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An Epidemiological Profile of Malaria and Its Control in Ghana
An Epidemiological Profile of Malaria and its Control in Ghana Report prepared by National Malaria Control Programme, Accra, Ghana & University of Health & Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana & AngloGold Ashanti Malaria Control Program, Obuasi, Ghana & World Health Organization, Country Programme, Accra, Ghana & The INFORM Project Department of Public Health Research Kenya Medical Research Institute - Wellcome Trust Progamme Nairobi, Kenya Version 1.0 November 2013 Acknowledgments The authors are indebted to the following individuals from the MPHD, KEMRI-Oxford programme: Ngiang-Bakwin Kandala, Caroline Kabaria, Viola Otieno, Damaris Kinyoki, Jonesmus Mutua and Stella Kasura; we are also grateful to the help provided by Philomena Efua Nyarko, Abena Asamoabea, Osei-Akoto and Anthony Amuzu of the Ghana Statistical Service for help providing parasitological data on the MICS4 survey; Catherine Linard for assistance on modelling human population settlement; and Muriel Bastien, Marie Sarah Villemin Partow, Reynald Erard and Christian Pethas-Magilad of the WHO archives in Geneva. We acknowledge in particular all those who have generously provided unpublished data, helped locate information or the geo-coordinates of data necessary to complete the analysis of malaria risk across Ghana: Collins Ahorlu, Benjamin Abuaku, Felicia Amo-Sakyi, Frank Amoyaw, Irene Ayi, Fred Binka, David van Bodegom, Michael Cappello, Daniel Chandramohan, Amanua Chinbua, Benjamin Crookston, Ina Danquah, Stephan Ehrhardt, Johnny Gyapong, Maragret Gyapong, Franca Hartgers, Debbie Humphries, Juergen May, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Kwadwo Koram, Margaret Kweku, Frank Mockenhaupt, Philip Ricks, Sylvester Segbaya, Harry Tagbor and Mitchell Weiss. The authors also acknowledge the support and encouragement provided by the RBM Partnership, Shamwill Issah and Alistair Robb of the UK government's Department for International Development (DFID), Claude Emile Rwagacondo of the West African RBM sub- regional network and Thomas Teuscher of RBM, Geneva. -
Ghana Marine Canoe Frame Survey 2016
INFORMATION REPORT NO 36 Republic of Ghana Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development FISHERIES COMMISSION Fisheries Scientific Survey Division REPORT ON THE 2016 GHANA MARINE CANOE FRAME SURVEY BY Dovlo E, Amador K, Nkrumah B et al August 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................... 2 LIST of Table and Figures .................................................................................................................... 3 Tables............................................................................................................................................... 3 Figures ............................................................................................................................................. 3 1.0 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 BACKGROUND 1.2 AIM OF SURVEY ............................................................................................................................. 5 2.0 PROFILES OF MMDAs IN THE REGIONS ......................................................................................... 5 2.1 VOLTA REGION .......................................................................................................................... 6 2.2 GREATER ACCRA REGION ......................................................................................................... -
North East Gonja District Assembly
Table of Contents PART A: STRATEGIC OVERVIEW ................................................................................ 3 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DISTRICT .................................................................... 3 2. VISION ..................................................................................................................... 3 3. MISSION .................................................................................................................. 3 4. GOALS ..................................................................................................................... 3 5. CORE FUNCTIONS ................................................................................................. 3 6. DISTRICT ECONOMY .............................................................................................. 4 7. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2020 ............................................................................... 6 8. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE PERFORMANCE ................................................ 7 9. NMTDF POLICY OBJECTIVES IN LINE WITH SDGs AND TARGETS AND COST 9 10. POLICY OUTCOME INDICATORS AND TARGETS .......................................... 10 PART B: BUDGET PROGRAMME/SUB-PROGRAMME SUMMARY ......................... 11 PROGRAMME 1: MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION ................................... 11 PROGRAMME 2: INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT .............. 24 PROGRAMME 3: SOCIAL SERVICES DELIVERY .................................................. 30 PROGRAMME 4: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -
Small and Medium Forest Enterprises in Ghana
