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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 We acknowledge in particular all those who have generously provided unpublished data, helped locate information or the geo-coordinates of data necessary to complete the analysis of malaria risk across Ghana: Collins Ahorlu, Benjamin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. -
Addressing the Causes and Consequences of the Farmer-Herder Conflict in Ghana [ Margaret Adomako]
KOFI ANNAN INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING TRAINING CENTRE POLICY BRIEF 6 | September 2019 Addressing the Causes and Consequences of the Farmer-Herder Conflict in Ghana [ Margaret Adomako] SUMMARY For several years, tensions have existed between local farmers and Fulani herdsmen in Ghana. However, various factors have recently, contributed to the tensions taking on a violent nature and becoming one of Ghana’s foremost security threats. Based on an extensive fieldwork conducted in 2016/2017, this policy brief discusses the causes of the Farmer-herder conflict and its consequences on the security, social and economic structures of the country. It looks at the shortfalls of Operation Cowleg, the major intervention that has been implemented by the state and concludes with a few policy relevant recommendations which includes a nationwide registration of herdsmen to support the government in the implementation of an effective taxation system. INTRODUCTION night grazing. The Asante Akyem North district of Ghana has Beginning from the late 1990s, the farmer-herder conflict has recorded various cases of this nature as a result of its lush become a recurring annual challenge for the Government vegetation. The district has a wet semi-equatorial climate with of Ghana. This conflict usually occurs between local farmers annual total rainfall between 125cm and 175cm making it a and herdsmen, mostly of the Fulani origin, over grazing lands favorite spot for crop farming2 and animal grazing especially and water sources in certain parts of Ghana. The conflict has in the dry season.3 Usually, during the dry season, herders been prevalent in Agogo, in the Ashanti region, and Afram from towns such as Donkorkrom and Ekyiamanfrom pass Plains in the Eastern region, although there have also been through Agogo on their way to Kumawu and Nyantakurom in recorded incidences in some parts of the Northern and Brong search of pasture during the dry season. -
South Dayi District
SOUTH DAYI DISTRICT i Copyright © 2014 Ghana Statistical Service ii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT No meaningful developmental activity can be undertaken without taking into account the characteristics of the population for whom the activity is targeted. The size of the population and its spatial distribution, growth and change over time, in addition to its socio-economic characteristics are all important in development planning. A population census is the most important source of data on the size, composition, growth and distribution of a country’s population at the national and sub-national levels. Data from the 2010 Population and Housing Census (PHC) will serve as reference for equitable distribution of national resources and government services, including the allocation of government funds among various regions, districts and other sub-national populations to education, health and other social services. The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) is delighted to provide data users, especially the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies, with district-level analytical reports based on the 2010 PHC data to facilitate their planning and decision-making. The District Analytical Report for the South Dayi District is one of the 216 district census reports aimed at making data available to planners and decision makers at the district level. In addition to presenting the district profile, the report discusses the social and economic dimensions of demographic variables and their implications for policy formulation, planning and interventions. The conclusions and recommendations drawn from the district report are expected to serve as a basis for improving the quality of life of Ghanaians through evidence- based decision-making, monitoring and evaluation of developmental goals and intervention programmes. -
City Governance and Poverty: the Case of Kumasi
