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Diaw, Kofi. "Aryeetey, Ernest, "Decentralizing Regional Planning in Ghana" (Book Review)." Third World Planning Review 8, no. 2 (1986): 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/twpr.8.2.l306393h22485h76.

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Mohammed, Hikimatu Tuntei-ya, and Zaffar Ullah. "Reducing the unmet needs of family planning among women of reproductive age in Northern Region of Ghana." Journal of Health Technology Assessment in Midwifery 3, no. 2 (2020): 99–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.31101/jhtam.1515.

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The recent Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2014, estimated that 30 % of currently married women have an unmet need for family planning services, with 17% having an unmet need for spacing and 13% having an unmet need for limiting. The objective of the study was to review the unmet need of family planning in order to make appropriate recommendation to improve family planning use in the Northern Region of Ghana. A conceptual framework which outlines the factors that interplay to determine the use of family planning services in Northern Region of Ghana was designed and used for the study. The

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MacLean, Lauren Morris. "Mediating ethnic conflict at the grassroots: the role of local associational life in shaping political values in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana." Journal of Modern African Studies 42, no. 4 (2004): 589–617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x04000412.

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This article attempts to understand why ethnic-regional civil war has challenged the national unity of Côte d'Ivoire and not Ghana, two neighbouring countries with nearly identical ethnic, religious and regional divisions, by examining politics at the grassroots. Based on a carefully controlled comparison of two similar regions of Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the study investigates how participation in local voluntary associations reinforces the local experience of the state to shape the ongoing development of political values and affect the prospects for ethnic peace and democracy. The article fi

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Srivastava, Amit Kumar, Andrej Ceglar, Wenzhi Zeng, Thomas Gaiser, Cho Miltin Mboh, and Frank Ewert. "The Implication of Different Sets of Climate Variables on Regional Maize Yield Simulations." Atmosphere 11, no. 2 (2020): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos11020180.

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High-resolution and consistent grid-based climate data are important for model-based agricultural planning and farm risk assessment. However, the application of models at the regional scale is constrained by the lack of required high-quality weather data, which may be retrieved from different sources. This can potentially introduce large uncertainties into the crop simulation results. Therefore, in this study, we examined the impacts of grid-based time series of weather variables assembled from the same data source (Approach 1, consistent dataset) and from different sources (Approach 2, combin

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Morrison, Minion K. C., and Jae Woo Hong. "Ghana's political parties: how ethno/regional variations sustain the national two-party system." Journal of Modern African Studies 44, no. 4 (2006): 623–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x06002114.

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This paper analyses Ghanaian electoral geography and its accompanying political party variations over the last decade. After re-democratisation in the early 1990s, the Fourth Republic of Ghana has successfully completed multiple elections and party alternation. Due to its single-member-district-plurality electoral system, the country has functioned virtually as a two-party system, privileging its two major parties – the NDC and the NPP. However, close examination of election results in the last parliamentary and presidential elections reveals that notwithstanding the two-party tendency, there

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Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru, and David Hulme. "The Politics of Regional Inequality in Ghana: State Elites, Donors and PRSPs." Development Policy Review 33, no. 5 (2015): 529–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12124.

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Wilson, Himiede W., Donne K. Ameme, and Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi. "Contraceptive Methods Accessed in Volta Region, Ghana, 2009–2014." International Scholarly Research Notices 2017 (September 7, 2017): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7257042.

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Introduction. In 2016, Volta Region was one of the two regions in Ghana that recorded a high prevalence of teenage pregnancy, accounting for 15.5% of all adolescent pregnancies in the country. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of contraceptive methods accessed by person, place, and time in Volta Region, Ghana, 2009–2014. Method. We carried out a secondary analysis of contraceptive use data derived from the District Health Information Management System (DHIMS) 2 for Volta Region, between 2009 and 2014. We calculated proportions and described trends. Results. Over the five-year period

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Mensah, Mensah. "Residentsâ€™ Perceptions of Socio-economic Impacts of a Regional Trade Fair in Ghana." Journal of Social and Development Sciences 3, no. 7 (2012): 245–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v3i7.708.

