1st Edition
Sustainable Community Development in Ghana
This book explores sustainable community development in Ghana post Covid-19, highlighting examples of how individuals facing extreme challenges have adapted to their changing circumstances.
Through the voices of African researchers, it explores the different responses that local, subnational, and national stakeholders and communities initiated to preserve the gains made in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana during the global pandemic. The collection considers how policy makers are tackling the pressing issues of sustainability, climate change and its effects on Africa and Ghana in particular, and multi stakeholder policy responses to building communities in a post Covid-19 world. The case studies show how communities are interacting to ensure sustainable community development and learning in the global south, and the role that education and learning, both formal and informal, play in strengthening livelihoods, choices and opportunities in African communities.
An assessment of multi stakeholder policy responses to building communities in Ghana, this book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of Education, Education Management, Sociology, Economics and African Studies. It will also be of interest to policymakers and practitioners engaged in community development programmes and activities and the development of associated policies.
Introduction
ISAAC K. BINEY, JOHN K. BOATENG, AND PAUL G. NIXON
PART 1: Community response to COVID-19 and the SDGs
1. Engendering sustainable communities during and post COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences from Ghana
ISAAC K. BINEY
2. Community response to COVID-19 pandemic and the future of global health: A model proposition for higher education partnership
Y. OWUSU-AGYEMAN
PART II: Education, COVID-19 and the SDGs
3. Community mobile teaching and learning applications during COVID-19: Experiences of religious groups in Ghanaian communities
JOHN K. BOATENG, JOYCE BOATENG, AND ERNEST DARKWA
4. Higher education institutions and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: The University of Ghana experience
ROBERT LAWRENCE. AFUTU-KOTEY AND LINDA TSEVI
5. Happiness in online communities: Service quality and students’ satisfaction in online education delivery in a Ghanaian University
HAYFORD M. AYERAKWA AND MICHAEL A. TAGOE
6. Critical assessment of non-formal education as a strategic tool for enhancing district assembly women’s participation in local governance in the Northern sector of Ghana
MOSES Y. NAMOOG
7. Closing the gap: Distance education to empowerment in Ghana through the self-determination theory
BOADI AGYEKUM, SAMUEL N. ESHUN AND MOSES K. ASAMOAH
8. E-Learning laws and principles quarantined by COVID-19: Emerging ‘un’ Sustainable practices of new e-learning in higher education
SIMON-PETER K. AHETO
9. Competencies and capabilities of local and traditional leaders in Ghana: Examining the nexus of continuing education for community development
ANDREWS J. DOTSEY
PART III: Environmental sustainability and the SDGs
10. Climate change knowledge, attitudes and adaptation among households in three major agro-ecological zones in Ghana: Implications for climate education and sustainable development
PHILIP P. KWESI MANTEY, ROBERT L. AFUTU-KOTEY AND MICHAEL A. TAGOE
11. Plastic waste recycling in Ghana: Understanding sources and the value chain
STEPHEN K. BABSON AND PHILIP P. KWESI MANTEY
12. Climate change adaptation practices in two rural communities in Ghana
JOHN K. BOATENG
PART IV: Sustainable livelihoods, Aid and community development
13. Experiences of young vendors engaged in informal entrepreneurship during COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana
ISAAC K. BINEY
14. Impact of COVID-19 on sustainable livelihoods and community development through SDGs in Kenya
GILBERT NYAKUNDI OKEBIRO AND MWABA SYVANAH KARIMI
15. Intricacies of Foreign aid to Ghana
JOS WALENKAMP
Biography
Isaac K. Biney is an Associate Professor of Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
John K. Boateng is an Associate Professor of Development Education and Human Resource Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Paul G. Nixon is an Independent Researcher at The Hague, The Netherlands.
