ABSTRACT In Ghana, child nutrition and health are major public health and developmental challenges. In this study, interpretivist and positivist paradigms were applied to assess breastfeeding practices and risk of childhood morbidity. The GDHS 2014 data and in-depth interviews with mothers were used. Multivariate, geospatial, and inductive analyses were employed to manage the data. The study extracted 2202 respondents and engaged 20 participants. The multivariate logistic regression analyses...
ABSTRACT What factors account for the difference in gender representation in Ghana's Parliament? What is driving Ghana towards the achievement of gender equality in parliamentary representation? What measures are in place to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal five (SDG5) in the area specified? What seems to be slowing the process? Against this backdrop, countries including Ghana have consented to global developmental goals, particularly the SDG 5, aimed at achieving gender equality and ...
ABSTRACT This thesis investigates the sociopragmatics of requests in Logba, a Ghana-Togo Mountain language spoken in the Hohoe District of the Volta Region of Ghana. It aims at examining the use of request expressions in the language by systematically describing the various strategies and some socio-cultural situations where request expressions are used among the Logbas. The study shows that interlocutors‟ choice of request expression is contingent on variables such as gender, rank, age, po...
ABSTRACT The study made use of a descriptive cross sectional survey approach. The research approach involves the use of questionnaires to obtain quantitative data. The target population for the research consisted of workforce comprising management, employees , and customers of MPS container terminal. Consequently, six (6) technical/operations managers were randomly selected from a population of eight (8) managers. Also, a sample of seventy (70) respondents was randomly selected from a populat...
ABSTRACT Meningitis health education programmes are prevalent in the meningitis belt of Ghana. This is due to the severity of the disease and its ability to cause permanent deformities and even deaths. The objective of the study was to ascertain the level of knowledge on symptoms, treatment and prevention among the residents of the endemic communities of Tamale and Bole, to assess the effectiveness of the various channels employed by the health education programmes in their effort to create a...
ABSTRACT Pregnancy is a pre-condition to reproduction and childbearing. However, the life-threatening risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth have turned the whole process into one full of anxiety and fear as some women never make it alive. Upon several efforts by governments and international organizations, it is sad to still see families losing their loved ones during pregnancy or childbirth especially in our part of the world. Numerous studies tend to focus on the provision and util...
ABSTRACT Globally, children are engaged in a wide-range of activities both in the informal and the formal sectors. Child labour has been defined by the ILO as “work that impairs children’s well-being or hinders their education, development and future livelihoods”. In addition, several theories and models strive to redefine and draw the pattern clear about child labour. The main objective of the study is an assessment of the meanings and practices of child labour in Old Fadama, in Ac...
ABSTRACT Domestic violence against women has been recognized globally as a major violation of a woman’s human rights. Women’s socioeconomic and demographic characteristic has made some women subject to abuse than other women. This study primarily examined women’s socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and their experience of domestic violence. The study also examined the regional differentials of domestic violence against women in Ghana. A total number of 1671 women aged 15-...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the mode of communication and the preferred channels for communication at the head office of the newspaper organisation; Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL). It also sought to find out employees’ knowledge of the tools used by management in communicating with them. The mixed-method approach was used for the data collection. Interviews were conducted with 3 managers purposively selected and the data analysed using thematic areas. One hundred q...
ABSTRACT The stored information about the grammar in the mental lexicon of the interlocutors does not only include the morphological, syntactic and semantic components of grammar, but also its phonological component. Phonology is a component of the grammar of language which involves the production, perception as well as the interpretation of sounds. This thesis discusses the phonology and phonological processes that are specific to Dagara, a dialect of Dagaare in the Upper West Region, within...
ABSTRACT In the current global business environment, organisations are faced with constant change. The core objective of the study was thus, to assess change management processes and its effects on employee stress management in the organisation using the Ghana Scholarships Secretariat (GSS) as the case. The study utilised concurrent mixed method research design. Questionnaire and interview guide were used to obtain data from the respondents for the study. Fifteen (15) respondents were conveni...
ABSTRACT The study examines economic migration from Ghanaian female migrants to the Gulf States. The study examines, specifically, the trends of female migration to the Gulf States within the last decade, the main factors that is influencing the migration, the experiences of the female migrants once they arrive in the Gulf States, as well as some policy recommendations to address the issues that Ghanaian women face when they migrate to the Gulf States. Relying on the neo-classical equilibrium...
ABSTRACT The study examines knowledge construction on female genital cutting (FGC) and notions of womanhood and the resultant discourses by the Maasai community in Kajiado, Kenya. There has been a global upsurge in anti-FGC interventions by the international community, feminist movements, national governments, and NGOs in the last three decades which have described FGC as a barbaric practice that violates the health and human rights of docile and helpless women and girls. Kajiado has been a r...
ABSTRACT The silence of God and the problem of evil are mysterious issues and a major concern for human history which many have tried to unravel. However, some contemporary Charis-matic Churches try to use motivational or prosperity gospel to resolve the problem of evil. Some of their leaders preach that Christians must not lack anything. If that is so, how do we explain the circumstances of poverty, sufferings, natural and man-made disasters that claim so many lives? Is it because those who ...
ABSTRACT The research was birthed out of a critical observation of the high incidence of non-maintenance of children whose parents are separated. It was imperative that a research be conducted to identify the challenges associated with the implementation of child maintenance provisions so that such findings may be used by policy actors to initiate the needed interventions as a proper implementation process will subsequently lead to the curbing of this issue. It was also imperative that this r...