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The growing trade fair economy has motivated studies relating to trade fair planning, effectiveness, and evaluation, among others. However, limited studies have explored residentsâ€™ perception of socio-economic impacts of trade fairs on communities. Since residentsâ€™ negative attitude can affect sustainability of trade fairs, it is important for organisers to understand residentsâ€™ perception of the socio-economic impacts of such events. The present study investigated residentsâ€™ perceptions of the impacts of a regional trade fair in Ghana. Through a quantitative research design, a questio

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Lobnibe, Isidore. "“They Vote Like Their Kindred”: Regional Citizenship, Electoral Politics, and Discourses of Belonging in Brong Ahafo, Ghana." Journal of Asian and African Studies 52, no. 8 (2016): 1225–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909616654299.

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This paper explores reactions to election results in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana from the perspectives of the politics of belonging debates – the distinction citizens of the same nation-state make between those who belong and those who belong less in one of Ghana’s highly competitive electoral regions. It argues that multi-party democracy has intensified or given rise to social and political tensions or conflicts in some local communities rather than enhance democratic ideals and peaceful coexistence

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Konlan, Kennedy Diema, Joseph M. Kombat, Milipaak Japiong, and Kennedy Dodam Konlan. "Perception of pregnant women on maternity care services at the Volta Regional Hospital, Ghana." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 5, no. 7 (2018): 2699. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20182602.

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Background: Maternity period is crucial and sensitive in the life of women due to various physiological changes that take place in the body during pregnancy and after. These changes need close monitoring to help optimize maternal and foetal health. This study explored pregnant women’s perceptions of maternity care services in the Volta Regional Hospital.Methods: Multiparous women (170) in the Ante Natal Clinic responded to a pretested questionnaire. The sample size was determined using Fischer’s formula for sample size calculation. Respondents were chosen using the convenient sampling method.

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Nyarko, Samuel H., and Lloyd Potter. "Levels and socioeconomic correlates of nonmarital fertility in Ghana." PLOS ONE 16, no. 2 (2021): e0247189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247189.

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Childbirth outside marriage has several negative implications for the well-being of children, women, and families globally. In sub-Saharan Africa, however, the phenomenon appears to be under-studied. In this study, we examine the levels and socioeconomic correlates of nonmarital fertility in Ghana. Using pooled data from the 2003, 2008, and the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys, logistic regression models were used in determining significantly predictive factors of nonmarital fertility. The results show that nonmarital fertility levels have been on the rise over time without any sign o

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Oteng-Ababio, Martin, Augustine Tanle, Samuel Twumasi Amoah, Louis Kusi, Enoch Akwasi Kosoe, and Ernest Bagson. "‘Informal Exceptionalism?’ Labour Migrants’ Creative Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Livelihoods in Accra, Ghana." Journal of Asian and African Studies 54, no. 1 (2018): 88–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909618789965.

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Intra- and inter-regional migration is widely described. Prior studies have attribute varied reasons for this development including the quest for greener pastures and unequal development in northern Ghana. What has escaped critical scrutiny is some migrants’ ability to escape extreme rural poverty, albeit in harsh urban environment. Such a missing gap can potentiate high policy failures, hence the need for academic attention. Using a mixed method, we focus on two informal daily livelihoods as exemplars – exceptionalism – in Accra. We see their embedded organisational vitality and dynamic netwo

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Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru. "The Politics of Resource Sharing and Regional Inequality in Ghana: Lessons for the post-2015 development agenda." Development 57, no. 3-4 (2014): 488–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/dev.2015.12.

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Assan, Abraham, Amirhossein Takian, Moses Aikins, and Ali Akbarisari. "Challenges to achieving universal health coverage through community-based health planning and services delivery approach: a qualitative study in Ghana." BMJ Open 9, no. 2 (2019): e024845. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024845.

