ABSTRACT Unemployment has been a challenge to many economies especially to those in the developing world. The main purpose of the study was to examine the causes and effects of unemployment among the youth in Ga West Municipality of Greater Accra Region. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches were employed. The quantitative data on the youth were collected from 300 respondents in 10 communities while qualitative data on the youth were also collected through focus group discussions in th...
ABSTRACT Disability is everyone's portion and therefore can befall anyone. Whiles some are born with it, others acquire it through ailment, accident or medications used in treating some sicknesses. All though most jobs can be done by people who have disabilities, their participation and integration in the labour market, particularly the formal market has not been very encouraging. Though the passage of the Disability Act by Government in 2006 was meant to comprehensively deal with disabled pe...
ABSTRACT There is a proliferation of alternative care institutions in Lagos state, Nigeria due to the rise in the number of orphans and other vulnerable children and young people, estimated at 17.5 million. Many of these children who otherwise be absorbed by the extended family are rather growing up in alternative care institutions due to the growing levels of poverty. Children in these institutions, who are not reunified with their families or adopted, have to make a transition to independen...
ABSTRACT This study explored the perspectives of farmers in the Shai Osu-Doku district about social security pensions in the Informal Sector. On the whole Small Holder Farmers are known to be low irregular income earners who despite their entire years of contributing to GDP, employment and the food basket in Ghana lope into abject poverty at old age. Social security pensions become a necessary tool for securing the minimal meaningful livelihood of farmers at old age. The study purposed to asc...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken to investigate the implementation challenges of welfare provisions for prisoners in Nsawam Medium Security Prisons. It gathered views on the extent to which welfare standards for prisoners have been implemented and achieved in relation to health, feeding and accommodation for inmates of Nsawam Medium Security Prisons, and the challenges that faced Ghana Prisons Service in implementing welfare standards for inmates. In all 40 prisoners, 20 prison officers, an...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to assess the determinants of academic performance of pupils in the Wa West District. Both quantitative and qualitative research designs were used. The study participants comprised 160 pupils, eight headteachers and eight Parent Teacher Association chairmen. Questionnaires and in-depth interviews were used to collect data. The results show that a number of statistically significant relationships existed between school factors, teacher factors, pupil char...
ABSTRACT The question of how best developing countries must organize and allocate resources for effective decentralization and local governance has been one that scholars have been grappling with for decades. Several models have been proposed by scholars as a way of providing the most effective and judicious allocation of resources for local government. The focus of this study was to examine the issues of access and use of the Members of Parliament (MPs) share of the District Assemblies Commo...
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 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 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 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 Decentralization has been viewed widely by many in Liberia as the panacea to the challenges of development in Liberia. With close to five years of the decentralization of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the study sought to examine the services delivery of the Departments of Health and Social Welfare; comparing the progress chalked by both Departments and the challenges that are experienced in the process of decentralization in the Departments. Employing a qualitative res...
ABSTRACT In today’s changing economic, political, demographic, and environmental context, the living arrangements of the rapidly growing older population warrant disproportionate policy attention. Lack of support by the state coupled with economic hardship and decreasing kin or family availability implies that older persons are more and more expected to find their own means of support develop their own strategies and depend on their own resources. This study uses a descriptive approach in i...
ABSTRACT The study’s main objective was to determine the challenges of northern migrant women in la Nkwantanang-Madina and how this affects the wellbeing of their children. It also looks at the strategies these women use to cope with their challenges as migrant workers in a new destination. Using a mixed method approach, qualitative and quantitative data were obtained from the women in their new environment in La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipality of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The stu...
ABSTRACT Natural resource governance simply refers to the managing the use of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals, with a particular focus on managing or governing how the identified natural resource affects the quality of life for both present and future generations of a people (Starik, 1995). In the process of managing these resources, often than not certain aspects of community interests in the natural resource are affected. In Ghana, the construction of the Ako...