Augustine Akuoko-Asibey’s research while affiliated with University of Alberta and other places

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Assessing hygiene and health related improvements of a rural water supply and sanitation programme in northern Ghana
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October 2009

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6 Citations

Natural Resources Forum

Augustine Akuoko-Asibey

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Harry J. McPherson

A case control study was carried out to assess hygiene and health related improvements of the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Programme in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Hygienic improvements were measured in terms of sources of water collection and storage arrangements, waste disposal, hand washing, food storage arrangements, and defecation and practices associated with faeces. The perception of women on the mode of transmission and treatment of selected water and sanitation related diseases were the criteria used to assess health related improvements. Comparison of the results in the programme and non-programme communities indicates that the water and sanitation programme has achieved some degree of success in the areas of water use and water and food storage for the beneficiaries. However, little has been accomplished in changing people's attitude towards the disposal of household, animal and human waste. In addition, the programme has so far been minimally effective in enhancing women's knowledge about the transmission and treatment of water and sanitation related diseases.


Tests automatisés de la superficie des terres pour le recensement de 2001: résultats préliminaires obtenus en utilisant les fichiers numériques cartographiques de 1996
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January 1998

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Avant le recensement de 2001, la Division de la géographie calculait la superficie des terres manuellement à l’aide d’un planimètre. Cette méthode manuelle était nécessaire parce que la division n’avait pas de base de données numérique nationale pour appuyer une méthode automatisée. Le calcul manuel de la superficie des terres était un procédé utilisateur de main d’oeuvre, qui exigeait beaucoup de temps, était coûteux et apte à comporter des erreurs. La mise en place d’une base numérique nationale prévue pour le recensement de 2001 (qui sera appelée la Base géographique nationale ou BGN) transforme le calcul automatisé de la superficie des terres en un processus SIG simple. Les objectifs de ce document sont de démontrer les effets de l’agrégation des données et de diverses projections cartographiques sur la superficie des terres. Le test s’effectue en deux étapes. La première étape est effectuée à partir des Fichiers numériques cartographiques de 1996 (FNC) et la seconde étape utilisera la BGN. Bien que les FNC ne soient pas idéaux pour tester la superficie des terres, ces deux étapes n’en demeurent pas moins nécessaires puisque la BGN ne sera pas complétée avant l’automne 1998. Le présent rapport offre les résultats de la première étape obtenus en utilisant les FNC de 1996. Les résultats révèlent que les effets de l’agrégation des données sont minimes. Par conséquent, la superficie des terres peut être stockée au niveau des îlots de recensement et ensuite agrégée à des niveaux d’entités géographiques supérieures sans ramification sérieuse pour le recensement de 2001. Les résultats indiquent aussi qu’une projection équivalente, particulièrement la projection conique équivalente d’Albers, est plus appropriée pour calculer la superficie des terres.

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Tests automatisés de la superficie des terres pour le recensement de 2001: résultats préliminaires obtenus en utilisant les fichiers numériques cartographiques de 1996

January 1998

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Avant le recensement de 2001, la Division de la géographie calculait la superficie des terres manuellement à l’aide d’un planimètre. Cette méthode manuelle était nécessaire parce que la division n’avait pas de base de données numérique nationale pour appuyer une méthode automatisée. Le calcul manuel de la superficie des terres était un procédé utilisateur de main d’oeuvre, qui exigeait beaucoup de temps, était coûteux et apte à comporter des erreurs. La mise en place d’une base numérique nationale prévue pour le recensement de 2001 (qui sera appelée la Base géographique nationale ou BGN) transforme le calcul automatisé de la superficie des terres en un processus SIG simple. Les objectifs de ce document sont de démontrer les effets de l’agrégation des données et de diverses projections cartographiques sur la superficie des terres. Le test s’effectue en deux étapes. La première étape est effectuée à partir des Fichiers numériques cartographiques de 1996 (FNC) et la seconde étape utilisera la BGN. Bien que les FNC ne soient pas idéaux pour tester la superficie des terres, ces deux étapes n’en demeurent pas moins nécessaires puisque la BGN ne sera pas complétée avant l’automne 1998. Le présent rapport offre les résultats de la première étape obtenus en utilisant les FNC de 1996. Les résultats révèlent que les effets de l’agrégation des données sont minimes. Par conséquent, la superficie des terres peut être stockée au niveau des îlots de recensement et ensuite agrégée à des niveaux d’entités géographiques supérieures sans ramification sérieuse pour le recensement de 2001. Les résultats indiquent aussi qu’une projection équivalente, particulièrement la projection conique équivalente d’Albers, est plus appropriée pour calculer la superficie des terres.


Table 1 . Comparison of Provincial Land Areas and Component EAs
Table 6 . Provincial Land Areas Published by Natural Resources Canada
Automated Land Area Tests for the 2001 Census: Preliminary Results Using the 1996 Digital Cartographic Files

January 1998

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Prior to the 2001 Census, the Geography Division manually calculated land area using a planimeter. The manual approach was necessary since the division did not have a national digital database to support an automated method. The manual land area calculation was a labour intensive process -- as well as very time consuming, expensive and very prone to error. With the anticipation of having a national digital base for the 2001 Census (to be called the National Geographic Base or NGB), the automated land area calculation becomes a simple GIS process. The objectives of this paper are to show the effects of data aggregation and different map projections on automated land area calculation. The testing is a two-staged process; the first stage uses the 1996 Digital Cartographic Files (DCFs) and the second stage will use the NGB. Although the DCFs are not ideal for testing land area, this two-staged approach is necessary since the NGB will not be completed until Autumn 1998. This report presents results on the first stage using the 1996 DCFs. The results reveal that the effects of data aggregation are minimal; thus land area can be stored at the census block level and then aggregated to higher level geographic entities without any serious ramifications for the 2001 Census. The results also indicate that an equal-area projection, specifically the Albers Equal-Area Conic projection, is more appropriate for calculating land area.


