Decentralized Planning has been described as Ghana's third policy objective to its decentralization programme (Kumbour, 2010). This is referred mostly in literature as the "bottom up" Development Planning which is described as a departure from previous Planning methods also described as the "top down" approach. The main objective of the bottom up strategy to Development Planning is to involve communities in the plan preparation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. The essence of this p...
Chieftaincy is perhaps the only indigenous institution which has been able to stand the test of time in the advent of alien cultures. This research attempts to identify chiefs as the main agent of development among the Dagaaba in the Upper West and also to determine the challenges and prospects of the chieftaincy institution. Both primary and secondary data were collected and collated. Several data were gathered through face-to-face interviews and focus group discussions. The entire research ...
The effects of poor sanitation and hygiene seep into almost every sphere of life. Interventions to tackle this menace in the past have yielded very modest results as people in rural areas continue to engage in improper practices. Attempts to resolve this challenge will remain a mirage if people do not change their behavior. With CARE Ghana and APDO as implementing agents of behavior change interventions, some communities in the Nandom district which equally faces sanitation and hygiene challe...
Rapid urbanization coupled with the uncontrolled land use change is posing serious livelihood challenges to households in the developing world and the peri urban communities of the Wa Municipality in particular. This study explored the nature of the land tenure system in the peri urban areas of the Wa Municipality. It identified and discussed the factors responsible for the land use change, the kinds of livelihood strategies adopted in the face of the diminishing agricultural lands and the im...
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been designed to find a lasting, efficient, and acceptable solution to the nagging problem of health care financing. The introduction of the NHIS in 2003 sought to provide a clear way out and make quality health care not only affordable but also accessible. However six years down the lane after the introduction of the NHIS, health indicators still remains appalling in the Lawra District. The Study sought to find out whether the National Health I...
Poverty is one of the most captivating challenges facing most developing countries and Ghana is no exception. There seems to be a wide gap between the haves and the have not. To curb poverty, micro-finance has emerged as an antidote to the problem of poverty. Micro-finance encompasses micro-credit, micro-insurance and micro-savings. The SIF has therefore emerged as an institution that champions poverty reduction in its operation area and has adopted microfinance as one of the vehicles of pove...
In 2005, the Government of Ghana started its own School Feeding Programme (SFP) along the lines of the Home Grown School Feeding concept. The Programme was different from other SFPs that had traditionally used imported processed foodstuffs. This study sought to examine how the programme is boosting local food production in the Nadowli /Kaleo district or the Upper West Region. Probability and non-probability sampling methods were employed to select one hundred and fifty (150) respondents from ...
Academic libraries are critical contributors to knowledge generation which serve a wide spectrum of knowledge seekers. The shift from print to digital information has a high impact on all components of the academic library system. Academic libraries in Ghana seem to be facing overwhelming challenges in the adoption of JCT academic in academic libraries. A total of eight (8) tertiary institutions were selected for the study, with ninety-six (96) respondents made up of librarians, academic staf...
This thesis examines internal revenue mobilisation by the Wa Municipal Assembly. The major research objective of the study was to assess the internally generated funds mobilisation by the Wa Municipality Assembly. A case study design was deployed in the study. Sixty-two respondents were selected using purposive sampling. The study collected primary data using interview and focus group discussions, while secondary data was obtained from reports of the Assembly. The analysis of data involved th...
Open Defecation continue to be a major developmental issue among developing countries. Inspite of the numerous interventions of development partners and sector agencies, access to improved toilet facilities still remain a major challenge. This study set out to ascertain the reasons for the poor response by households to the need to adopt latrines in the Wa East District. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods. The study also established the correlation between economic s...
ABSTRACT The study examined effects of community participation on success of development projects in Bosaso district, Puntland Somalia. This was aimed at ascertaining the level of community participation in development projects in the region, and to determine the extent of success for the development projects. The purpose was also to find out the challenges of community participation in development projects in Bosaso District, Puntland Somalia. The study was conducted in Bosaso district and...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was determine the leadership styles and organizational transformation in selected remittance companies in mogadishu, Somalia. The Leaders have clear visions and they communicate these visions to their employees, means working with and through people by providing them with a vision of the future which is meaningful to them and motivating. Studies on leadership styles have proposed that leadership is both strategic and pragmatic and encourages all members of ...
ABSTRACT The topic of the study was community participation and forest resource management at Gishwati forest Rwanda. The problem was mismanagement of forest resources at Gishwati forest Rwanda. The objectives of the study were: to establish the importance of people involvement and forest resource management in Gishwati forest in Rwanda; to show how community empowerment can safeguard forest resource management in Gishwati forest in Rwanda and to establish the effects of capacity building o...
ABSTRACTS The study Assessed the tourism on Poverty Alleviation, its case study was Taken in Urban West Region of Zanzibar with three specific objectives, analyzes the contribution of tourism towards employment, to evaluate the involvement of tourism in foreign exchange earning in Zanzibar, and to find the linkage between tourism and other sectors of economy in Zanzibar. A case study method was used as research design. Deductive approach was opted and to sample the population of the study a...
ABSTRACT MIS is continuously being introduced in organizations. Every new management information system is a large investment and it is hence crucial to smoothly get the users to accept the system and the new ways or working. Therefore, it is vitally important that the management information system in projects succeed. But it is commonly known that information systems in projects are very seldom completely successful and every project has to tackle various challenges. The aim of this thesis i...