ABSTRACT Ghana continues to contribute troops to UN peacekeeping operations across the globe and presently Ghana is the eighth (8th) largest contributor of military personnel for UN peacekeeping operations in the world. Subsequently, several reasons motivate countries (Ghana) to participate in UN peacekeeping operations. These reasons could be classified under economic benefits, institutional benefits and political stability. This study seeks to explore socio-economic factors that influence G...
ABSTRACT Social Protection provisioning for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Ghana is highly inadequate. Despite the passage of the Persons with Disability Act of 2006 (Act 715) to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [UNCRPD], PWDs in Ghana still face substantial barriers of entry into the workplace and for social and political participation. PWDs lack material supports; including health care, education and training, credit facilities and transp...
ABSTRACT This study is/was an assessment of community-based natural resource management in rural areas and how natural resources enhance community livelihoods in reducing poverty against the backdrop of resource depletion. The study adopted a trans-disciplinary approach to research aimed at gathering the necessary information on natural resource management. Data collection techniques such as review of relevant literature, focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, formal institutional int...
PROJECT SUMMARY This particular project examines the poor academic performance of students at the basic school level. Examinations of all kinds including the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BEC E) are seen to be compulsory and also been used as a basic entry requirement into the Senior High School (SHS) level. However, there is generally been poor performance in the selected schools. This is attributed to teachers’ inability to complete their respective subject syllabuses and less...
ABSTRACT Most part of the safety literature indicates that employees fashion their safety-related behaviours in accordance with the perceived climate. This present study examined three dimensions of safety climate (management commitment to safety, priority of safety on plant and pressure for production). The aim of the study was to examine whether the pressure placed on the power generation companies in Ghana as a result of the erratic power supply (‘Dumsor’) has implications for employe...
ABSTRACT Mobile money (MoMo) has witnessed significant increase in adoption since its inception into the Ghanaian financial market in 2009. Available statistics by the Bank of Ghana show that between 2012 and 2017, the number of registered MoMo customers increased by 534%, and active MoMo customers increased by 3,119%. With this performance, it is expected that MoMo will drive financial inclusion by not only providing users with a service to make money transfers but graduating them to use oth...
ABSTRACT This research assessed the implementation of the Programme Based Budgeting system in Ghana since its introduction in 2014 to 2018 at the central government level. Four main thematic areas were used to determine whether the introduction of Programme Based Budgeting (PBB) has really led to Budgeting for Results. These include strategic allocation of Public resources, efficient utilisation of Public resources, and attainment of government priorities. The research work also focused on ...
ABSTRACT About 85% of Ghana‟s deforestation is human-induced, based on the quest for livelihoods. The Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation plus (REDD+) initiative aimed at mitigating climate change by providing incentives to conserve forest lands, is criticized as largely favouring rich investors and owners of large forests lands instead of the poor whose activities account for 85% of total forest loss. The poor, mostly rural dwellers, therefore have very little motivation t...
ABSTRACT Public procurement in the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) is still bedeviled with numerous challenges despite the passage of the Public Procurement Act which was preceded by a radical and comprehensive assessment of the public procurement system in 1993. This study examined the challenges that militate against efficient and effective implementation of the procurement Act and offered suggestions to address those challenges. This study investigated the capacity...
ABSTRACT The concept of leader integrity has become topical as part of the call for positive organizational research. In an attempt to explore the meaning of this character strength in leaders and how it influences employee outcomes, this study employed the use of robust methodology to examine how leader integrity predicts the citizenship behaviour and counterproductive work behaviour of civil servants in Ghana. The concurrent embedded mixed method design was adopted to subjectively provide...
ABSTRACT User fees have been in place since 1985 and have over the years generated a lot of debates and arguments in Ghana. This study aimed to investigate the impact of cost sharing policies, otherwise known as user fees on the utilisation of health care facilities in the Tema District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Other issues such as how households rank other available alternatives to public health facilities, households’ views on the user fees concept, the effectiveness of the e...
ABSTRACT Advocacy in promoting women participation In decision making have become key in communities. The study was conducted qualitatively with the use of an Action Research design. The sample was selected through the purposive and convenient sampling methods. About 15 women were interviewed to ascertain their opinions on the promotion of women participation in decision making at the community level. The main objective of the study was to advocate for an improvement in women participation i...
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, there has been a somewhat convergence in thinking regarding the contributions of cash transfers to social protection and vulnerability reduction. As a result, governments of most developing countries in Asia and Africa have begun embracing the idea of cash transfer through a rollout of various schemes all in a bid to address issues of poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion. This study analyses the contributions so far made by the Livelihood Empowerment Aga...
Abstract This paper contributes to the debate on the educational reforms and the role of the polytechnics in economic development of Ghana. The paper was an outcome of a review of secondary data supported by interviews with, polytechnic Rectors, polytechnic administrators and government officials across seven polytechnics in Ghana. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the key informants and qualitative analysis procedure was used. The study examined the educational development fro...
ABSTRACT The study evaluated the performance appraisal system and its effect on employee performance at the Northern Regional Co-ordinating Council, Tamale. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Primary and secondary sources of data were used for the research. Close-ended questionnaires were used in the collection of the primary data with a sample size of 86. Quantitative approached was adopted to analyze the data. This revealed that, the Northern Regional Co-ordinating Counc...