KUMASI City governance and poverty: the case of Kumasi Nick Devas and David Korboe Nick Devas is a senior SUMMARY: This paper discusses the factors that influence the scale and nature lecturer in the International of poverty in Kumasi, with a special focus on the role of city government and other Development Department of the School of Public governmental bodies. It reviews critically the impact of city government’s policies Policy, University of Birm- on the livelihoods of poorer groups and their access to essential services, and notes ingham, specializing in the limited impact of democratization and decentralization on improving the urban development, urban governance, public finance performance of government agencies, particularly in relation to the urban poor. It and local government also discusses what factors have helped to limit the scale and extent of poverty, finance. He is coordinating including the role of traditional land allocation systems, donor involvement and the DFID-ESCOR funded supportive ethnic networks. research project on urban governance, partnerships and poverty. I. INTRODUCTION(1) Address: IDD, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham KUMASI, GHANA’S SECOND city, has a long and proud history as the B15 2TT, UK; e-mail: centre of the Asante kingdom.(2) Officially, Kumasi has a population of [email protected] around 700,000 but most estimates put the population at just over one David Korboe’s work is million.(3) Kumasi is often regarded as the commercial capital of Ghana, concerned with poverty and with its Keteja market rivalling Onitsha in Nigeria as West Africa’s largest social deprivation. -
Analysis and Evaluation of Current Post-Harvest
RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR EFFICIENT FOOD PROCESSING TO IMPROVE RURAL LIVELIHOODS (RE4FOOD) PROJECT REPORT ON ENERGY INPUT FOR MAIZE FOOD PRODUCTION ALONG THE VALUE CHAIN IN GHANA: CASE STUDY OF EJURA- SEKYEREDUMASI MUNICIPALITY NOVEMBER, 2016 Table of Contents1. ............................................................................................................... SUMMARY 4 2. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................... 5 3. MAIZE PRODUCTION IN GHANA ............................................................................................... 5 3.1 Socio-economic Impacts of Maize .............................................................................................. 7 3.3 Land Preparation ........................................................................................................................ 8 3.4 Fertilizer Use ............................................................................................................................... 8 3.5 Temperature requirements ........................................................................................................ 9 3.6 Rainfall requirements ................................................................................................................. 9 3.7 Planting operation ....................................................................................................................... 9 3.8 Weeding .................................................................................................................................... -
Ghana Poverty Mapping Report
ii Copyright © 2015 Ghana Statistical Service iii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Ghana Statistical Service wishes to acknowledge the contribution of the Government of Ghana, the UK Department for International Development (UK-DFID) and the World Bank through the provision of both technical and financial support towards the successful implementation of the Poverty Mapping Project using the Small Area Estimation Method. The Service also acknowledges the invaluable contributions of Dhiraj Sharma, Vasco Molini and Nobuo Yoshida (all consultants from the World Bank), Baah Wadieh, Anthony Amuzu, Sylvester Gyamfi, Abena Osei-Akoto, Jacqueline Anum, Samilia Mintah, Yaw Misefa, Appiah Kusi-Boateng, Anthony Krakah, Rosalind Quartey, Francis Bright Mensah, Omar Seidu, Ernest Enyan, Augusta Okantey and Hanna Frempong Konadu, all of the Statistical Service who worked tirelessly with the consultants to produce this report under the overall guidance and supervision of Dr. Philomena Nyarko, the Government Statistician. Dr. Philomena Nyarko Government Statistician iv TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................. iv LIST OF TABLES ....................................................................................................................... vi LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................................................... vii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................ -
