Search

Searching in Ghana

Showing 641-650 of 979 results

Pages

• Document

  Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps): Case Studies in Education

  Cambridge Education Consultants, 2000

  This study was aimed to produce practical guidelines on good practice in mainstreaming gender into the planning and implementation of education SWAps. SWAps are a move away from project-focused approaches in educational development and the 'islands of excellence' that these entail, towards the provision of technical assistance within a coherent sector policy.
• Document

  Exploring the linkages between children’s independent migration and education: evidence from Ghana

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2005

  This paper explores the linkages between children’s independent migration and education, both formal and non-formal, who have moved from rural, farming households in northern Ghana to rural and urban households in central and southern Ghana.
• Document

  Cost recovery in Ghana

  Health Policy and Planning, 1998

  This Health Policy and Planning paper investigates the impact on health care seeking behaviour of the “cost-sharing” policies introduced in Ghana between 1985 and 1992, drawing on focus group discussions and in-depth interviews. Under these policies, patients were asked to pay partly for consultations and diagnostic procedures, and fully for drugs supplied.
• Document

  People's law

  Policy Power tools, 2005

  This tool, based on experience in the forestry sector in Ghana, helps to empower people to challenge the assumption that legal change is beyond their means.
• Document

  Nature: poor people's wealth, the importance of natural resources in poverty eradication

  Friends of the Earth International, 2005

  This publication by Friends of the Earth International describes the direct link between environmental degradation and rural poverty. The critical importance of natural resources for rural communities is illustrated in this overview article, with clear examples of the resource plights of impoverished communities.
• Document

  A leadership strategy for reducing hunger and malnutrition in Africa: the agriculture-nutrition advantage

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2005

  This paper reviews the aspects and outcomes of the Agriculture- Nutrition Advantage project implemented in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda, and the United States.
• Document

  The role of social capital in street trading

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Rapid urbanisation in sub-Saharan African cities is associated with migration and the growth of the informal economy, including street trade. Traders draw on and manipulate social relations to enhance their livelihoods. For formalisation policies to be effective, their impact on traders’ social relations must be taken into account.
• Document

  Infrastructure is the key to poverty reduction in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  African infrastructure development lags behind other regions. The lack of rural roads, telecommunications, electrification and water services is weakening poverty reduction efforts. Poor infrastructure directly affects poverty and requires urgent attention.
• Document

  Pro-poor growth in the 1990s: lessons and insights from 14 countries

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper is based on a study designed to better understand the options for policymakers to increase the impact of growth on poverty reduction and how they vary depending on policies and country conditions.
• Document

  Pictures speak louder than words: supporting learning for African women farmers

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  Many women in rural Africa are not only mothers and housekeepers, but farmers and foresters. These women are largely illiterate and cannot access most forestry reference materials. However, they can learn farming techniques from picture book manuals.

Pages