City profile: Tamale, Ghana

Fuseini, Issahaka; Yaro, Joseph Awetori; Yiran, Gerald A. B.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2016.07.010

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“…This study was conducted in the Northern Region (NR) of Ghana, a country located in West Africa [13]. The NR is one of 16 administrative regions with a population of 1,905,628 and largely rural dispersed settlements [14,15]. According to estimates from 2016, Ghana poverty and inequality report, 50.4% of the NR population live in poverty, compared to the 5.6%-14.8% for the rest of Ghana, thus making the NR the highest poverty-trapped region in the country [16].…”

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“…The poverty profile of the region and long distances between settlements poses a challenge in healthcare delivery and health-seeking behaviour of patients [17]. This study took place in three public health facilities that offer both TB and DM care [15]. The names of these three facilities are withheld for privacy and confidentiality purposes.…”

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Barriers and facilitators to bidirectional screening of TB-DM in Ghana: Healthcare workers’ perspectives

Salifu

Hlongwana

2020

PLoS ONE

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Background The tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) co-epidemic continues to increase globally. Low-and middle-income countries bear the highest burden of co-epidemic, and Ghana is no exception. In 2011, the World Health Organisation (WHO) responded to this global challenge by launching a collaborative framework with a view to guide countries in implementing their DM and TB care, prevention and control plans. Subsequently, several countries, including Ghana, adopted this framework and began implementing bidirectional screening of TB and DM patients. Almost a decade later since the launch of the framework, the implementation of bidirectional screening in Ghana has not been subjected to empirical research. This study explored the barriers and facilitators to bidirectional screening through the lenses of the implementing healthcare workers. Methods This was an exploratory qualitative study conducted in three public health facilities offering both TB and DM services in Northern Ghana. In-depth interviews, document review and observations, were used to generate data. In total twenty-three healthcare workers (doctors, nurses, prescriber, health managers and TB task-shifting officers delivering care in TB and DM clinics) were interviewed, using semi-structured interview guides. The interview questions solicited information on the screening process, including knowledge of the collaborative framework, comorbidity, collaboration and workload. Results Six themes emerged from the analysis, of which two (Increase in staff capacity, and Institutionalisation of bidirectional screening) were facilitators, and four (Delays in screening, Fear and stigmatization of TB, Poor collaboration between TB and DM units, and Skewed funding for screening) were barriers.

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Barriers and facilitators to bidirectional screening of TB-DM in Ghana: Healthcare workers’ perspectives

Salifu

Hlongwana

2020

PLoS ONE

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“…Some move for social reasons such as marriage, joining family members who have already migrated, and in order to study in the well-respected secondary and tertiary institutions located in STMA. In many ways, this reflects trends seen in other major Ghanaian cities such as Accra (Gough et al 2015), Kumasi (Korah, Cobbinah, Nunbogu and Gyogluu 2016) and to a lesser extent Tamale (Fuseini, Yaro and Yiran 2017). In relation to STMA specifically, however, the consistent inflow of migrants is inextricably linked to the emergence of the oil and gas economy.…”

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Spatial and social transformations in a secondary city: the role of mobility in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana

Yankson

Gough

Amankwaa

2017

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography

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Existing research on urban Ghana mainly focuses on processes occurring within the country's major cities, thereby reproducing a trend within the social sciences to overlook the role of intermediate and secondary cities. This paper aims to address this shortcoming by exploring spatial and social transformations in Sekondi-Takoradi, one of Ghana's secondary cities and the metropolitan area serving the region's emerging rubber industries as well as the country's oil and gas economy. Using qualitative interviews conducted with residents in five of the city's neighbourhoods, and a modified version of Kaufmann's typology of mobility, we examine migration into Sekondi-Takoradi, residential mobility within the city, and the daily mobility of the city's residents. The paper highlights how these diverse forms of mobility interact with processes taking place both within and outside Sekondi-Takoradi, most notably influencing and being influenced by livelihood strategies. It is argued that the city and its hinterlands can best be envisaged as a mobile networked whole, rather than consisting of disconnected and compartmentalised locales. The paper thus contributes to broader debates on how mobility shapes urbanisation by providing new empirical data on events unfolding in Africa's secondary cities, and extends existing research by providing a counter narrative to literature that examines the city and its surrounding rural areas separately.

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“…Although there had been similar research works on the application of IATs by SMEs operators in other countries, there is no previous research in literature on the application of IATs by SMEs operators in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana. The Tamale Metropolis in recent time has been discovered to be the fastest growing economy in West Africa with the SME sector showing a rapid growth in terms of numbers (Fuseini et al, 2017). It is therefore worth conducting this research problem at the metropolis to help to early address any challenge that may impede investments successes.…”

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2020

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The small and medium enterprise (SME) sector deficiency in adherence to best operational practices has been discovered to be one of the major causes of investment failures and the dwindling growth in productivity of the sector. Among these best operational practices that the SME sector is asserted to be deficient in practice is investment appraisal to predict investment profitability and success. Nevertheless, there are divergent findings of existing research works on whether SME operators practice investment appraisals or not. This research therefore examined the application of the basic Investment Appraisal Techniques (IATs) by SME operators in the Tamale Metropolis. The descriptive and referential research design technique was used. The simple random sampling technique was also used to collect data from 400 SME operators with the use of structured questionnaires. The data gathered was analysed with the use of SPSS tool to perform multinomial regression and Chi-square Test (X 2) analysis. The research found that SME operators in the Tamale Metropolis had significant knowledge in the various basic IATs. There was also a significant application level of the IATs by the SME operators. Although the SME operators demonstrated significant knowledge and application level in the various IATs, it was discovered that they did not use the theoretical mathematical formulae of the IATs in appraising their investments. It was also discovered that operator's knowledge in an IAT had insignificant influence on its' application by the operator. The choice of the IATs by the SME operators was found to be significantly influenced by the SME Operator's gender, educational level and risk behaviour and the investment size and the business or industry type. However, regulation or legal requirement was found to have insignificant influence on the choice of IATs by the SME operators.

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City profile: Tamale, Ghana

Cited by 44 publications

References 24 publications

Barriers and facilitators to bidirectional screening of TB-DM in Ghana: Healthcare workers’ perspectives

Barriers and facilitators to bidirectional screening of TB-DM in Ghana: Healthcare workers’ perspectives

Spatial and social transformations in a secondary city: the role of mobility in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana

Adopting Gas Automobile Fuels (LPG & CNG) into the Nigerian Transportation System

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