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Livelihood Diversification Among Indigenous Peri-Urban Women in the Wa Municipality, Ghana 加纳瓦市城郊土著妇女生计多样化

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI: 10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.4

I. Abdulai, E. Derbile, M. N. Fuseini

引用次数: 9

The Role of Dagbani Movies in Promoting Peaceful Co-existence in Northern Region, Ghana 达格巴尼电影在促进加纳北部地区和平共处中的作用

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI: 10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.5

D. Tuurosong

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引用次数: 0

Tourism as a Pathway to Rural Livelihood Diversification: A Study of Mognori Ecovillage in the Savannah Region of Ghana 旅游业是农村生计多样化的途径——以加纳萨凡纳地区Mognori生态村为例

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI: 10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.3

C. W. Kuuder

{"title":"Tourism as a Pathway to Rural Livelihood Diversification: A Study of Mognori Ecovillage in the Savannah Region of Ghana","authors":"C. W. Kuuder","doi":"10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.3","url":null,"abstract":"As a means of mitigating the effects of restrictions arising from the creation of the Mole National Park, a tourism intervention was introduced in Mognori, a village on one of the fringes of the famed park.This study assesses the Mognori Ecovillage Project especially in terms of its anticipated role in diversifying livelihoods. Qualitative research approaches were employed. Instruments such as In-depthInterview schedules were used to elicit information from household heads while focus group discussions (FGD) were used to elicit data from homestay operators and cultural dance troupes. Tourism was found to play an important diversification role in the sense that it provided both full-time and alternative means of income for some residents especially in the dry season. Tourism has become the “life wire” of some locales and the community needs to take steps to attract more tourists and provide a richer but engaging itinerary through improving cultural tourism resources such as the introduction of products like farm tourism and angling in the Mognori River. It is recommended that the homestay providers be trained in visitor reception skills including basic communication in Enghish language to enhance the experience of visitors. \u0000Keywords: Mognori Ecovillage, homestay, livelihood diversification, stipends, canoe safari","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125419042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Examining Ghana’s Cash Transfer Programme Outcomes in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality from Conversation and Membership Categorisation Analyses Perspectives 从对话和成员分类分析的角度审视加纳在Ejisu-Juaben市的现金转移支付项目成果

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI: 10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.6

Dennis Puorideme

{"title":"Examining Ghana’s Cash Transfer Programme Outcomes in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality from Conversation and Membership Categorisation Analyses Perspectives","authors":"Dennis Puorideme","doi":"10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Since the start of cash transfer programmes in developing countries in the late 1990s and its spread, studies have demonstrated a variety of outcomes comprising education, health, and nutrition for the poorest households. These studies focused on macro analysis of programmes’ outcomes but paid little attention to an indepth micro study of the everyday intersubjective accounts and actions of local community focal persons and caregivers, which construct programme outcomes. The objective of this study is to highlight the everyday concrete outcomes of a cash transfer programme in Ejisu-Juaben Municipality in Ghana. This study draws on Foucault’s notion of subjectivation and discourse to construct a conversation and membership categorisation analyses framework to explore community focal persons’ and female caregivers’ conversations from focus group discussions. The Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty cash transfer programme in Ghana is the empirical case. This article demonstrates that caregivers and poor households arehappier, practice joint decision-making, and have cohesive social relations in poor households. Thus, localised programme outcomes improved participation in the decision-making, happiness, and social cohesion of beneficiary poor households. Evaluation mechanisms for programme outcomes could consider the everyday intersubjective accounts, practices of focal persons, caregivers/beneficiaries in poor households at the micro-level. \u0000Keywords: Social Protection, Ethnography, Discourse, Subjectivation, Governmentality","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125651519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-05-27 DOI: 10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.2

L. Derkong-Dery, G. Agbley

{"title":"Interrelated and Multi-Dimensional Factors Affecting Quality Basic Education in Nandom Municipality of the Upper West Region of Ghana","authors":"L. Derkong-Dery, G. Agbley","doi":"10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/GJDS.V18I1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Worldwide, quality education is a platform for social and personal development. In recent times, pupils in basic schools in Nandom Municipality seem not to acquire critical learning skills and consequently are underperforming. This paper investigates the interrelated and multi-dimensional factors affecting quality education in basic schools in the Nandom Municipality. Through the system and human capital theories, the paper draws a link between the various kinds of educational inputs pupils receive, the processing of such inputs and their outcomes, which reflect in their academic performance at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). The study employed a mixed research methods design. Cluster sampling technique and purposive sampling technique were used to select respondents. The study found that many pupils are not acquiring foundational knowledge in Literacy and Mathematics as reflected in the BECE performance due to inadequate educational resources, poor school management and supervision, and family socio-economic background factors. The study concludes that the quest for quality education for pupils would continue to be illusive unless the fundamentals underpinning quality education such as school resources and management are improved. It is recommended that government provides","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116198870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Modern Trends in Ownership and Acquisition of Large-scale Lands in Teshie and Kasoa, Ghana 加纳特希和卡索阿大规模土地所有权和征用的现代趋势

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-23 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v17i2.5

A. Miller, Oliver Tannor, Ofori Peres

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引用次数: 1

Application of Ecological Modernisation in Sand Winning in Building Construction in Tamale, Ghana 生态现代化在加纳塔马莱建筑施工中防砂的应用