Small and Medium Forest Enterprises in Ghana Small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) serve as the main or additional source of income for more than three million Ghanaians and can be broadly categorised into wood forest products, non-wood forest products and forest services. Many of these SMFEs are informal, untaxed and largely invisible within state forest planning and management. Pressure on the forest resource within Ghana is growing, due to both domestic and international demand for forest products and services. The need to improve the sustainability and livelihood contribution of SMFEs has become a policy priority, both in the search for a legal timber export trade within the Voluntary Small and Medium Partnership Agreement (VPA) linked to the European Union Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (EU FLEGT) Action Plan, and in the quest to develop a national Forest Enterprises strategy for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). This sourcebook aims to shed new light on the multiple SMFE sub-sectors that in Ghana operate within Ghana and the challenges they face. Chapter one presents some characteristics of SMFEs in Ghana. Chapter two presents information on what goes into establishing a small business and the obligations for small businesses and Ghana Government’s initiatives on small enterprises. Chapter three presents profiles of the key SMFE subsectors in Ghana including: akpeteshie (local gin), bamboo and rattan household goods, black pepper, bushmeat, chainsaw lumber, charcoal, chewsticks, cola, community-based ecotourism, essential oils, ginger, honey, medicinal products, mortar and pestles, mushrooms, shea butter, snails, tertiary wood processing and wood carving. -
Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana
Long-run Consequences of Health Insurance Promotion When Mandates are Not Enforceable: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ghana Patrick Opoku Asuming, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, and Armand Sim May 2019 Abstract We study long-run selection and treatment effects of a health insurance subsidy in Ghana, where mandates are not enforceable. We randomly provide different levels of subsidy (1/3, 2/3, and full), with follow-up surveys seven months and three years after the initial intervention. We find that a one-time subsidy promotes and sustains insurance enrollment for all treatment groups, but long-run health care service utilization increases only for the partial subsidy groups. We find evidence that selection explains this pattern: those who were enrolled due to the subsidy, especially the partial subsidy, are more ill and have greater health care utilization. Key words: health insurance; sustainability; selection; randomized experiments JEL code: I1, O12 Contact the corresponding author, Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, at [email protected]; Asuming: University of Ghana Business School; Kim: Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University; Sim: Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University. We thank Ama Baafra Abeberese, Douglas Almond, Diane Alexander, Jim Berry, John Cawley, Esteban Mendez Chacon, Pierre-Andre Chiappori, Giacomo De Giorgi, Supreet Kaur, Robert Kaestner, Don Kenkel, Daeho Kim, Michael Kremer, Wojciech Kopczuk, Leigh Linden, Corrine Low, Doug Miller, Sangyoon Park, Seollee Park, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Bernard Salanie, and seminar participants at Columbia University, Cornell University, Seoul National University, and the NEUDC. This research was supported by the Cornell Population Center and Social Enterprise Development Foundation, Ghana (SEND-Ghana)." Armand Sim gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Indonesia Education Endowment Fund. -
A Situation Analysis of Ghanaian Children and Women
MoWAC & UNICEF SITUATION ANALYSIS REPORT A Situation Analysis of Ghanaian Children and Women A Call for Reducing Disparities and Improving Equity UNICEF and Ministry of Women & Children’s Affairs, Ghana October 2011 SITUATION ANALYSIS REPORT MoWAC & UNICEF MoWAC & UNICEF SITUATION ANALYSIS REPORT PREFACE CONTENTS Over the past few years, Ghana has earned international credit as a model of political stability, good governance and democratic openness, with well-developed institutional capacities and an overall Preface II welcoming environment for the advancement and protection of women’s and children’s interests and rights. This Situation Analysis of Ghanaian children and women provide the status of some of List of Tables and Figures V the progress made, acknowledging that children living in poverty face deprivations of many of their List of Acronyms and Abbreviations VI rights, namely the rights to survive, to develop, to participate and to be protected. The report provides Map of Ghana IX comprehensive overview encompassing the latest data in economy, health, education, water and Executive Summary X sanitation, and child and social protection. What emerges is a story of success, challenges and Introduction 1 opportunities. PART ONE: The indings show that signiicant advances have been made towards the realisation of children’s rights, with Ghana likely to meet some of the MDGs, due to the right investment choices, policies THE COUNTRY CONTEXT and priorities. For example, MDG1a on reducing the population below the poverty line has been met; school enrolment is steadily increasing, the gender gap is closing at the basic education level, Chapter One: child mortality has sharply declined, full immunization coverage has nearly been achieved, and the The Governance Environment 6 MDG on access to safe water has been met. -
