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Author : Leonard Kwami Tabernacle Dorvlo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays on Community Development in Ghana written by Leonard Kwami Tabernacle Dorvlo and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429950772
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Changing Social Structure in Ghana written by Jack Goody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. The book looks in detail at the problems of particular sub-groups and sectors in one single nation and they show that the field-worker with a wide comparative background in the range of pre-industrial societies has a positive role to play in contemporary social science.
Author : Isaac Kofi Biney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040030955
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Community Development in Ghana written by Isaac Kofi Biney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores sustainable community development in Ghana post-COVID-19, highlighting examples of how individuals facing extreme challenges have adapted to their changing circumstances. Through the voices of African researchers, it explores the different responses that local, subnational, and national stakeholders and communities initiated to preserve the gains made in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana during the global pandemic. This collection considers how policy makers are tackling the pressing issues of sustainability, climate change and its effects on Africa and Ghana in particular, and multi-stakeholder policy responses to building communities in a post-COVID-19 world. The case studies show how communities are interacting to ensure sustainable community development and learning in the Global South, and the role that education and learning, both formal and informal, play in strengthening livelihoods, choices, and opportunities in African communities. An assessment of multi-stakeholder policy responses to building communities in Ghana, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of Education, Education Management, Sociology, Economics, and African Studies. It will also be of interest to policy makers and practitioners engaged in community development programmes and activities and the development of associated policies.
Author : Phanwin Yokying
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780355884012
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on Women's Empowerment written by Phanwin Yokying and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays that examine fundamental development challenges affecting women's and men's livelihoods in Ghana and Thailand. The first essay of this dissertation studies the effects of joint and individual land rights on men's and women's voice, or their ability to influence the use of agricultural earnings. It also investigates how men's voice and women's voice impact per capita consumption of market-produced, homegrown, and total food. Using the 2012 Feed the Future Baseline Survey from Ghana, this paper focuses on a sub-sample of married male and female farmers living in the Upper West, Upper East, Brong Ahafo, and Northern Regions of Ghana. The regression results indicate that land ownership, especially individual land rights, empowers both men and women by strengthening their ability to influence the use of agricultural earnings. Stronger influence over how agricultural earnings are used, in turn, enables both men and women to leverage the resources available to provide for household food security; per capita consumption of homegrown and total food raises when men and women have greater voice. These findings underline the importance of improving access to and ownership of land to economically and socially empower male and female farmers and to help address the chronic issue of food insecurity in Ghana. The second essay investigates how time in domestic and care work and in income-generating work activities is correlated with women's and men's abilities to become active members of economic and social groups. These groups include producers' and resource users' groups; religious groups; civic groups; and credit and savings groups. Using the 2012 Feed the Future Population Based Survey from Ghana, this paper focuses on a sub-sample of married women and men living in dual-adult households. The regression results indicate that women's time in domestic and care tasks is negatively correlated with the probability of becoming active group members in producers' and resource users' groups, civic groups, and religious groups. In contrast, the amount of time men spend in domestic and care work is not correlated with their group membership. While women's time in income-generating activities has no influence on their membership in producers' and resource users' and civic groups, their active membership in religious groups along with credit and savings groups complements their time in income-generating work. Men's time in income-generating activities increases their participation in these economic and social groups, especially in producers' and resource users' groups. Combining domestic and care work with income-generating work time, an increase in women's total workload decreases their membership in producers' and resource users' groups, civic groups, and religious groups and increases their participation in credit and savings groups. Men's total workload, on the other hand, increases their participation in producers' and resource users' groups, civic groups, along with credit and savings groups. These results point to the importance of accommodating women's work responsibilities as a strategy to increase women's opportunities to receive development services delivered through community-based groups. The third essay examines the relationships between children's time in work activities and the labor supply of their parents in the context of Thailand. Market work as well as domestic and care tasks are the two types of children's work activities considered in this analysis. The empirical analysis is based on the 2009 Labor Force and Time Use Surveys. The results indicate that children's time in market work is a complement to parents' labor supply. The complementary relationships are more pronounced between mothers' and older girls' labor supply and between fathers' and older boys' time in market activities, providing support for gender segregation in the relationships between parents' and older children's labor supply. In terms of domestic and care tasks, the regression estimates show that changes in parents' labor supply do not have significant influence on children's time in domestic and care tasks, particularly among girls, but boys' time in domestic and care tasks is found to be a weak substitute for parents' labor supply. The findings suggest that anti-poverty or expansionary policies that aim to increase adult labor force participation can have a spillover effect on children by increasing the need for older children to be involved in market work activities.