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. -
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Published by Authority No. 52 FRIDAY, 29th DECEMBER 2000 > CONTENTS Page Notice of Publication of Official Bulletin 388 The National Weekly Lotto Results 388 Licence for the Celebration of Marriages—Public Place of Worship (Rtf Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Jasikan.) 388 Licence for the Celebration of Marriages—Public Place of Worship (Ref Christ Baptist Church, Suame-Kumasi) 388 ( Licence lor the Celebration of Marriages — Public Place of Worship (Rtf Revival Charismatic Centre, Kumasi) 388 Licence for the Celebration of Marriages-— Public Place of Worship (Ref. Ebenezer Methodist Church, Gomoa Nyanyano 389 Notice of Publication of List of Provisional Registered Veterinary Surgeons .. 389 390 Notice of Change of Names .. .> GHANA GAZETTE- 29m DECEMBER. 2000 38S NOTICE OF PUBLICATION OF OFFICIAL BULLETIN COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL No. .0 is published today, price: eS.000 Summary of Contents General 212 Notice of Sale of Overtime Goods—Port of Tema NATIONAL WEEKLY LOTTO RESULTS following numbers were drawn in successive order: 53 -40- 15 - 30 - 86 Col. MARTIN GBKPI Director of National Lotteries PUBLIC PLACE OF WORSHIP LICENCE FOR THE CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGES » Under the provision of section 8, subsection (1) of the Marriages Ordinance (Cap. 127) as amended, I, Steve Sclormcy, Director. Office of the Volta Regional Co-ordinating Council, do hereby license the following public place of worship for the celebration of Marriages! Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana, P.O. Box 98 Jasikan. Given under my hand at the office of ihe Volta Regional Co-ordinating Council, this 18th day of October. 2000. STEVE SELORMEY v Director ____________ __ for: Regional Co-ord. -
Geometry and Genesis of the Giant Obuasi Gold Deposit, Ghana
Geometry and genesis of the giant Obuasi gold deposit, Ghana Denis Fougerouse, BSc, MSc This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Centre for Exploration Targeting School of Earth and Environment The University of Western Australia July 2015 Supervisors: Dr Steven Micklethwaite Dr Stanislav Ulrich Dr John M Miller Professor T Campbell McCuaig ii "It never gets easier, you just go faster" Gregory James LeMond iv Abstract Abstract The supergiant Obuasi gold deposit is the largest deposit hosted in the Paleoproterozoic Birimian terranes of West Africa (62 Moz, cumulative past production and resources). The deposit is hosted in Kumasi Group sedimentary rocks composed of carbonaceous phyllites, slates, psammites, and volcaniclastic rocks intruded by different generations of felsic dykes and granites. In this study, the deformation history of the Obuasi district was re-evaluated and a three stage sequence defined based on observations from the regional to microscopic scale. The D1Ob stage is weakly recorded in the sedimentary rocks as a layer-parallel fabric. The D2Ob event is the main deformation stage and corresponds to a NW-SE shortening, involving tight to isoclinal folding, a pervasive subvertical S2Ob cleavage striking NE, as well as intense sub-horizontal stretching. Finally, a N-S shortening event (D3Ob) formed an ENE-striking, variably dipping S3Ob crenulation cleavage. Three ore bodies characteristic of the three main parallel mineralised trends were studied in details: the Anyankyerem in the Binsere trend; the Sibi deposit in the Gyabunsu trend, and the Obuasi deposit in the main trend. In the Obuasi deposit, two distinct styles of gold mineralisation occur; (1) gold-bearing sulphides, dominantly arsenopyrite, disseminated in metasedimentary rocks and (2) native gold hosted in quartz veins up to 25 m wide. -
Political Economic Origins of Sekondi‑Takoradi, West Africa's New Oil City
121 UDC: 711.4:711.75+711.453.4(667) DOI: 10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2012-23-02-005 Franklin OBENG-ODOOM Political economic origins of Sekondi‑Takoradi, West Africa’s new oil city The origins, growth and trajectory of Sekondi‑Takoradi, ure in national and international circles has a historical West Africa’s newest oil city, are considered by using an parallel in the 1920s when, as now, it captured national, “institutional‑analytical” method of economic history. regional and international attention. The evidence sug‑ Particular attention is given to the role of ports, harbours gests that contemporary narratives that strike a determin‑ and railways, and how they evolved and interacted with ist relationship between resource boom and social doom