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ObjectiveCommunity-based initiatives have enormous potential to facilitate the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC) and health system development. Yet key gaps exist and threaten its sustainability in many low-income and middle-income countries. This study is first of its kind (following the launch of the Sustainable Developments Goal [SDG]) and aimed to holistically explore the challenges to achieving UHC through the community-based health planning and service (CHPS) initiative in Ghana.DesignA qualitative study design was adopted to explore the phenomenon. Face-to-face indepth inter

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MacLean, Lauren M., George M. Bob-Milliar, Elizabeth Baldwin, and Elisa Dickey. "The construction of citizenship and the public provision of electricity during the 2014 World Cup in Ghana." Journal of Modern African Studies 54, no. 4 (2016): 555–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x16000574.

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ABSTRACTWhy did the Ghanaian state go to such extraordinary lengths to facilitate the reliable broadcast of the World Cup in 2014? During a period of frequent power outages, Ghana swapped power with regional neighbours and directed major domestic industries to reduce production in order to allow Ghanaians to watch their national soccer team compete in the World Cup. This paper investigates the politics of the public service provision of electricity in Ghana. We focus on the short-term crisis during the 2014 World Cup to reveal the citizens' and politicians' expectations about electricity as a

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Lentz, Carola, and Trevor Wiggins. "‘Kakube has come to stay’: the making of a cultural festival in Northern Ghana, 1989–2015." Africa 87, no. 1 (2017): 180–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972016000759.

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AbstractIn Ghana, cultural festivals, usually initiated and organized by the chiefs, provide public arenas where local and regional political elites voice demands vis-à-vis central government, and where national politicians canvass for support. Festivals offer commercial opportunities, forums to promote ‘development’, and occasions for entertainment. Yet advocating for ‘our own culture’ stands out as their very raison d’être, offering a frame for cultural entrepreneurs to organize performances that express and reconfigure local styles of music and dance to fit national formats. In this article

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Osei, Anja. "Formal party organisation and informal relations in African parties: evidence from Ghana." Journal of Modern African Studies 54, no. 1 (2016): 37–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x15000981.

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AbstractIt is often assumed that political parties in Africa have only weak formal structures and are instead dominated by informal, personalised networks. This paper seeks to challenge this view by presenting a much more nuanced picture of intra-party dynamics. Based on unique survey data from Ghana, it is shown how formal and informal party structures co-exist and interact at the national and constituency level. Because informal relationships are not directly observable and difficult to study, the paper employs a social network approach to map the personal interactions between the Members of

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Coleman, Simeon. "Where Does the Axe Fall? Inflation Dynamics and Poverty Rates: Regional and Sectoral Evidence for Ghana." World Development 40, no. 12 (2012): 2454–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.019.

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Konadu-Agyemang, Kwadwo, and Judith Shabaya. "What has Corruption Got to do with it? Understanding the Persistence of Rural-Urban and Inter-Regional Inequalities in Ghana and Zimbabwe." GeoJournal 62, no. 1-2 (2005): 129–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-005-8181-y.

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Lawson, Elaine Tweneboah. "Negotiating stakeholder participation in the Ghana national climate change policy." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 8, no. 3 (2016): 399–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-04-2015-0041.

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Purpose Stakeholder consultation and participation are central to the climate change policymaking process. The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of stakeholder participation in the Ghana National Climate Change Policy. It examines the actors in the policy space and the negotiations and tradeoffs made during the policymaking process. Finally, it outlines the steps undertaken to make the process participatory and consultative. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative method has been used for this paper. The research design involves a review of relevant literature on Ghana’s climate c

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Weesie, Ruben. "Towards Adaptive Commons: A Case Study of Agro-Pastoral Dams in Northern Ghana." Sustainability 11, no. 2 (2019): 319. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11020319.

