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Customary land delivery practices in African urban areas
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004Urban poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, often excluded from formal systems of land management, increasingly obtain shelter through other means. Informal systems to deliver land in cities borrow features from rural customs.DocumentThe effect of community nurses and health volunteers on child mortality: the Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project
Population Council, USA, 2005This working paper, published by the Population Council, examines the impact on child mortality of two strategies for delivering primary health care in rural Ghana. The first strategy involved using village-based community nurses to deliver services, while the second centred around community involvement and training of a local health volunteer.DocumentFilling the gaps: introducing substitute health workers in Africa
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Massive shortages in trained health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa have led to an examination of substitute health workers as an immediate response to the workforce crisis.For many countries these substitute health workers (SHWs) are not new. They already play various minor roles in health services, especially in rural and deprived areas.DocumentStopping the migration of Ghana's health workers
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005Ghana's health sector has lost many health care workers, including those migrating to other countries. Strategies aimed at keeping personnel have had varied results.DocumentAssessing care: progress towards the measurement of selected childcare and feeding practices, and implications for programs
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2002This report, published by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, discusses measurement of childcare and feeding practices, drawing on insights from a study conducted in Ghana in 1997.DocumentHow many lives could be saved if malaria were eliminated from a hyper-endemic area of northern Ghana?
Population Council, USA, 2005This paper from the Population Council examines the impact of deaths from malaria on overall mortality in an area classified as hyper-endemic (having a very high rate of malaria infection within its population).DocumentMeeting of minds: youth sexual health programme leaders tackle stigma and discrimination
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005An international knowledge synthesis meeting under the UK Department for International Development's Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme brought together programme leaders and researchers from 11 resource-poor countries to discuss stigma, discrimination and human rights in relation to young people’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH).DocumentReaction function of the bank of Ghana: a dynamic approach
University of Cape Coast, Ghana, 2002The economy of Ghana is highly dependent on exports as well as imports. It has been observed that the Bank of Ghana has succeeded in reducing the gap between official and parallel exchange rates and partially succeeded in correcting the over/under valuation of the nominal exchange rate by implementing various exchange rate regimesThe present paper looks at the bank of Ghana’s reaction functions.DocumentGender Violence in Schools: Ghana
University of Sussex, UK, 2004What is meant by gender violence in schools? What is the situation in Ghana? This is one of five newsletters tackling the issue of gender violence in schools in Africa. They are based on a three-country study of the abuse of girls in Ghana, Malawi and Zimbabwe.