political economic institutions in the last 100 years. This need to be reconsidered. omnibus historical analysis suggests that West Africa’s newest oil city has come full circle. Its contemporary stat‑ Key words: ports, railways, oil, Ghana, Africa Urbani izziv, volume 23, no. 2, 2012 uiiziv-23-2_01.indd 121 26.11.2012 20:26:20 122 F. OBENG-ODOOM 1 Introduction city began its life, grew and rose to fame through economic and political successes. Studies of the city that look at oil (see, e.g., Boohene & Peprah, 2011; Yalley & Ofori‑Darko, 2012; Sekondi‑Takoradi is West Africa’s newest oil city. It is a twin Obeng‑Odoom, 2012a, 2012b) have not been historical. Thus, city in Ghana. Black gold was discovered off its shores in 2007. this paper takes a step in that direction. It looks at the role of By 2010, oil in commercial quantities was flowing in the city political and economic institutions in the origins and trajec‑ and, since 2011, oil has been leaving its shores in pursuit of in‑ tory of Sekondi‑Takoradi in the last 100 years, and it examines ternational currency. -
Characteristics and Control of a New Basidiomycetous Root Rot of Cassava (Mannihot Esculents) in Ghana
Proceedings of the 13th ISTRC Symposium, 2007 pp. 307 - 311 Characteristics and control of a new basidiomycetous root rot of cassava (Mannihot esculents) in Ghana Moses E.1, Akrofi S.2 and Mensah G.A.1 1CSIR-Crops Research Institute, P.O. Box 3785, Kumasi, Ghana 2Plant Genetic Resource Centre, Bunsu ER, Ghana Abstract. Cassava (Manihot esculenta) is than 500 million people in the developing one of the most important food crops in the world (Lozano, 1986; Farquet and Fargette, tropical world. Diseases such as African 1990; Thresh et al., 1997). Diseases such as cassava mosaic virus (ACMV), cassava African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV), bacterial blight (CBB) and cassava cassava bacterial blight (CBB) and cassava anthracnose (CAD) constitute a major anthracnose (CAD) constitute a major constraint to cassava production in parts of constraint to cassava production in parts of sub-saharan Africa. A mushroom type of sub-saharan Africa where the crop is fungus previously known to be parasitic on cultivated. ACMV alone potentially causes forest tree species has in recent years been yield losses of about 50% in susceptible found attacking cassava and causing high cultivars (Farquet and Fargette, 1990; Lozano yield losses in some of the major cassava and Nolt, 1989). Farmers in most parts of growing districts in Ghana. Surveys have Africa do very little or practically nothing to established presence of the disease in the control diseases of cassava and are often Volta, Central and Ashanti regions of the satisfied with the reduced yields they obtain country. Major symptoms of the disease from susceptible varieties they cultivate include wilting and defoliation and eventually (Thresh et al., 1994). -
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GHANA gazette pi REPUBLIC OF GHANA of Published by Authority No. 81 2012 CONTENTS Page Notice of Publication of an Official Bulletin 2176 2176 Licence for the Celebration of Marriages—Public Place of Worship (Ref. Church of Pentecost, Akaporiso Assembly, Obuasi) 2176 Licence for the Celebration of Marriages—Public Place of Worship (Ref God’s Church of Peace) .. 2176 Licence for the Celebration of Marriages—Public Place of Worship (Ref Anointed Revival Ministry Tantra HrH, Accra) 2177 Appointment of Marriage Officers (House of Faith Ministries, Obuasi) 2177 Appointment of Marriage Officers (Born Again Believers’ Ministry, Obuasi, Ghana) 2177 Appointment of a Marriage Officer (Restoration Community Chapel of Come Back Ministries, Accra) 2177 2178 I Gazetting of Returns on Assets and Liabilities of Bank of Ghana as at 15th October, 2012 I 2179 Change of Names 2185 Change of Dates of Birth 2186 Change of Name of a Church 1 V \ I NOVEMBER ?on APPOINTMENT OF MARRIAGE 2177 -Under the provisions of section 38 of the Marriages Act, 1884 OFFICERS Instrument, 1971 (L.I. 707), the following Minist - 1985 (Cap. 127) and the Ministers Functions for House of Faith Ministries, Obuasi. crs °f Religion are hereby appointed as Marriage Officers 1 Reverend Samuel Kwamc Antwi 2. Reverend Emmanuel Asantc 14. Reverend Kennedy Amponsah Ayim 3. Reverend Michael Jackson Nkansah 15. Reverend Daniel Appiah Aboroso 4. Reverend Alexander Ohcne Amoah 16. Reverend Baffour Asare-Bediako 5. Reverend Isaac Agycn 17. Reverend Augustine Addai 6. Reverend Jonathan Kudjordji 18. Reverend Michael Frimpong 7. Reverend Lawrence Larry-Lawal 19. Reverend Samuel Osei Kwarteng S.