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Agro-pastoral dams (APDs) are an increasingly popular method of adaptation interventions improving communal water supply in rural West Africa. However, APDs are often constructed in areas where culturally heterogeneous pastoralists and farmers compete for similar land and water resources. Lifting open access water abundance is likely to change if not intensify ongoing tensions between farmers and settling Fulani herders. The extent of collective action and inclusivity of 6 APDs in Northern Ghana are analysed, combining theory from common-pool resource management and equity and justice in clima

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Dadzie, Dora, Richard Okyere Boadu, Cyril Mark Engmann, and Nana Amma Yeboaa Twum-Danso. "Evaluation of neonatal mortality data completeness and accuracy in Ghana." PLOS ONE 16, no. 3 (2021): e0239049. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239049.

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Background Cause-specific mortality data are required to set interventions to reduce neonatal mortality. However, in many developing countries, these data are either lacking or of low quality. We assessed the completeness and accuracy of cause of death (COD) data for neonates in Ghana to assess their usability for monitoring the effectiveness of health system interventions aimed at improving neonatal survival. Methods A lot quality assurance sampling survey was conducted in 20 hospitals in the public sector across four regions of Ghana. Institutional neonatal deaths (IND) occurring from 2014 t

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Tettey, Wisdom. "ICT, Local Government Capacity Building, and Civic Engagement: An Evaluation of the Sample Initiative in Ghana." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 1, no. 2 (2002): 165–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156915002100419790.

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AbstractThis paper evaluates a local Regional Network (LRNet) in one of Ghana's administrative regions; the purpose of the network is to enhance the capacity of the local government to perform its functions, promote transparency, and serve as a mechanism for civic engagement in the political process. I adopt Zhu's WSR approach as a conceptual model for this analysis, which examines, within a concrete setting, the nature, challenges, and outcomes that emanate from the intersection of the dual paradigm shifts in information technology and the reinvention of government. The case study concludes t

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Asuo-Mante, Eric, Abdul-Jaleel Mumuni, Myriam Asuo-Mante, Lawrence Yelifari, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, and James F. Phillips. "A Pilot Trial of Applying Geographic Information System Technology to Health System Strengthening in the Upper East Region of Ghana." Journal of Medical Informatics and Decision Making 1, no. 1 (2017): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.14302/issn.2641-5526.jmid-17-1762.

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Despite widespread use of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology to strengthening health systems, the application of GIS to health systems strengthening in resource-poor Sub-Saharan Africa remains rare. Over the June 2012 to December 2013 period, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) conducted a pilot application of GIS to health systems development in one rural impoverished district of the Upper East Region (UER). Workers were deployed to gather coordinates of health care facilities throughout the UER. Coordinates were linked to routine health information data, and utilized to generate maps

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Dilley, Roy. "Tukulor weavers and the organisation of their craft in village and town." Africa 56, no. 2 (1986): 123–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1160629.

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Opening ParagraphThe subject of weavers has until recently received surprisingly little detailed attention from writers on Africa, given the importance of cloth in local and regional trade, particularly in West Africa. Yet, even here, cloth trading has received scholarly attention in the works of Hodder (1967, 1980) and of Johnson (1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980). In addition crafts and craftsmen have been the subject matter of occasional papers and collected works (for example, d'Azevedo, 1973; Hallpike, 1968; Llovd, 1953; Murray, 1943), but few authors have concentrated on weavers alone. More

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Tengan, Callistus, Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa, Francis Guribie, and Joseph Annor-Asubonteng. "Analysis of the outcome features of effective monitoring and evaluation in construction project delivery." Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology 17, no. 6 (2019): 1192–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jedt-03-2019-0076.

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Purpose This study aims to analyze the outcome features of effective monitoring and evaluation in construction projects delivery. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a quantitative research approach. Questionnaire survey was administered to 230 participants who were drawn from metropolitan, municipal, district assemblies and regional coordinating councils in Ghana. Data collected were analyzed to determine the key and underlying monitoring and evaluation outcome features in project delivery. A Cronbach’s α value of 0.953 was achieved based on standardized items, while the Kaiser–Meye

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Akubia, John E. K., and Antje Bruns. "Unravelling the Frontiers of Urban Growth: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Land-Use Change and Urban Expansion in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana." Land 8, no. 9 (2019): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land8090131.