University of Ghana
University of Ghana http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh UNIVERSITY OF GHANA CENTRE FOR SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES A POLITICAL ECONOMY ANALYSIS OF GHANA’S SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME BY OBED OPOKU AFRANE 10308813 THIS DISSERTATION IS SUBMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, LEGON IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MA SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES DEGREE. JULY, 2015 University of Ghana http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh DECLARATION I, Obed Opoku Afrane, hereby declare that except the references to other people‟s work which were duly acknowledged, this dissertation is the result of my own independent work carried out at the Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, under the supervision of Dr. Seidu M. Alidu and that it has not been presented in whole or in part elsewhere for the award of another degree. ……………………………… ………………………... OBED OPOKU AFRANE DATE (10308813) ……………………………….. ………………………… DR. SEIDU M. ALIDU DATE (SUPERVISOR) i University of Ghana http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh DEDICATION I dedicate this work to my mother Gladys S. Bonsu, my grandmother Afia Fowaah, and my uncle Mr. William Yeboah. It is also dedicated to the memory of my late aunty, Ms. Angelina Owusu Achiaa who until her death provided unflinching support to my upbringing and education at the University of Ghana. God richly bless them all. ii University of Ghana http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost I give thanks to the Almighty God for His abundant mercies and favour upon my life, and the continuous blessings showered on me by bringing wonderful people into my life. I am most grateful to my supervisor, Dr. -
Download the Report Here!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IMANI Centre for Policy and Education wishes to acknowledge the immense support of the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands in Ghana for the conduct of this study. We would like to acknowledge the support of all the Local Government Experts, as well as, the national level institutions that supported this project. We remain truly grateful. IMANI CPE also wishes to extend gratitude to the research team; Mohammed Abubakari, Keshia Osei-Kufuor and Mudasiru Mahama as well as, the administrative support team made up of Josephine Tenkorang, Rosemary Noi and Enoch Osei who worked meticulously with all the different stakeholders to make this project a successful one. A special thanks to Patrick Stephenson (Head of Research,IMANI) for supporting the research process. To all the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), we are grateful, and hope the insights serve as a point of reflection for further improvement in service delivery for all-inclusive growth and development. The views expressed are those of the Research Team and does not necessarily reflect those of the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands in Ghana that funded the study. ii This document contains the findings of a research project that seeks to assess spending efficiency at the local level, particularly Internally Generated Funds, and how best demand side accountability could be enhanced. The project focuses on 15 MMDAs in Ghana. iii CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ...................................................................................................................................... -
2021 PES Field Officer's Manual Download
2021 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS POST ENUMERATION SURVEY (PES) FIELD OFFICER’S MANUAL STATISTICAL SERVICE, ACCRA July, 2021 1 Table of Content LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ..................................................................................... 11 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 12 CHAPTER 1 ................................................................................................................. 13 1. THE CONCEPT OF PES AND OVERVIEW OF CENSUS EVALUATION ........................ 13 1.1 What is a Population census? .................................................................................................. 13 1.2 Why are we conducting the Census? ...................................................................................... 13 1.3. Census errors .............................................................................................................................. 13 1.3.1. Omissions ................................................................................................................................. 14 1.3.2. Duplications ............................................................................................................................. 14 1.3.3. Erroneous inclusions ............................................................................................................... 15 1.3.4. Gross versus net error ............................................................................................................ -