Author : Anthony Y. Naaeke
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433106804
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Critical Essays on Dagaaba Rhetoric written by Anthony Y. Naaeke and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric prepares the ground for action. It is essential to social change and social stability. Hence the essays in this book will introduce the reader to the cultural narratives of the Dagaaba of Ghana and show how community beliefs and values are enacted in ritual celebrations, as well as in advocacy campaigns and social movements. Critical Essays on Dagaaba Rhetoric is a pioneering effort in expanding the scope of rhetoric beyond the mainstream of the discipline. As an entry point into Dagaaba rhetoric, this book will be a stimulus for further research on Dagaaba rhetoric.
Author : James Gibbs
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025174
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Nkyin-kyin written by James Gibbs and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together essays written over a thirty-five year period. They reflect James Gibbs's position vis-à-vis the Ghanaian theatre as sometimes a remote onlooker, sometimes an enthusiastic participant observer, deeply involved in issues of perception and influence in a society moving through colonialism to nationalism, independence and beyond. The main body of the book is divided into four sections. The first, “Outsiders and Activists,” looks at theatre for community development during the late 1940s, some connections between drama and film, and the astonishing involvement in Ghanaian performance culture of the Haitian poet and playwright Felix Morisseau–Leroy. The second section, “Intercultural Encounters,” examines ways in which classic Greek drama has been used by producers and writers in West Africa, with special reference to Victor Yankah, Kobina Sekyi (Ghana's first published playwright), and the Nigerian Femi Osofisan. Section Three, “Plays and Playwrights,” concentrates on Efua Sutherland, Ama Ata Aidoo, and Joe de Graft. This section uncovers issues of documentation and achievement that draw attention to the need for investment in organising resources for writing Ghana's theatre history. The volume draws to a close with personal accounts of touring student productions in the 1960s (with due attention to the influence of Bertolt Brecht) and of involvement in a British film production on location. The book closes with an updated complete bibliography of Ghana's chief dramatist, Efua Sutherland.
Author : Pius Nwabufo C. Okigbo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Essays in the Public Philosophy of Development: Studies in the political economy of Africa written by Pius Nwabufo C. Okigbo and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Holly Ashford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000801810
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982 written by Holly Ashford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the history of women’s reproductive health in Ghana, arguing that between the 1920s and 1980s, it was largely driven by discourses of development and population control rather than a concern for women’s health or rights. Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice. Spanning the colonial and immediate postcolonial periods, this book demonstrates that whilst the substance of development discourse shifted over time, principles of development continued to be used to impact and legitimise reproductive health policy and practices well after independence. The book explores Ghana’s pluralist health system, the introduction of maternal and child welfare, the dominance of the Red Cross in Ghana’s maternal and child health landscape, nationalist pronatalism and global population activism. In order to understand how global iterations of development and health policy impacted ordinary lives in Ghana, the author uses evidence from multiple ‘levels,’ including private papers, national archives and records of international and transnational organisations. Providing balanced archival perspectives, the book includes extensive oral history interviews carried out with both rural Ghanaian women and traditional birth attendants, as well as with midwives, doctors and family planning fieldworkers. This book will have an important impact on a number of historical fields including Ghanaian history, global health history, global histories of population and family planning and histories of development. It will be of interest to researchers and students in the history of public health, development, Africa, Ghana and gender.
