ABSTRACT Although School Feeding Programmes (SFP) is seen as an essential aspect of child growth and holistic development, evidence suggests that SFP’s alone cannot determine educational outcomes of school children. Studies have identified a strong relationship between home environment factors and school children’s learning outcomes. In Ghana, the School Feeding Programme targets children from poor and vulnerable households who attend Government public schools. Evidence on school feeding ...
ABSTRACT Although prison inmates are often seen as burdens on society, as their criminal activity has made them unproductive citizens, rehabilitation programmes within prisons give inmates the ability to become productive citizens upon their release. Such programmes, which focus on providing inmates with skills and knowledge, have the potential to greatly affect their integration back into society post-release, thus decreasing the likelihood that they will commit similar crimes in the future....
ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to determine the difference in flora diversity in two farming systems and how the diversity contributes to sustainable livelihoods of cocoa farmers in an era of changing climate in Atwima Mponua District of Ghana. Sixteen organic and sixteen conventional cocoa farms were selected in Gyereso and Pasoro in the district. In each farm, flora were sampled to include three life forms viz., trees, shrubs and herbs. Households were also interviewed with a structured ...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the contribution of international NGOs towards sustainable health promotion in the Northern Region. It has also investigated the level of collaboration and networking among the international NGOs working in the health sector in the Northern Region as well as the key intervention areas of the International NGOs health programmes and the problems affecting their health programmes implementation among others. The Northern Region is plagued with a myriad of health haza...
ABSTRACT Globally, the twenty-first century has been considered as an age of urbanization and globalization. These contribute to cities as key nodes, with potential to lead in socio-economic development: increasing connectivity in goods, information, people and, consequently, creating jobs within economies of scale and of scope. Most city managers have often assumed that development is synonymous with economic growth, ease of access to social services, and a foregone conclusion that with pros...
ABSTRACT Extreme human activities couple with climate change have the potential to reduce the resilience of communities whose livelihoods depend on the forest ecosystem services. As a way of building resilience of society using the same resource also has the capacity to derive co-benefits for the forest ecosystem upon which livelihoods activities operate. To this end, the study sought to adopt the Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) to identify Ecosystem services of the Worobong South Forest Res...
ABSTRACT Small-holder farmers in the urban and peri-urban areas have become very vulnerable to land use change patterns due to rapid increase in population and urbanization. Farmlands are gradually being converted to residential facilities, posing significant threat to the livelihood of farmers who depend on such lands. Land use change at Abokobi dates back to the 2004, but the phenomena became more pronounced in 2008 when the Ga East District attained municipal status. With support from the ...
ABSTRACT Production and consumption activities generate waste which subsequently must be managed. Informal resource recovery is seen to have emerged to fill the gap caused by the absence of enough formal waste processing facilities, as well as a livelihood strategy especially among the poor. Materials recovered from waste are either re-used or recycled, and include plastics, metals, paper, bottles and electronic waste. Reported as employing millions across the globe, those who engage in resou...
ABSTRACT While some studies support the growing body of evidence that countries endowed with natural resources are cursed, others are of the view that they have been blessed. One major explanation common to such studies is how institutions determine if resources would be a curse or a blessing. Ghana discovered oil in June, 2007and in November, 2010 produced her first oil in commercial quantities. Through a comprehensive legal framework, Ghana assigned roles to institutions to avoid the oil cu...
iii ABSTRACT Microcredit has been identified to be an effective tool for empowering women. Evidence from the literature suggests that access to microcredit has the power to improve their productive capacity. The La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly introduced the “Women in Development” program to provide credit to women groups to expand on their income generating activities. The main objective of this study was to assess the effect of microcredit on women empowerment. The study also sought ...
ABSTRACT Governments of Ghana have endeavored over the years to promote the use of cleaner energy and stoves for domestic use, but about 70% of Ghanaian households still rely on biomass fuel for their main household energy sources. This, therefore, makes the adoption and use of improved cook stoves (ICSs) important to curtail the adverse health, economic and environmental effects associated with using biomass fuel and traditional cook stoves. The aim of the study was to assess the status of a...
ABSTRACT The climate change challenge in this century threatens life itself on the planet; natural systems and human societies alike. The ability for human systems to adjust to and deal with threats posed by climate change is in no doubt better than natural systems. The very existence and well-being of humanity especially the rural poor is solely dependent on a proper functioning natural systems and the services they provide and more importantly the livelihoods they derive from it. This study...
ABSTRACT Livelihoods are the ways in which people satisfy their needs, or gain a living. In Ghana, cocoa production supports the livelihoods of more than 800,000 smallholder households and many others who depend on it for a significant share of their income. The primary objective of the study was to assess the sustainable livelihoods of rural cocoa farmers in the Atwima Mponua district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Mixed method approach was used and one hundred and fifty (150) cocoa farmers...
ABSTRACT The global recognition of community participation as essential to development is an issue on which there is greater consensus in literature. More importantly, involving people in planning through consultative problem identification and designing of initiatives cannot be overemphasised. Wrongly identifying and designing such initiatives without proper community consultations, renders plans and initiatives unresponsive to community needs. The acceptance of decentralization in general a...
ABSTRACT The study examined the factors that prevented women from actively participating in local level governance and politics in the Ashanti Mampong Municipality in the Ashanti Region. To be able to get the views of across section of women on the issue, 230 respondents comprising university lecturers, tutors from Colleges of Education, political party activists, nurses and teachers took part in the study. A self-administered questionnaire, which also served as an interview guide in some i...