1st Edition
Sustainable Community Development in Ghana
Introduction: Sustainable community development: Examining the Ghanaian situation
Isaac Kofi Biney, John Kwame Boateng, and Paul Gary Nixon
PART I Community response to COVID‑19 and the SDGs
1 Engendering sustainable communities during and post‑COVID‑19 pandemic: Experiences from Ghana
Isaac Kofi Biney
2 Community response to COVID‑19 pandemic and the future of global health: A model to support higher education partnership
Yaw Owusu‑Agyeman
PART II Education, COVID‑19 and the SDGs
3 Community mobile teaching and learning applications
during COVID‑19: Review of the experiences of some religious groups in Ghana
John Kwame 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 A 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 Yinkorah Namoog
7 Closing the gap: Distance education to empowerment of nursing students in Ghana through the self‑determination theory
Boadi Agyekum, Samuel Nuamah Eshun and Moses Kumi Asamoah
8 E‑learning laws and principles quarantined by COVID‑19: Emerging ‘un’sustainable practices of ‘new’ e‑learning laws in higher education
Simon‑Peter Kafui Aheto
9 Competencies and capabilities of local and traditional leaders in Ghana: Examining the nexus of continuing education for community development
Andrews Jack Dotsey
PART III Environmental sustainability and the SDGs
10 Climate change knowledge, attitudes and adaptation among households in three major agro‑ecological zones of Ghana: Implications for climate change education and sustainable development
Philip P. Kwesi Mantey, Robert L. Afutu‑Kotey, Michael A. TAGOE and Esther Attiogbe
11 Plastic waste recycling in Ghana: Understanding the sources and the value chain
Stephen Kofi Babson and Philip P. Kwasi Mantey
12 Climate change adaptation practices in two rural communities in Ghana
John Kwame 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 Kofi Biney
14 Impact of COVID‑19 on sustainable livelihoods and community development through SDGs in Kenya
Gilbert Nyakundi Okebiro and Mwabu Sylvanah Karimi
15 Intricacies of foreign aid to Ghana
Jos Walenkamp
Biography
Isaac Kofi Biney is an associate professor of Adult Education and Community Development at the University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
John Kwame Boateng is an associate professor of Development Education and Human Resource Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana.
Paul Gary Nixon is an independent researcher at The Hague, The Netherlands.