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This study analyzed and assessed spatio-temporal dynamics of land-use change (LUC) and urban expansion (UE) within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) of Ghana. This region serves as a case to illustrate how a major economic hub and political core area is experiencing massive spatial transformations, resulting in uneven geographies of urban land expansion. Quickbird/Worldview-2 images for the years 2008 and 2017 were segmented and classified to produce LUC maps. LUC and UE were analyzed by post-classification change detection and spatial metrics, respectively. The results revealed an in

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Bob-Milliar, George M. "‘TE NYƆGEYƐNG GBENGBENG!’ (‘WE ARE HOLDING THE UMBRELLA VERY TIGHT!’): EXPLAINING THE POPULARITY OF THE NDC IN THE UPPER WEST REGION OF GHANA." Africa 81, no. 3 (2011): 455–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972011000234.

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ABSTRACTThis article analyses the reasons why, since the beginning of the Fourth Republic in 1992, the Upper West Region (UWR) has become one of the strongholds of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in northern Ghana. In all five general elections to date, the NDC has won more than half of the presidential vote and over 70 per cent of the parliamentary seats. The article explores the factors that explain the NDC's electoral dominance in the UWR. At the regional level the accepted argument has been that the NDC's predecessor extended developments to the area. However, if voting preferences

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Karg, Hanna, Rafael Hologa, Johannes Schlesinger, Axel Drescher, Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic, and Rüdiger Glaser. "Classifying and Mapping Periurban Areas of Rapidly Growing Medium-Sized Sub-Saharan African Cities: A Multi-Method Approach Applied to Tamale, Ghana." Land 8, no. 3 (2019): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land8030040.

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Periurban areas of growing cities in developing countries have been conceptualised as highly dynamic landscapes characterised by a mixture of socioeconomic structures, land uses and functions. While the body of conceptual literature on periurban areas has significantly increased over the past two decades, methods for operationalising these multi-dimensional concepts are rather limited. Yet, information about the location and areal extent of periurban areas is needed for integrated planning in the urban–rural interface. This article presents the results of a study aiming at classifying and mapp

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Sumah, Anthony Mwinkaara, and Leonard Baatiema. "Decentralisation and Management of Human Resource for Health in the Health System of Ghana: A Decision Space Analysis." International Journal of Health Policy and Management 8, no. 1 (2018): 28–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2018.88.

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Background: The implications of decentralisation on human resource for health management has not received adequate research attention despite the presupposition that the concept of decentralisation leads to the transfer of management authority and discretion for human resource management from national levels to subnational levels. This study aims at investigating the extent to which decentralisation practice transfers management autonomy and discretion to subnational units, and the effect of the level of decision space on human resource management in the health sector. Methods: A mixed methods

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Anderson, Carl C., Manfred Denich, Kai Neumann, Kwadwo Amankwah, and Charles Tortoe. "Identifying Biomass-Based Value Webs for Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systems Modeling Approach." Sustainability 11, no. 10 (2019): 2885. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11102885.

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Food security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is dependent on complex networks of interconnected actors and the flows of resources (biomass, capital) and information among them. However, the degree to which actors and value chains of different crops are in fact interconnected and their current systemic influence on food security are unclear. Therefore, the concept of “value webs” to better capture the complexity within the networks emerges. Biomass-based value webs of selected crops in Ghana, Nigeria, and Ethiopia are modeled using the systems analysis software iMODELER and by eliciting factors as

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Schwarz, Dan, June-Ho Kim, Hannah Ratcliffe, et al. "The status of Ghanaian community health workers’ supervision and service delivery: descriptive analyses from the 2017 Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 survey." Gates Open Research 3 (May 20, 2019): 1468. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.12979.1.

