because language and its usage convey not only factually objective meanings bu...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess project management inefficiencies on organisational performance. There is a higher demand for improved performance of organisations being it profit making or not for profit making organisations. This performance depends largely on effective and efficient implementation of projects in these organisations and this places emphasis on effective project management in business organisations. The study and practice of project management has been ident...
ABSTRACT The pre- colonial development gap between the North and the South still persists even though there havebeen several attempts by governmental and non-governmental interventions to bridge the gap. This has created a net migration of Northern youth to the South for menial jobs. The movement of people to urban centres poses some challenges to the development of rural areas in that in most rural areas, the impact of rural-urban migration is the rapid deterioration of the rural economy whi...
ABSTRACT The study examined how psychological capital and achievement motivation predict work engagement among micro and small-scale entrepreneurs in Accra. One hundred and seventy-one (171) micro and small-scale entrepreneurs operating small IT firms, beauty parlour, food businesses, wood businesses, construction and plumbing, retail shops, event planning and decorations, management consulting firms, fashion businesses, poultry farming, cold stores, auto mechanic businesses, shoemaking busin...