Ghana Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment
GHANA CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION ASSESSMENT June 2011 This report was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It was prepared by the USDA Forest Service, International Programs. COVER PHOTOS: Courtesy of USFS, IP GHANA CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION ASSESSMENT Prepared by John A. Stanturf, Melvin L. Warren, Jr., Susan Charnley, Sophia C. Polasky, Scott L. Goodrick, Frederick Armah, and Yaw Atuahene Nyako JUNE 2011 DISCLAIMER The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ··········································································· IX EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ··············································································· 1 Climate Overview .............................................................................................................................................. 1 Climate Variability and Change ....................................................................................................................... 2 Uncertainty of Climate Projections ................................................................................................................ 3 Climate Policy Framework ............................................................................................................................... 3 Agriculture and Livelihoods ............................................................................................................................ -
Nanumba North District Assembly Bimbilla
NANUMBA NORTH DISTRICT ASSEMBLY BIMBILLA MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN (2014-2017) (BASED ON GHANA SHARED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENDA-GSGDA II) PREPARED BY: DISTRICT PLANNINIG COORDINATION UNIT BIMBILLA NOVEMBER 2013 10 | P a g e NANUMBA NORTH DISTRICT (2014 - 2017 MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN) ACRONYMS AC AREA COUNCIL AEA AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AGENT AIDS ACQUIRED IMMUNED DEFICIENCY SYNDROME ART ANTI RETROVIRAL THERAPY CAPS COMMUNITY ACTION PLANS CBRDP COMMUNITY BASED RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT CCBT COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING TEAM CHPS COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING SERVICES CRS CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES CSIR COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH CWSA COMMUNITY WATER AND SANITATION AGENCY DA DISTRICT ASSEMBLY DADU DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT DCE DISTRICT CHIEF EXECUTIVE DDF DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT FACILITY DFR DEPARTMENT OF FEEDER ROADS DHMT DISTRICT HEALTH MANAGEMENT TEAM DMTDP DISTRICT MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN DPCU DISTRICT PLANNING CO-ORDINATING UNIT DWAP DISTRICT WIDE ASSISTANCE PROJECT EHU ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH UNIT EU EUROPEAN UNION 11 | P a g e NANUMBA NORTH DISTRICT (2014 - 2017 MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN) GDO GENDER DESK OFFICER GES GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE GSGDA GHANA SHARED GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AGENDA GOG GOVERNMENT OF GHANA GPRS II GROWTH AND POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY HIV HUMAN IMMUNED VIRUS JHS JUNIOJR HIGH SCHOOL KVIP KUMASI VENTILATED IMPROVED PIT LI LEGISLATIVE INSTRUMENT M&E MONITORING AND EVALUATION MOE MINISTRY OF ENERGY MOFA MINISTRY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE MTDP MEDIUM TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN NDPC -
National Forest Forum
CIVIC RESPONSE NATIONAL FOREST FORUM REPORT OF THE NATIONAL FOREST FORUM HELD AT MIKLIN HOTEL, ACCRA SEPTEMBER 5 -9, 2011 2011 National Forest Forum Report (September 5-9, 2011) 1 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS AFB African Foresters Brigade CFC Community Forest Committee CRMU Collaborative Resources Management Unit DCE District Chief Executives DOLTA Domestic Lumber Trade Association FAO Food and Agriculture Organization FC Forestry Commission FFC Forest Fringe Communities FLEGT Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade FSD Forest Service Division GoG Government of Ghana IGF Internally Generated Funds KWC Kumasi Wood Cluster Association LAS Legality Assurance System MOFA Ministry of Food and Agriculture OASL Office of Administrator of Stool lands RMSC Resource Management Support Centre SRA Social Responsibility Agreement TVD Timber Verification Division VPA Voluntary Partnership Agreements WTS Wood Tracking System 2 2011 National Forest Forum Report (September 5-9, 2011) Table of Contents 1.0 INTRODUCTION 5 1.1 Workshop Objectives 5 1.2 Workshop Methodology and Presentations 5 1.3 Opening Session and participants Expectations 5 2.0 WORKING SESSIONS ON NEW FOREST INITIATIVES 7 2.1. Update on the Implementation of the Ghana-EU VPA 7 2.1.1 Forum Discussion and Recommendations on the VPA 8 2.2 Status of Forestry Sector Policy Reform and Initiatives 9 2.2.1 Revised Forest and Wildlife Policy 9 2.2.2 Update on the implementation of the National forestation programme 9 2.2.3 Forum Discussions and Conclusions on Plantation Development 11 2.2.5