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Introduction: Community-based services are a critical component of high-quality primary healthcare. Ghana formally launched the National Community Health Worker (CHW) program in 2014, to augment the pre-existing Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS). To date, however, there is scant data about the program’s implementation. We describe the current supervision and service delivery status of CHWs throughout the country. Methods: Data were collected regarding CHW supervision and service delivery during the 2017 round of the Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 survey. Descr

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Schwarz, Dan, June-Ho Kim, Hannah Ratcliffe, et al. "The status of Ghanaian community health workers’ supervision and service delivery: descriptive analyses from the 2017 Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 survey." Gates Open Research 3 (June 6, 2019): 1468. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.12979.2.

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Introduction: Community-based services are a critical component of high-quality primary healthcare. Ghana formally launched the National Community Health Worker (CHW) program in 2014, to augment the pre-existing Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS). To date, however, there is scant data about the program’s implementation. We describe the current supervision and service delivery status of CHWs throughout the country. Methods: Data were collected regarding CHW supervision and service delivery during the 2017 round of the Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 survey. Descr

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Schwarz, Dan, June-Ho Kim, Hannah Ratcliffe, et al. "The status of Ghanaian community health workers’ supervision and service delivery: descriptive analyses from the 2017 Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 survey." Gates Open Research 3 (August 23, 2019): 1468. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/gatesopenres.12979.3.

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Introduction: Community-based services are a critical component of high-quality primary healthcare. Ghana formally launched the National Community Health Worker (CHW) program in 2014, to augment the pre-existing Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS). To date, however, there is scant data about the program’s implementation. We describe the current supervision and service delivery status of CHWs throughout the country. Methods: Data were collected regarding CHW supervision and service delivery during the 2017 round of the Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 survey. Descr

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Pasricha, Sant-Rayn, Adrian Gheorghe, Fayrouz Ashour, et al. "Risk-Benefit and Cost-Effectiveness of Universal Iron Interventions for Public Health Control of Anemia in Young Children in 78 Countries: A Microsimulation Study." Blood 132, Supplement 1 (2018): 2276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-99-117611.

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Abstract Almost 300 million children worldwide are anemic. Universal distribution of iron interventions (iron supplements or iron-containing multiple micronutrient powders, MNPs) to young children (e.g. <2 years of age) is a key World Health Organization recommendation to prevent anemia in low-income countries. However, concerns of iron-induced infection risk and limited effectiveness for anemia and broader child health outcomes have raised questions about whether iron interventions produce a net health benefit and are cost-effective. This has constrained implementation. Net effects likely

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Chalfin, Brenda. "Waste work and the dialectics of precarity in urban Ghana: durable bodies and disposable things." Africa 89, no. 03 (2019): 499–520. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972019000494.

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AbstractWhat can the dialectics of waste work tell us about the urban underclass in the flux of late capitalism? What might waste reveal more broadly about the contradictions and uncharted possibilities of material accumulation in urban Africa? Utilizing a relational optic, these issues are explored from the perspective of young men working in the rubbish dumps of Ghana's ‘edge city’ of Ashaiman, a space where the detritus of local and global markets and struggles for urban survival converge. Here, day-to-day entanglements with city dwellers’ discarded items muddy the expected terms of economi

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Nyarko, Samuel H., Corey S. Sparks, and Fikrewold Bitew. "Spatio-temporal variations in unmet need for family planning in Ghana: 2003–2014." Genus 75, no. 1 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41118-019-0069-7.

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AbstractGhana has long prioritized family planning as a key strategy for improving health and socioeconomic development. However, despite the heavy investments in the sector over the last decade, the family planning program has not successfully improved the country’s family planning indicators. In this study, we describe the spatial and temporal patterns of unmet need for family planning from 2003 to 2014 and mainly estimate the socioeconomic factors affecting it. Using data from the 2003, 2008, and 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys, we map the regional and temporal trends in unmet nee

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Kankam, Stephen, Justice Nana Inkoom, Hongmi Koo, and Christine Fürst. "Envisioning alternative futures of cultural ecosystem services supply in the coastal landscapes of Southwestern Ghana, West Africa." Socio-Ecological Practice Research, September 8, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42532-021-00090-7.

