A5085261958- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Local Economic Development and Planning
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
2020-2025
Kwame Nkrumah University
2021-2023
The role of informal waste service providers (IWSPs) in sustainable management is not well understood urban discourses, despite their entrenched presence and emerging popularity developing countries. Using Kumasi, a hotspot IWSPs' activities Ghana, we explore the intricacies IWSPs focusing on nature, operational practices complexities through prism narratives. mixed study research approach underpinned by neo-institutionalism theory, unravelled that given nature challenges IWSPs, may be...
Alongside efforts to improve safe management of feces along the entire sanitation chain, including after toilet, global are focusing on universal access 'basic' services: onsite facilities that safely contain excreta away from human contact. Although fecal sludge is improving in urban areas, open drains remain a common fate for these often densely-populated neighborhoods low-income countries. To-date, it unclear what extent complete coverage reduces contamination environment and how varies...
During 2014 to 2019, the SaniPath Exposure Assessment Tool, a standardized set of methods evaluate risk exposure fecal contamination in urban environment through multiple pathways, was deployed 45 neighborhoods ten cities, including Accra and Kumasi, Ghana; Vellore, India; Maputo, Mozambique; Siem Reap, Cambodia; Atlanta, United States; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Lusaka, Zambia; Kampala, Uganda; Dakar, Senegal.Assess compare via pathways cities.In total, 4053 environmental samples, 4586 household...
Land use planning remains an integral tool for guiding the growth and development of human settlements due to competing interests claims individuals over land. Two major approaches are adopted - conventional participatory with inconclusive findings on best approach employ towards involvement all stakeholders in promoting orderly growth. This study thus contributes this debate by exploring how land affect preparation outcome plans Ghana, using Abuakwa Newtown Atwima Nwabiagya municipality...
This study examines the determinants of place attachment among flood victims in two low-income communities Aboabo and Asawase Kumasi, Ghana. It draws on empirical evidences from 203 households key informants to explore enduring communal mobilisation social capital exhibited by during after floods. The reveals context-specific structural non-structural coping strategies, shaped intense local knowledge, lived experiences affected households. We recommend that knowledge residents' attachments...
Over the past two decades, Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) has been a pragmatic strategy towards universal Primary Care (PHC) in Ghana. However, ability capacity of these facilities to deliver quality primary health care remain an illusion as they are still crumbling myriad challenges. These challenges translated poor-quality services provision low community utilization CHPS facilities. The study presents comparative analysis three communities Kassena-Nankana East...
Property rate is widely considered as the most significant and stable revenue source for local governments. However, it fraught with challenges. These include lack of geo-data on rateable properties manual approach towards collection monitoring. A mixed method was adopted to gather analyse data from 15 government officials 5000 using interview guides semi-structured questionnaires assess property capacity a government. Geospatial technology applied management possible alternative. The study...
Both local and foreign volunteers have been involved in community development activities Ghana. However, there is a dearth of research on the perceived real impacts delivering services, reasons for volunteering, potential volunteering to supplement human financial resources governments Ghana, conditions required more successful outcomes. This qualitative study examined across 15 communities Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA) Municipality Ghana’s Central Region. It found that empowered...
The Fogg Behaviour Model suggests that for behaviour to occur, motivation, ability and a trigger must interact at the same time. Using this framing, paper investigates reflects on triggers of energy use among low-income urban households in Kumasi, second largest city Ghana within broader framing sustainable transition. research adopted transdisciplinary approach. Selected voluntarily participated project implemented over period 2 years. Households were grouped into full-treatment,...
A failure of urban planning in many developing countries is evidenced by encroachment on road reservations. Urban literature suggests that such largely explained poverty and growth. But how do encroachers find space the reservations? This paper examines along Anloga Junction to Ejisu section Kumasi–Accra highway Ghana. It argues formal rules are not effective governing reservations: informal rooted social networks reciprocity matter more. The research involved interviews with encroachers,...