ABSTRACT Male involvement in abortion and post-abortion family planning use is pivotal in reducing unintended pregnancies while optimising contraceptive use. While literature is extant with the positive outcomes of men’s role in abortion and contraceptive use, there is insufficient interrogation of the relationship between male partners’ involvement in abortion and post-abortion family planning uptake. This study sought to examine the relationship between male partners’ involvement in a...
ABSTRACT This study is couched within the framework of Basic Linguistic Theory. It takes a descriptive approach to the study of the typology of questions and their responses in the Efutu dialect of the Awutu-Efutu language (Guan, Kwa). It is further aimed at establishing the relevance of focus in questions and to find out how question intonation and questions particles interact. The typology of questions was based on the kind of responses the questions solicit. Three types of questions were i...
ABSTRACT The rights and protection of children have become the central focus of sustainable human development. However, children are usually left out in all decisions that are meant to promote their well-being. One such discussion is the issues of child labour. The main aim of the study was to examine how children could participate in the various processes of eliminating child labour in cocoa growing areas. A mixed method approach was used. This included a survey, focus group discussions and ...
ABSTRACT Tourism over the years has played a major role in many developing economies including Ghana. It competes with gold, cocoa and remittances as a key source of revenue for the state. For a successful and thriving tourism industry in any country, it there is the need to uphold tourists’ the safety and security as well as convince potential tourists of their safety and security at a destination. Thus, the state and other private tourist institutions have the responsibility to safeguard ...
ABSTRACT The study aimed to identify the effects of teaching and learning conditions on educational outcomes in the La Nkwantanang Municipality. The data sets of the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS 6) and the Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) together with the qualitative data obtained through field interviews were employed to address the research questions. An unstructured interview guide was mainly used for the collection of the qualitative data from 30 ...
ABSTRACT Despite efforts to counter human trafficking, it is still an issue of global concern. However, most of the works on human trafficking have focused on challenges, health implication on victims, its threats to national security and transnational human trafficking activities with little attention on the implementation plans of the policies, legal and institutional frameworks that govern the Act. This research examined how policies, specifically the National Plan of Action for the Elim...
ABSTRACT This study adopted a case study approach to investigate the foster care component of the Care Reform Initiative (CRI) of the Department of Social Welfare under the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MGCSP, Ghana) from the perspectives of both programme implementers and foster parents. Serious attention was given to efforts made to ensure the availability of a pool of family-based foster parents for the programme in Accra and experiences associated with it. The topi...
ABSTRACT The study of age at first sexual intercourse and parity examined the relationship between age at first sexual intercourse and parity among women in three selected urban poor communities in Accra, Ghana. The study investigated the average age at first sexual intercourse among women aged 15-49 years and their implications on fertility. The unit of analysis was individual women aged 15-49 years and the data set that was used for the analysis was the EDULINK 2011 wave two. Statistical me...
ABSTRACT From 1951 when Dr Kwame Nkrumah embarked on expansion of the education system in the then Gold Coast to the present, there have been several initiatives aimed at developing the education system. The most prominent are; the Accelerated Development Plans for Education (1951 and 1961), the New Structure and Content of Education Plan (1974), the New Educational Reform Programme (NERP) (1987), and the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (1996). These initiatives show that education ...
ABSTRACT In light of the contemporary presence and pervasiveness of information and communications technologies (ICTs) into practically all facets of social structure and habits of people, this study sought to contribute a technological perspective to the job-search literature from the Ghanaian context. The study was grounded in online job seeking literature and framed within the technology acceptance model (TAM). The study involved a survey of 150 graduate students from the three graduate h...
ABSTRACT This thesis was aimed at investigating the Archaeology of German colonial encounters with local agency at the Galenkuito site of Ziavi, in the Ho municipality of the Volta Region of Ghana. It garnered oral and documentary accounts to contribute to the knowledge of the migration and settlement histories of the early Ziavi indigenes prior to colonial times. The study used ethnographic research to document the contemporary life-ways of the people. These included chieftaincy and traditi...
ABSTRACT Crime is seen as unacceptable in society. It may be committed by children or adults. Children have rights and these rights are protected even when they are in conflict with the law. This is the reason for setting up juvenile justice administration. Globally the number of young people coming in conflict with the law is growing at a rapid rate. There is a question as to how these young people are dealt with by the justice delivery system. This study assesses the current policy response...
ABSTRACT The project aimed at proposing policy for corporate identity and image management of the University of Professional Studies.The scope of the project covered policy on corporate visual identity, communication, corporate behaviour and culture. An image audit was conducted to ascertain the perception of the internal and external audiences concerning the image of the University. Top management of UPSA was interviewed for their view on the identity of the institution. Experts in the field...
ABSTRACT Job insecurity has become a critical phenomenon for discussion in the heightened harsh economic state of most organisations where certainty to long-term employment cannot be guaranteed. On the basis of this, the purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between job insecurity, psychological wellbeing and safety compliance. The moderating effect of employee empowerment between job insecurity and psychological well-being, as well as the relationship between job insecurity ...
ABSTRACT The Polytechnics in Ghana are currently in transition of upgrading to Technical University status. In view of this, academic research and for that matter compliance to research ethics has become key. The study explored the awareness of academic research ethics among Senior Polytechnic Librarians across the ten regions of Ghana by looking at the librarians’ role in support to academic research, impact of Information and Communication Technology on research ethics, components of ethi...