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AbstractCultural ecosystem services (CES) in Southwestern Ghana evoke a strong sense of attachment of local land users to the landscape. Hence, their supply is necessary for a balanced socio-ecological system. This study explored the potential supply of cultural ecosystem services (science/education, spiritual, tourism, health and recreation benefits) under different land use planning (LUP) scenarios in Southwestern Ghana. Future LUP scenarios were developed and articulated with a diverse group of land-use planning actors (LUPAs) such as regional land use planners, environmental experts, resea

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Boateng, Godfred O., Dozie Okoye, Jonathan Amoyaw, and Isaac Luginaah. "Six decades after independence: the enduring influence of missionary activities on regional wealth inequalities in Ghana." Journal of Economic Geography, January 8, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lby067.

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Kwapong, Olivia. "Factors Influencing Information Delivery Technology Choice in Deprived Regions in Ghana." Journal of Community Informatics 3, no. 2 (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/joci.v3i2.2380.

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Using a contingent valuation (CV) method to quantitatively estimate the influence of selected socio-economic factors on households’ willingness to pay for alternative information delivery technologies, the study intended to provide basic information regarding rural households’ willingness to pay for information delivery technologies. This study used rural household survey data collected from three administrative regions in Ghana to examine rural women’s willingness to pay for information delivered via three technologies – community radio, private radio, and extension agents.  The p

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Afari-Asiedu, Samuel, Marlies Hulscher, Martha Ali Abdulai, Ellen Boamah-Kaali, Heiman F. L. Wertheim, and Kwaku Poku Asante. "Stakeholders’ perspectives on training over the counter medicine sellers and Community-based Health Planning and Services facilities to dispense antibiotics in Ghana." Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice 14, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-021-00349-0.

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Abstract Background Dispensing of antibiotics by over the counter medicine sellers (OTCMS) is a major driver of inappropriate use and resistance in low and middle income countries. Recent studies in Ghana revealed the need to consider training OTCMS and Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS)/health posts to dispense some antibiotics. Feasibility of training OTCMS and CHPS to dispense some antibiotics was explored in this study. Methods This was an explorative study involving 10 in-depth interviews (IDIs) among staff of Ghana health services (GHS), pharmacy council and the associat

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Ouedraogo, Leopold, Desire Habonimana, Triphonie Nkurunziza, et al. "Towards achieving the family planning targets in the African region: a rapid review of task sharing policies." Reproductive Health 18, no. 1 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-01038-y.

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Abstract Background Expanding access and use of effective contraception is important in achieving universal access to reproductive healthcare services, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), such as those in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Shortage of trained healthcare providers is an important contributor to increased unmet need for contraception in SSA. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends task sharing as an important strategy to improve access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services by addressing shortage of healthcare providers. This study explores the status,

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GHANN, PATRICIA. "Overhauling the Activities of Ghana Meteorological Agency through ICT." All Nations University Journal of Applied Thought, November 20, 2020, 213–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.47987/wujj3470.

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Faced with the growing risks of weather and climate disasters to economic and social development, the global community needs to act quickly to strengthen National Meteorological and Hydrological Services. This strengthening must be done in a way that transforms the agency, especially in developing Ghana into a robust professional agency capable of delivering the right information to the right people at the right time. Although the cost of modernizing and sustaining the Ghana Meteorological Agency will be huge, the rewards for Ghana and its citizens will be much significant. This analytical wor

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Derbile, Emmanuel K., Dramani J. M. File, and Alfred Dongzagla. "The double tragedy of agriculture vulnerability to climate variability in Africa: How vulnerable is smallholder agriculture to rainfall variability in Ghana?" Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 8, no. 3 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v8i3.249.