Views of selected government officials on the impact of rural water supply program in Ghana

February 1997

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3 Citations

Evaluation and Program Planning

The United States Agency for International Development has in recent years adopted a simple, rapid, low-cost and effective method in evaluating rural water supply and sanitation programs in the developing world. Included in this method is the solicitation of information from government officials of the country involved in the program. In most cases, the information on the impact of the program is sought from bureaucrats at the national ministerial level, and are not succinctly reported. This article examines the awareness, role(s) and views of selected government officials associated with rural development on the impacts of a rural water supply program in Ghana. The views of the bureaucrats were in most cases compared with personal observations and individual interviews conducted with 126 women in randomly selected rural communities. The results of the study indicate that bureaucrats at the national ministerial level have little or no knowledge on the impact of the program on the intended beneficiaries, despite the fact that they were involved in the program earlier than their regional and district level counterparts.


A summative evaluation of a rural water supply programme in Ghana

July 1996

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6 Citations

Applied Geography

Summative evaluations of natural resource programmes and projects are of considerable value when future programmes are being planned and implemented. A case-control study design was adopted to evaluate a rural water supply programme in a developing region in Ghana. The study focused on impacts of issues related to programme objectives. Primary data were collected by means of formal and informal interviews. The results showed that women in the programme communities have not utilized excess waste water effectively in productive economic activities to supplement their incomes. The results also indicate that radio was the most effective medium in delivering health and hygiene education messages. Water user committees appointed by programme managers have been less effective in the performance of their duties than community water organizers, who were selected by the communities.


The impacts of climatic variables on seasonal water consumption in Calgary, Alberta

January 1993

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Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques

The study began by examining the effects of climatic variables on weekly water consumption per capita in the City of Calgary, Alberta. It was revealed that weekly water consumption per capita remains fairly steady in the city when mean maximum weekly temperatures are below 15 °C, and tend to increase with increasing temperatures, especially when temperatures are above 15 °C. In addition, a statistical model for predicting spring-summer water use for the city has been developed and verified, with the use of Stepwise Regression Analysis. Baseline data for the model were obtained for the period May-August, 1982–1985. The model includes the number of days in the week with measurable precipitation, mean maximum weekly temperature and degree-heating days above 16 °C. It was verified with actual water use data from May-August, 1986–1989.



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... The potential effect of climate change on future water demand has often been quantified on the basis of empirical analyses of historical sensitivity of demand to changes in meteorological variables, typically air temperature and precipitation, integrated over time intervals of a day to months. Mostly, studies revealed a positive relationship of demand with temperature and/or an inverse relationship to precipitation [8][9][10][11][12][13]. Temperature affected demand more strongly in some systems [13][14][15] while precipitation was the larger factor in others [10,16,17]. ...

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How tourists ‘escaping the heat’ may drive future increases in municipal water demand in Oregon coastal communities
The impacts of climatic variables on seasonal water consumption in Calgary, Alberta
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  • January 1993

Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques

... Transportation plays an important role for the sustainability of the society in order to have a meaningful life of the people [4]. In Canada, transportation sector contributed about 4.2% of the country's GDP (Growth Domestic Products) in 2005 [5]. This sector has four major modes namely road, air, rail, and marine [6] . ...

An Analysis of the Transportation Industry in 2005
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... This practice is common in Ghana and most affected are the major business areas in most cities where solid wastes are generated in large quantities and piled up on daily basis. Some writers attribute the urban sanitation problems in developing countries to demographic and sociological factors including rapid urbanization [3,4,9,19,20,21,22], poverty [3,6,7,23,24], and cultural values [25,26,27]. Politically, the sanitation problem has been attributed to negligence on the part of states and governmental institutions [7,28,29]. ...

Assessing hygiene and health related improvements of a rural water supply and sanitation programme in northern Ghana
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  • October 2009

Natural Resources Forum

... In Mali, a country in the Sahel, problems of water scarcity have become even more severe since the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. A lack of access to water affects agricultural productivity, food security and people's livelihoods (Akuoko-Asibey, 1997). At the village level, water scarcity has triggered local "water wars" between villages, and conflicts among community members over competing priorities for water (Ostrom, 1990). ...

Views of selected government officials on the impact of rural water supply program in Ghana
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  • February 1997

Evaluation and Program Planning

... Further, in many cases, WASH might be divided among many different government sectors [69,77]. While this may allow governments to tap into some important assets (e.g., health sector could provide software through hygiene education and behavior change [77]), dividing WASH among multiple sectors also causes a challenge in promoting a combined and coordinated effort [69,78]. In order to address some of these barriers, it is important to encourage and promote WASH objectives in government planning and budgeting [69]. ...

Socio-economic impact of a rural water supply programme in the upper east region of Ghana /
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