Abstract Evaluation has been recognised as having the potential to contribute to the effectiveness of development interventions. Using a mixed method approach involving surveys and Q Methodology, the study examines evaluation processes and evaluation use particularly process use in evaluations in Northern Ghana; a zone in which the framework for monitoring and evaluation of development interventions developed by the National Development Planning Commission has been piloted. Evaluation capac...
ABSTRACT The Department of Feeder Roads, like most Ghanaian organizations, does not give much attention to the human being as a vital resource. As a result of this no proper planning is made for human resource development. This is the issue that the study set to investigate, using the Department of Feeder Roads as a case. The objective was to find out the human resource situation in the Department of Feeder Roads, bringing out the shortcomings in human resource administration and proposing ...
ABSTRACT Training and developing staff are key elements in the achievement of organisational goals, and the performance and quality of an organisation depend on the quality of its human resource. The objective of the study was to assess the staff training and development process at the Takoradi Polytechnic. The data for the study was gathered through two media - questionnaires and interview guide. The study employed the quota and simple random sampling techniques. A total of 222 respondents...
ABSTRACT Teenage pregnancy is a social problem that affects the social well-being of teenagers. Prevention of teenage pregnancy will help to improve the livelihood of teenagers and reduce the prevalence of some social vices in Ghana. This study sought to investigate the causes and consequences of teenage pregnancy in AssinSouth District. Ninety pregnant teenagers or teenage mothers, 6 Head of Health Directorate and 6 Traditional Birth Attendants were interviewed for the study. Both in-depth...
ABSTRACT This study examined private sector participation in the management of water supply systems in seven small settlements in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions. The seven water supply systems selected were located in the following towns, Bekwai, Ejura and Kuntenase all in the Ashanti region and Nkoranza, Atebubu, Duayaw Nkwanta, and Nante in the Brong Ahafo region. The objective of the study is to examine the participation of private sector in the management of small town water supply ...
ABSTRACT The study examined the link between livelihoods, poverty and environmental degradation in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region. Available literature shows that, the region is one of the poorest in Ghana and agriculture is the main livelihood. The main data collection methods employed were household interviews, focus group discussions and library search. The study covered 90 respondents selected by simple random sampling, purposive sampling and systematic random sampli...
ABSTRACT This study aimed to examine the issue of job stress and its effect on some ‘human components’ of HRD (general health, wellbeing, capabilities and cognitive capacity). The study adopted a descriptive research design, utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods. Target population comprised staff of the College of Distance Education, University of Cape Coast. The census approach was used to include all the 223 staff at the College in the study. Data collection was done thro...
ABSTRACT Women all over the world play a key role in the socio-economic development of every country. In Ghana, as in elsewhere. the varied ~t~grees of empowennent due to the social, economic and cultural nonns and practices have attracted interventions that seek to push forward the advancement of women. A study into the socio-economic circumstances of omen is thus important since most previous research treat women as an entity regardless of their intra-gender situations. The objective of t...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted on the premise that despite the introduction of free maternal delivery policy geared at reducing maternal mortality, the incidence of maternal mortality is still on the high side. The objectives of the study were to examine the causes and effects of maternal mortality, examine the challenges of the free maternal delivery policy, investigate the potentials of the free maternal delivery policy and also assess the effect of the free maternal delivery policy on ...
Abstract Demand Responsive Approach (DRA), adopted as a policy for rural water delivery in Ghana, is an attempt within a decentralized programme to improve the efficiency of service supply and also to make users take key decisions about the service they want and are willing and able to pay for. This study was conducted in communities where the DRA had been applied under the National Community Water and Sanitation Programme (NCWSP) in the Shai-Osudoku District of Ghana. The aim was to examine ...
ABSTRACT The study investigates the attitudes of the public, workers towards persons with disability in the Tema and Accra municipality and metropolis respectively. The study employed a cross-sectional study design to interview one hundred and fifty three respondents made of fifty three Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and one hundred able workers or Non Persons with Disabilities (NPWDs). The one hundred NPWDs were interviewed to collect views on their attitude towards fellow workers who are ...
ABSTRACT The study sought to examine police training instructor’s participation in curricula decision making in the training of police recruits on conflict and crime management in Ghana. A descriptive research design was used where questionnaires were used to elicit information from personnel at the National Police Training School (NPTS). Due to the smaller number of training instructors at the NPTS census was used. The study also uses qualitative information from some of the senior polic...
ABSTRACT To ensure its democratic governance, Ghana has established the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) in particular to promote and protect human rights and freedoms and administrative justice. There is not enough comprehensive literature from studies on the effect of a national human rights institution like the CHRAJ on the development of a culture of human rights and its impact on promotion of good governance. Non-interventional and descriptive study design ...
ABSTRACT The main objective of the study was to examine the bullying of the male-child in selected senior high schools in Ghana. The descriptive and exploratory research designs were used for the study. A multi-stage sampling procedure, comprising purposive, stratified, simple random and snowball sampling technique, was used in the selection of the sample. A total of 354 respondents were drawn from six schools in Kumasi, Cape Coast and Tamale. Three interview schedules were generated for th...
ABSTRACT The goal of all development is to help people attain high quality of life. People living in rural areas need more attention in the realisation of this goal because they are more disadvantaged. The socio-economic development approach, which is the major approach to development and driven by modernisation, overlooks other important factors of quality of life. From the literature, integrative quality of life (IQOL) theory addresses these challenges when adopted in project planning. Th...