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-23 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v17i2.1

I. Abu, K. Peprah

{"title":"Application of Ecological Modernisation in Sand Winning in Building Construction in Tamale, Ghana","authors":"I. Abu, K. Peprah","doi":"10.4314/gjds.v17i2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/gjds.v17i2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Sand is a raw material in the building and construction industry. Its sustainable supply is required to support infrastructure development in emerging cities in Ghana and elsewhere. However, sand is not adequately recognised as building construction foundational material, and is not sufficiently addressed by policy, planning, legislation and institutional management and remains a grey area in mainstream research. The increasing population in Tamale requires shelter which leads to exploitation of more sand. This study assessed sand winning from the periphery to support the core, Tamale. The study adopted crosssectional design with a mixed method approach. It involved a primary target of 200 sand winners and a secondary target of 59 household heads in a multi-stage sampling. Primary data were generated using questionnaire, key informant interview guide and personal observation. Data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Scientists’ descriptive statistics, central tendencies and cross tabulation with chi square test. The results showed that sand winning was done in six districts outside Tamale Metropolitan Assembly. Sand was winned from riverbeds, river walls and sand deposits. Sand winners preferred the use of manual labour to excavators. Sand winning provided livelihoods for tipper truck drivers and loading boys. Government regulation of the activity is limited and unsatisfactory. There was cordial relationship between sand winners and sand winning communities. It is recommended that government creates an agency to manage sand winning. \u0000Keywords: Sand Winning, Concretisation, Ecological Modernisation, Tipper Truck, Tamale","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116668962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

The Impact of Fee and Liability Waivers on Patronage of Rattray Park in Ghana 费用和责任豁免对加纳Rattray公园惠顾的影响

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-23 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v17i2.3

Seth Koli, C. W. Kuuder, Getrude Poku

{"title":"The Impact of Fee and Liability Waivers on Patronage of Rattray Park in Ghana","authors":"Seth Koli, C. W. Kuuder, Getrude Poku","doi":"10.4314/gjds.v17i2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/gjds.v17i2.3","url":null,"abstract":"The study assessed the relationship between fee and liability waivers introduced at Rattray Park vis-a-vis its patronage by low income earners within the Kumasi Metropolis. Barriers to park use as well as safety awareness were also analysed. The research design adopted as a guide was the survey study method. In all, 141 revellers were contacted through questionnaire administration within a 3-day period during the programme. Indepth Interview (IDI) schedules were also conducted with key stakeholders who were incharge of organising the waiver programmes. Quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS while qualitative data were manually transcribed. The study revealed that low income earners took advantage of the waiver programmes (attested by 44% of respondents) with p-value of 0.034 to make use of the park. Similarly, about 70% of respondents consideredinability to afford the cost of entry tickets a factor which hindered their recreational use of the park. The fee waiver concept was noted in the study as well-intended and a strategic recommendation suggested by park-goers signaled the need for boosting recreational activities in the park to engage visitors all day long for a richer experience. \u0000Keywords: Fee Waivers, Liability Waivers, Revellers, Rattray Park, Low Income Earners","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123839715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Enhancing Workplace Safety Culture in the Mining Industry in Ghana 加强加纳采矿业的工作场所安全文化

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-23 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v17i2.2

F. Opoku, Isaac Kosi, Dominic Degraft-Arthur

{"title":"Enhancing Workplace Safety Culture in the Mining Industry in Ghana","authors":"F. Opoku, Isaac Kosi, Dominic Degraft-Arthur","doi":"10.4314/gjds.v17i2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/gjds.v17i2.2","url":null,"abstract":"The paper concerns organisational safety culture and how it may be applied to reduce employee accidents in the mining industry in Ghana. A sample of 340 managerial workers of three mining companies in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality was selected using the simple random sampling technique. Data for the study was gathered using a survey questionnaire. The Structural Equation Modelling analysis technique was performed to establish the relationship between safety culture and each of the five dimensions of workplace safety (work safety, management safety practices, safety programmes, supervisor safety and co-worker safety). It was found that safety culture is a significant positive predictor of work safety (R2 = 0.039), management safety practices (R2 = 0.272), safety programmes (R2 = 0.159), co-worker safety (R2 = 0.225) and supervisor safety (R2 = 0.199). The study concluded that workplace safety can be improved by enhancing the safety culture in the mining industry in Ghana. The study recommends that in order to curb the incidence and occurrence of accidents and injuries in the mining industry in Ghana, Human Resource (HR) managers should lay more emphasis on ways that would enhance the safety culture of all employees in the industry. \u0000Keywords: Safety Culture, Mining Industry, Workplace Safety, Industrial Accidents, Ghana","PeriodicalId":110495,"journal":{"name":"Ghana Journal of Development Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128311161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Decentralised Monitoring in Emerging Local Governments: An Analysis of Benefits and Constraining Factors in the Lawra Municipality, Ghana 新兴地方政府的分权监督:加纳劳拉市的效益和制约因素分析

Ghana Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2020-10-23 DOI: 10.4314/gjds.v17i2.4

B. Akanbang, Cosmas Bekyieriya

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引用次数: 3