ABSTRACTThe effectiveness in complying with hygienic practices such as handwashing with soap hinges on knowledge or awareness through sensitisation. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, as part of measures to promote hygiene, designed and implemented a handwashing with soap sensitisation experiment and this study examined associated post-sensitisation drivers. The study finds personal (gender, education, age, occupation), Household (Household Size)...Read More

Presenter: Dr George Lutterodt ABSTRACT This work is one of UPGro’s consortium projects with research funding from UKAid. The work explores the use of transition management (Social Science and Sustainability tool) in the management of groundwater in poor urban areas and slums in SSA. The work was conducted in 3 African countries. In Ghana, the...Read More

By: Dr. Gibrilla Abass.Abstract Ghana is the largest gold producer in West Africa and second in Africa. It is dominated by two main sectors namely, the large scale mining sector (LSM) and small-scale/artisanal small-scale mining (SSM/ASM). Within the small-scale gold mining sector is “galamsey”, a local term used in Ghana for illegal or unregulated gold...Read More