ABSTRACT Decades of rapidly growing urban population, the growth of a business and middle class with money to invest, and an expanding private sector with large investment capital and the ability and willingness to pay high prices for property have resulted in rapid commoditisation of land in the Ga State. Concomitant with these are highly insecure land ownership, land litigation and conflict, poor land use planning and enforcement of land laws. Investigating the processes by which communal a...
ABSTRACT Establishing a governance system that would afford a people the greatest opportunity to meet their hopes and aspirations and allay their fears of the dangers of governance or the absence of a system of governance has always been the dream of nations the world over and throughout all stages of human civilization. Consequently, nations have adopted various forms of systems of governance at different stages of their nationhood both at the national and local levels in the fulfillmen...
ABSTRACT Teenage pregnancy has always been a major setback to the overall development of the girl child in every single community of the Ghanaian society. This study looked at how teenage pregnancy is hindering the educational progression of the girl child in selected communities of the Tamale metropolis of Ghana. The study employed mixed methods – qualitative and quantitative techniques in addressing the research questions. The major data collection instruments that were utilized include...
ABSTRACT Rural livelihoods have been increasingly moving away from agrarian to non-agrarian. For mineral rich countries, attention has been on mineral extraction which has offered numerous entrepreneurial opportunities. The small-scale mining sector, compared to the large-scale sector, is particularly important as it offers several more opportunities for employment of the youth. The youth, who are affected by contracting public sector, turn to small-scale mining which is labour intensive. The...
ABSTRACT Water is vital to human existent and human well-being. The availability of adequate standard, clean, safe and secured water source has been and would always be a major concern. Human access to adequate safe and secured fresh water is limited, yet crucial for the survival of livelihood and healthy living. Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) through the roof catchment is an important domestic water source. The RWH system consists of the capture, transporting pipes, storage and utilization of st...
ABSTRACT The critical role of agriculture to the Ghanaian economy cannot be over emphasized. It has thus been the objective of governments to improve and develop the productive capacity of agriculture. Agricultural extension has been responsible for supporting farmers to raise their production capacity. Over the last two decades the effectiveness of agricultural extension to achieve its goal has been called to question. The significance of local innovation potential for sustainable developme...
ABSTRACT Childhood is believed to be a period of innocence in an individual’s life where he/she is trained, supported, assisted and given guidance primarily by parents and guardians to ensure that they grow into responsible adults. Street children are children for whom the street and other unoccupied dwelling places have become their abode and do not have the care and supervision of responsible adults. This study looked at the livelihood strategies of street children in Accra, specifically ...
ABSTRACT The study examined the effect of health insurance on the healthcare utilization of rural farm households in the Akuapem South District of Ghana. A household survey, conducted in 2013, gathered information on 384 farm households using direct interviews. Multinomial logistic regression was used to address factors determining health insurance enrollment. Utilization of healthcare services was operationalized as the choice of healthcare which indicated the type of facility respondents vi...
ABSTRACT Local community participation and sustainability of peri-urban community-based water management encompasses known and unknown challenges. There is a common assumption that sustainable peri-urban water services will be achieved through local community participation. The principle of community-managed water supply system started, to gain its importance in early 1990s with the World Bank and development partners’ sponsored water supply projects. However, local community participation ...
ABSTRACT Health financing has become a topical issue among development practitioners in most developing countries. This has necessitated some countries introducing social health insurance schemes as a way of financing health. Health insurance schemes are recognized as a tool to finance health care provision in developing countries including Ghana. The health insurance scheme was introduced in Ghana with the purpose of reducing catastrophic health expenditures, improving access and also ensuri...
ABSTRACT Ghana has been lauded for being able to achieve the MDG target of “halving the proportion of those living in extreme poverty before the target date of 2015” (Ghana Statistical Service, 2013). But livelihood activities in the rural areas, which are dominated by farming, have become exposed to higher risks and vulnerabilities with new threats to access to resources. For example, with increasing urbanisation landowners are withdrawing land from farming for other uses leaving farmers...
ABSTRACT Mobile phones have been widely reported to be transforming Africa and have even been referred to as creating a ‘revolution’. Numerous studies have revealed how mobile phones are ‘flattening’ the world and facilitating economic development through improved connections between places and people. In Ghana, liberalisation of the mobile telephony sector has contributed to a dramatic rise in the number of young people who are engaged in various informal support businesses in the se...
ABSTRACT This research was aimed at evaluating the awareness of tax laws and compliance by Small and Medium size Enterprise in the Ghanaian economy using businesses in Tamale Metropolis as a case study. This study was conducted with the following as its objectives; Ascertain the level of awareness and knowledge of tax laws and regulations by SMEs, Examine factors affecting compliance with tax laws among SMEs and lastly to Evaluate tax agencies effort to ensure compliance. Employing the use o...
ABSTRACT This study is an examination of how would-be-affected communities have participated in the planning process of Bui Dam Project. The study adopted case study approach and focused on the design of Bui Dam Project from the consultant which was adopted by the construction firm. The communities studied are; Gyaamah, Bongase and Bui camp/village for the evaluation of communities that have been directly affected. Data collection techniques such as, focus group discussions, household questi...
ABSTRACT Access to and use of formal financial services, namely savings, credit and insurance products, have far-reaching benefits for households and the economy at large. However, there is limited use of formal financial services and rather, a dependence on informal institutions of saving, borrowing and insurance in developing countries. In order to increase demand for formal financial services by households and micro-enterprises, financial sector reforms were carried out extensively in th...