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This article analysed vulnerability of smallholder agriculture to climate variability, particularly the alternating incidences of drought and heavy precipitation events in Ghana. Although there is an unmet need for understanding the linkages between climate change and livelihoods, the urgent need for climate change adaptation planning (CCAP) in response to climate change makes vulnerability assessment even more compelling in development research. The data for analysis were collected from two complementary studies. These included a regional survey in the Upper West Region and an in-depth study

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Sekyi-Annan, Ephraim, Ekow Gaisie, Roland Nuhu Issaka, Gabriel Willie Quansah, Sadick Adams, and Enoch Bessah. "Estimating Soil Loss for Sustainable Crop Production in the Semi-deciduous Forest Zone of Ghana." Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5 (July 5, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.674816.

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Quantitative information on soil loss is relevant for devising soil conservation and crop management strategies to ensure sustainable fertility management and crop production. Estimations from runoff/erosion plots are expensive and laborious and thus requiring the exploration of other less expensive but reliable methods such as modeling. This study aimed to estimate current and future rates of soil loss for conservation planning toward sustainable crop production in the semi-deciduous forest zone of Ghana. The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), which took into consideration the rainfall char

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Freeman, Benedictus, and A. Townsend Peterson. "Primary Biodiversity Data Gaps Assessment and Data Use for Decision-making: A West African Experience." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3 (July 2, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.37685.

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Primary biodiversity data, data documenting presences of particular species at particular sites at a point in time, available in standard digital formats, provide the basis for many quantitative studies that can inform effective and reliable national, regional, and global biodiversity conservation decisions. However, these datasets are often unavailable, incomplete, or unevenly distributed across regions and landscapes. We assessed the survey completeness and gaps in current knowledge of birds of West Africa, using digital, accessible primary biodiversity data, obtained from the Global Biodive

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Larbi, Isaac, Fabien C. C. Hountondji, Sam-Quarcoo Dotse, et al. "Local climate change projections and impact on the surface hydrology in the Vea catchment, West Africa." Hydrology Research, August 17, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/nh.2021.096.

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Abstract Water security has been a major challenge in the semi-arid area of West Africa including Northern Ghana, where climate change is projected to increase if appropriate measures are not taken. This study assessed rainfall and temperature projections and its impact on the water resources in the Vea catchment using an ensemble mean of four bias-corrected Regional Climate Models and Statistical Downscaling Model-Decision Centric (SDSM-DC) simulations. The ensemble mean of the bias-corrected climate simulations was used as input to an already calibrated and validated Soil and Water Assessmen

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Adams, Abdulai, Livingstone Divine Caesar, and Nana Yamoah Asafu-Adjaye. "What Informs Farmers’ Choice of Output Markets? The Case of Maize, Cowpea and Livestock Production in Northern Ghana." International Journal of Rural Management, March 19, 2021, 097300522199442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973005221994425.

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This study analyses the main determinants of output market choices by rural farmers in northern Ghana amidst growing concerns of lack of lucrative markets for smallholder farmers. Using recent survey data collected from 448 households, the study applied the multinomial logistic regression (MLR) model with village markets as the base outcome. The findings revealed that association membership, access to storage facilities, openness to new production and marketing methods, access to financial services, knowledge of sustainable intensification (SI) practices, access to guaranteed market, availabil

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"Sociolinguistics." Language Teaching 39, no. 4 (2006): 312–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444806273853.

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06–816Afful, Joseph Benjamin Archibald (National U Singapore, Singapore), Address terms among university students in Ghana: A case study. Language and International Communication (Multilingual Matters) 6.1 (2006), 76–91.06–817Bhatia, Tej K. (Syracuse U, USA; tkbhatia@syr.edu), Super-heroes to super languages: American popular culture through South Asian language comics. World Englishes (Blackwell) 25.2 (2006), 279–298.06–818Clark, Rose (U Portsmouth, UK) & S. N. Gieve, On the discursive construction of ‘the Chinese learner’. Language, Culture and Curriculum (Multilingual Matters) 19.1 (200

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