ABSTRACT The study examined the perceptions of the various stakeholders in the forestry sector on how logging has affected the environmental and socioeconomic life of the communities living around the logging areas in the Adansi East District. The following methods were used: field assessment, collection of field reports from the FSD District Office, aerial photographs of the Forest Reserves and administration of structured questionnaires. Forest Services Division staff in the District and c...
ABSTRACT The study assessed the effects of foreign direct investment on government revenue in Ghana. Foreign direct investment, Per Capita GDP, Education and Urbanisation were used as independent variables whereas tax revenue was taken as dependent variable. Augmented Dickey-Fuller, Phillips-Perron, Ng-Perron and Zivot-Andrews unit root tests were applied to find the level of stationarity in the time series. Autoregressive Distributed Lag and its Error Correction Model were applied to find lo...
ABSTRACT Ghana’s decentralization policy has the agenda of socio-economic transformation which stimulate democracy, political equity and people's active participation at the local level. Local level development planning plays an important part in the decentralisation process. This study set out to examine the prospects and challenges of citizen participation in development planning in the Ga West Municipality. The study was based on both primary and secondary sources of data. Primary data w...
ABSTRACT Ghana’s local government system is premised on citizen’s participation at the local level. Since the enactment of the Local Government Law in 1993, governance structures and systems have been put in place to grant greater autonomy and administrative capacity to local governments, without a commensurate enhancement in the capacity and quality of participation of citizens at the local level. Apart from examining the nature and organisation of civil society organisations, the study ...
ABSTRACT The study set out to examine the motivation and attitude towards work among kitchen staff in senior high schools (SHSs) within the Kwawu East District. Specifically, it involved an examination of the motivational needs of the staff, the strategies used to motivate kitchen staff and the factors influencing job attitudes of staff. A cross-sectional design was adopted to survey 42 kitchen staff and seven school Principals. Interview schedules were used to collect data from the kitchen...
ABSTRACT Solid waste management presents challenges to both developed and developing countries the world over. This is partly due to increasing population, expansions in towns or cities, poor town planning and inadequate funding of waste management practices. This study looks at the solid waste management practices in the Wa municipality and its associate problems. It describes the management practices in the study area; it also assesses the management practices in the Wa municipality level...
ABSTRACT Issues about the environment are no longer just the air we breathe, or the world we live in, it has become a requirement for businesses to address in an ever more critical global economy. This study assessed the corporate environmental management tools used by manufacturing firms in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis to manage the environmental problems associated with their production. Structured Questionnaire was used to obtain data for this study. The lottery method of sampling was ...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to find out the factors that affected the recruitment and retention of public senior high school (SHS) teachers in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis. The designs used were the descriptive and noninterventional research designs. Four public senior high schools were involved in the study. The simple random sampling was used to select 112 teachers from the population of teachers in the four schools for the study. The data collection instrument used was the questio...
ABSTRACT This is an exploratory and descriptive study that examined staff motivation as a factor in water and sanitation services delivery in Community Water and Sanitation Agency in Two Districts of the Eastern Region. The objectives of the study were to examine the satisfaction of staff of CWSA in terms of motivation, the effectiveness of the motivational processes on staff members and the stakeholder’s role and satisfaction in the service delivery process. Questionnaires and interviews...
ABSTRACT The study examine the staff training and development programmes of the IRS by; identifying the training and development needs of staff, examining the overall training and development processes, assessing the benefits of training and development as well as examining the challenge facing the effective implementation of staff training and development policies in the IRS. Descriptive and cross-sectional survey designs were adopted for the research and a sample of 240 drawn using simple...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to assess violation of women’s rights in the Ketu-South District. Being an essentially qualitative study, it adopted a descriptive and exploratory approach to expose the incidence of human rights abuse or violation in the study area. A purposive sampling technique was used. The main instrument used for data collection was the interview guide. The findings from the field show that there are varying views about the origin of the Trokosi system amon...
ABSTRACT Currently, the Kabakaba West Reserve is managed by the Municipal Forestry Department with little or no involvement of the surrounding communities. The non-participation of the adjoining communities in the management of the reserve has led to encroachment on the reserve by these communities leading to the degradation of the forest. The main purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which the communities surrounding the reserve have been involved in the management of the reser...
ABSTRACT This dissertation focuses on the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) practices in the University of Cape Coast. The aim is to examine the OHS practices and to determine, the extent to which, the University had adhered to requirements of legislation governing occupational health and safety, assess the level of employee awareness of hazardous conditions associated with their work and make recommendations based on the findings to improve occupational health and safety practices. The s...
ABSTRACT In most recent times the issue of the Ghana National Insurance scheme has preoccupied many a mind. Whereas some see in it a saviour others exercise their scepticism seeing it as another very big white elephant. The efforts made in this study have sought to digest some concepts of the Health Insurance as well as trace the origin of the Insurance with a commitment to ensuring that the emerging scheme is devoid of bottlenecks as it appears to be harbouring now. Two main tools were emp...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine the general understanding of the concept of corruption, determine perception of prevalence of corruption in public institution, analyze the causes of corruption in public institutions, examine measures undertaken to curb corruption and provide recommendations on corruption to interested persons. The study drew a cross section of the general population within the Tema metropolis. Members of the public were interviewed within the study area all with the aim ...