Author : Peter Sarpong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Cultural Perspectives on Ghana's Development and Other Essays on Ghana@50 written by Peter Sarpong and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Eversley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137502126
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Social and Community Development written by John Eversley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and Community Development is an essential introduction to the subject for students, potential practitioners, and activists interested in community action and emancipatory social change. It reflects on the underlying principles of development: what development is, why it is promoted and the implications for practice, indicating potential strategies and goals.
Author : Jeffrey S. Ahlman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446150
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Living with Nkrumahism written by Jeffrey S. Ahlman and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, Ghana, under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People’s Party, drew the world’s attention as anticolonial activists, intellectuals, and politicians looked to it as a model for Africa’s postcolonial future. Nkrumah was a visionary, a statesman, and one of the key makers of contemporary Africa. In Living with Nkrumahism, Jeffrey S. Ahlman reexamines the infrastructure that organized and consolidated Nkrumah’s philosophy into a political program. Ahlman draws on newly available source material to portray an organizational and cultural history of Nkrumahism. Taking us inside bureaucracies, offices, salary structures, and working routines, he painstakingly reconstructs the political and social milieu of the time and portrays a range of Ghanaians’ relationships to their country’s unique position in the decolonization process. Through fine attunement to the nuances of statecraft, he demonstrates how political and philosophical ideas shape lived experience. Living with Nkrumahism stands at the crossroads of the rapidly growing fields of African decolonization, postcolonial history, and Cold War studies. It provides a much-needed scholarly model through which to reflect on the changing nature of citizenship and political and social participation in Africa and the broader postcolonial world.
Author : Nadda, Vipin
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668467984
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Inclusive Community Development Through Tourism and Hospitality Practices written by Nadda, Vipin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable tourism should not be limited to environmental preservation; the sociocultural and economic sides should also be considered. There is a need for an integrated approach recognizing the resources, facilities, and infrastructures that are interrelated with the social, cultural, and natural environment. Community development becomes a reality only by merging the principles of sustainability with growth objectives. Even though investments in environmentally friendly infrastructure and related services are fundamental, there is a need to address gender inequalities, exploitation, and commercialization of culture. Further, there is a need to prioritize the link between tourism and poverty reduction. Inclusive Community Development Through Tourism and Hospitality Practices explores various viable strategies for the adoption of sustainable approaches that can eventually boost economic growth and poverty reduction all over the world. Covering topics such as international tourism, sustainable development, and tourism reinforcement, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for business leaders and managers, students and educators of higher education, community leaders, government officials, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
Author : Joseph R.A. Ayee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793603359
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Politics, Governance, and Development in Ghana written by Joseph R.A. Ayee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it achieved independence in 1957, the West African state of Ghana has become the torchbearer of African liberation, as well as a laboratory for the study of endemic problems facing the African continent. In terms of democratic consolidation, the country holds a unique position on the continent as beacon of stability and democracy. Politics, Governance, and Development in Ghana takes critical stock of the landmark themes that have dominated its history since independence. The contributors address issues such as citizenship, civil society, the military, politicians, chiefs, transnational actors, the public sector and policies, the executive branch, decentralization, the economy, electoral politics, natural resources, and relations with Asia and the diaspora. These themes support “mobilizing for Ghana’s future,” which is the theme for the diamond jubilee celebration of Ghana’s independence. Edited by Joseph R.A. Ayee, this book will deepen the literature on studies on Ghana especially in the areas of politics, governance, economy and development; serve as a resource for academics, students, practitioners; and commemorate the diamond jubilee celebration of Ghana’s independence.
Author : Ghana. Department of Social Welfare and Community Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Community Development in Ghana written by Ghana. Department of Social Welfare and Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Lauer
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9988647336
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives written by Helen Lauer and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus in September 2003. Hosted by the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, the symposium had the theme 'Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts & Humanities'.
Author : Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Daily Graphic written by Yaw Boadu-Ayeboafoh and published by Graphic Communications Group. This book was released on 2006-03-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Douglas Grischow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shaping Tradition written by Jeff Douglas Grischow and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study of development in Northern Ghana provides a fascinating new analysis of the colonial attempt to preserve African peasant communities in the face of economic transformation between 1899 and 1957.
