Ronald Adamtey

Ronald Adamtey
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | KNUST · Department of Planning

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Ronald Adamtey currently works at the Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology. Ronald does research in Social Stratification, Social Policy and Qualitative Social Research. Their current project is 'The impact of the District Assembly Common Fund allocation to people with Disability at the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembly level; a comparative study of Four Districts in Ghana'.

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The potential benefits of fiscal decentralization policies for the promotion of healthcare delivery remain highly debated among scholars. This paper aims to investigate the long-and short-term effects of financial transfers from District Assemblies (DAs) on improving primary healthcare in the districts of Ghana. In the financial transfer distributi...
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Decommissioning of offshore petroleum installations is innately risky and adversely affects the livelihoods of fishing communities’ dependent on access to the marine resources. However, it remains unclear how Ghana’s legislative framework addresses the protection of local livelihoods during the decommissioning of its first offshore installation, th...
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Background In low-and middle-income countries, migrants are confronted with health needs which affect the promotion of their well-being and healthy lives. However, not much is known about the health needs of migrant female head porters (Kayayei) in Ghana. This study assesses the health needs of migrant female head porters in the Greater Kumasi Metr...
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Rural Ghana has potential for widespread use of biogas energy by households, which would contribute to the achievement of UN's Sustainable Development Goal 7 (affordable and clean energy). However, knowledge of households' willingness to adopt it is still scanty. Therefore, this paper examines socioeconomic factors that may influence the willingnes...
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Background In low-and middle-income countries, migrants are confronted with several healthcare needs which affects the promotion of well-being and healthy lives. However, not much is known about the healthcare needs of migrant female head porters (Kayayei) in Ghana. This study assesses the healthcare needs of migrant female head porters in Greater...
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There is mixed evidence that low levels of productivity at the local government level are not common with organizations with strong cultures as these are less prone to any externalities. The paper investigated the link between organizational culture and employee productivity from the perspectives of employees of the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan As...
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Fire disasters are common in unplanned areas of African cities. In urban Ghana, recent increases in fire outbreaks from gas and petrol stations with devastating effects on adjoining land uses raise questions about the effectiveness of the current zoning regulations and land-use planning regimes. Using Tamale Metropolis, a fast growing city in north...
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For most cities in the developing world, rapid and uncontrolled expansion at their fringes is a regular feature. In many cases these rapidly growing peri-urban areas are carved out as new local government units to function separately from the expanding city. Hence, the hitherto agricultural areas are transformed into residential and other urban use...
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Both local and foreign volunteers have been involved in community development activities in Ghana. However, there is a dearth of research on the perceived and real impacts of volunteers in delivering services, reasons for volunteering, the potential of volunteering to supplement the human and financial resources of local governments in Ghana, and t...
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This study examines the determinants of place attachment among flood victims in the two low-income communities of Aboabo and Asawase in Kumasi, Ghana. It draws on empirical evidences from 203 households and key informants to explore the enduring communal mobilisation and social capital exhibited by victims during and after floods. The study reveals...
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Access to water is a matter of daily survival for people around the world. Water is crucial for human survival and also central to the development of every nation. The recent literature on world water suggests that the water crisis being experienced is related to governance and not a real crisis of scarcity and stress. This paper aims at identifyin...
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The article looks at how District Assemblies can work with Faith-Based Organizations in basic service delivery to deepen Ghana's decentralization reform agenda
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In the last 4 decades, decentralised governance has been adopted and popularised, in varied shapes and forms, within the sub-Saharan African region. The object was to generate greater participation in local and national development, through the creation of well-resourced local government units. These local government units are to mobilise financial...
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Over the past three decades, various countries and stakeholders have aimed at having cities that can better handle natural and human-made disasters, protect human life, absorb the impact of economic, environmental and social hazards and promote well-being, inclusive and sustainable growth. This paper investigates how informal ties result in in-fill...
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Article History Keywords Decentralisation Development Local government Faith-based organisations Financial resources Ghana. Given the weak internal revenue mobilisation capacity of Local Governments in many developing countries, this paper explores the role of Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) in filling resource gaps of the Keta Municipal Assembly...
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Accra, the capital of Ghana, is a fast-growing African city. Its growth has brought in its wake an ever-increasing demand for land, which has in turn led to the emergence of a land market that is increasingly supplanting the age-old customary land tenure system. The customary land tenure system is based on communal, rather than individual ownership...
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The recent claims that migration can improve the well-being of migrants and their dependents back home has mainly focused on international migration to destinations that are considered developed. Few studies have focused on internal migration and its effects on migrants' well-being. Besides, whether migrations to areas that are considered not devel...
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This study examined the governance of interests of Fulani cattle herdsmen and peasant farmers in land, water and pastures of the Asante Akim North District of Ghana. Using stakeholder interviews with key officers of the Asante Akim North District Assembly (AANDA), senior officers of District Police Service, key persons in the Traditional Council, c...
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Existing literature on Ghana’s performance on the decentralized planning system hardly explores the role of individual rationality and organizational rationality in explaining performance on development efforts. This article examines whether the proposition of the New Institutional Economics (NIE) that decisions that individuals make constitute tra...
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This paper explores the benefits of planning a reliable and effective ambulance and emergency service towards healthcare delivery at the District level in Ghana. It addresses the question of what should be the focus of such planning. A case study research design was adopted by employing detailed qualitative interviews with health staff, operators o...
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In an effort to bring governance to the doorstep of the people, promote participation in development, provide the citizenry with better conditions of living through better service delivery at the local level, many countries decentralize power and resources to the lower levels through the creation of new districts. Although this is laudable, existin...
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The prospects that multi-stakeholder platforms present to development processes have been the main reason why such platforms have continued to be used. While concerns about the shortcomings of multi-stakeholder platforms have been raised in recent times, how these platforms actually function is barely explored. The paper seeks to examine two assump...
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In recent times, a growing body of research has drawn attention to the changing interface and interdependence between urban and rural spaces in Africa. This includes studies on physical, environmental, socio-demographic, economic and other transformations in the peri-urban zone. However, little is known about how residents of peri-urban communities...
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There is no consensus among scholars as to whether competitive partisan elections at Ghana’s district assembly level can help deepen the country’s decentralization system. It remains unclear whether a non-partisan district Assembly can work in Ghana. To address this issue, extensive qualitative interviews were conducted with local government office...
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Conventional literature on land degradation has largely focused on factors such as logging, farming, mining and construction to explain the causes of this phenomenon, paying little attention to what motivates the decisions behind these factors particularly in poor countries. One of the factors that is least explored but promises to shed light on ou...
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There has been increasing debate on whether traditional healers actually matter in planning for healthcare delivery and how their services can be effectively integrated into planning for formal health delivery systems. Whilst many have raised issues of standardization and efficacy against traditional healing, others have acclaimed its efficacy and...
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The fiscal decentralization within the broader frame of decentralization in Ghana has been given focused. This aspect of decentralization has not been clearly decentralized in the country and is considered as unfinished business. Districts and communities are constrained in the implementation of their development activities because of vertical infl...

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