March 2009
NGO input and stakeholder participation in natural resource management: Example of North west Cameroon
The predominance of environmental degradation in Africa has generated waves of concern from international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Since the 1990s there has been a remarkable increase in the number of NGOs with environmental protection interest in the South. The paper appraises the involvement of NGOs and stakeholder community in environmental protection projects in terms of resource...
March 2009
Spatio-temporal analysis of micro financing for agricultural innovation diffusion in Mezam division, Cameroon
Some rural development experts consider micro-financing as a panacea for food insecurity and rural poverty alleviation. Development policies in favour of the rural poor using micro-financing have had positive but insufficient impacts on the conditions of poverty. The study uses a combination of primary and secondary data to make a spatio-temporal analysis of micro financing based on the innovation diffusion model. It...
March 2009
Reducing back pain and increasing performance in software professionals
It is obvious that in today’s competitive world every individual has to work very hard to survive and to develop. The nature of today’s work world is a very large portion of work that is done on computers. The presence of computer in the workplace leads to a set of peculiar characteristics of the workstation which require the workers to stay in a static posture for long periods. All these work conditions...
March 2009
The challenges of effective policing as measure of controlling the phenomenon of police corruption in Nigeria today
There is a kind of consensus in the extant literature on democracy, democratization and democratic consolidation generally that maintenance of law and order is a sine qua non to the stability of any polity in all regions and climes. All societies require a body of men and women whose sole occupation is that of protecting them from the dangers of external invasion, internal subversion, or irredentist claims...
March 2009
Accountability, transparency, and government co-option: A case study of four NGOs
As Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) grow in importance on the international development scene, transparency, accountability and government co-option are becoming increasingly important topics. The growing influence of NGOs requires that donors, academics, and policy makers start care-fully examining transparency and accountability issues on both in micro and macro level. In this paper, we seek to answer...
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