Public .relations practice has therefore, been with man since the Stone Age with modifications being only in the tools and techniques of practice. As a profession, the term public relations was first used by Dorman Eaton, a lawyer in an address to graduating students of Yale University, USA in 1882 while President Thomas Jefferson (USA) is credited as being the first head of government to have used it in his seventh union address to the American Congress in 1807 (Newson et-al, 1981 :23).
It is a long held belief that the greatest area of waste, corruption and misappropriation in the public sector is on procuremen t and contract management. These executive excesses are largely a tribute ted to lack of proper regulation and adequate control. This research is designed to look into the issue. The en tire resea rch work wa s focu sed on the effect of the govern men t due process policy on public procuremen t and con tract management using Small and Medium Enterprises Devel...
Poverty reduction has been a long concern fol' all African co1mtl'ies since independence. The high incidence of po1·crty in Nigcl'ia has been a greatest obstacle to the development of the nation at large. This research work examined the role of the government in Poverty Alleviation Programmes in Nigeria in orde!' to reduce poverty to its minimum barest level. Questionnaire 111as used as instrument for gathering data for the research. The data collected were ana�y:::.ed using simple p...
ABSTRACT The strength of democracy is reflected in the “expressions of mass demands for better social safety nets especially in the sectors of health and education services. However, for mass demands to be translated into policy, there need to be an opportunity that numbers can mobilize, and that mobilization counts politically. The strength and quality of democracy makes it possible for civil society, popular organizations and political parties to emerge and consolidate as organizations th...
ABSTRACT The Rio Conference in 1992 highlighted the need for co-management of natural resources. The conference challenged the centralized management of forest resources by the State and encouraged the involvement of other actors in the management of forest resources. Ghana has also been practicing co-management over a decade now. In Ghana however, although there have been forestry policy reforms intended to encourage co-management, it is uncertain whether or not these policy reforms have met...
ABSTRACT Housing deficit is one of the major problems of urban managers. This has adversely led to the unbearable demand for public infrastructure such as social housing; roads; sewage works; water and sanitation; ports; electrification; health care; telecommunication networks; education and security; entertainment transportation; public health institutions; and employments poverty, pollution, overcrowding, congestion and shortage of affordable housing in the urban centers. This study focused...
Abstract This study set out to examine the role of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Ghana in resolving the transportation challenges in Accra. The study employed qualitative research approach with semistructured interviews as its main instrument of data collection. In all, a sample size of thirty includes policy makers of Bus Rapid Transit affectionately called Ayalolo at the Ministry of Transport, management members of the BRT. The study was conducted only in Accra, where the BRT has been pilo...
TABLE OF CONTENT Title Page Approval Page Dedication Acknowledgement Table of content CHAPTER ONE 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2 Statement of the Problems 1.3 Objective of the Study 1.4 Research Questions 1.5 Hypothesis 1.6 Scope of the Study 1.7 Limitation of the Study 1.8 Significant of the Study 1.9 History of Power Holding Company 1.10 Definition of Terms CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Origin and Evolution of Public Corporation in Nigeria 2.2 Reason for the Establ...
ABSTRACT Social protection programmes are redistributive programmes carried out by various governments to enhance the livelihood of the poor and vulnerable in society. Unfortunately, these programmes are confronted with errors, fraud, and corruption (EFCs), thus rendering them ineffective. This study seeks to contribute to the existing knowledge gap in social accountability mechanisms within social intervention programmes. The study seeks to examine the extent of effectiveness of social accou...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the prospects and challenges of Ghana’s current industrialization policy the 1D1F, using the Akuapem North Municipal Assembly (ANMA) as a case. Using qualitative methodologies, the case study design was used. Primary data for the study was collected by interviews, and they were supplemented with secondary data from scholarly materials, reports, and bulletins. The study found that three 1D1F factories have been set up in the municipality so far. The roles pla...
ABSTRACT Central governments recognize the key role played by local governments in the developmental agenda of these local areas, especially the effort at generating sufficient revenue locally to fund their own projects and programs. Local governance requires that stakeholders are involved in the planning and implementation of policies geared towards reducing and subsequently, eliminating poverty and improving upon the living standards of the residents. In lieu of the aforementioned, t...
ABSTRACT The study examined how students perceive their participation in decisionmaking processes in Wesley College of Education in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. In all, one hundred and ninety-two student leaders, fifty-five teachers and three college administrators were purposively sampled for the study. The main research instrument for the study was the questionnaire. Three sets of questionnaire were designed for respondents. The findings of the study suggest among others, that st...
ABSTRACT Many scholars have found that, in the midst of ineffective and unproductive states in developing countries, there exists exceptionally well-performing public organizations that deliver their mandates effectively and productively. There is renewed research to understand why and how these pockets of effective and productive public organizations managed to emerge and persist in a context where failure of public organizations is the norm. The study explored the factors that have accounte...
ABSTRACT This study was aimed at evaluating the performance of the KNUSTSM, Tarkwa, for the period that it has existed as a tertiary institution todate, a time span of twenty-five years. The School will celebrate, in October 2001, its silver jubilee of nurturing by the mother university, KNUST, Kumasi. Even though it is at the threshold of becoming a University College, no formal evaluation has been made about how the School has so far performed. The study also sought to establish whether...
ABSTRACT As part of its conditions of services the Ghana Education Service (GES) offers career advancement opportunities to its staff to progress from one rank to another. The practice of promoting teachers has been bedeviled with some challenges which have caused a lot of discomfort in the teaching fraternity within the GES. Hence, this study assesses the Staff Promotion of Teachers in the Accra Metro Education Directorate, using the interpretative paradigm to analyse qualitative data, colle...