November 2010

Amnesty and human capital development agenda for the Niger Delta

        The Niger Delta of Nigeria has become increasingly famous due to massive oil deposits and escalation of violence in the region. The emergence of deadly militant groups embodied oil pipeline vandalisation, hostage taking, massacre, and assassination. Unfortunately, the Nigerian government’s top-down measures for alleviating the spate of violence in the region have not yielded...

Author(s): Akeem Ayofe Akinwale

November 2010

Community involvement in urban water and sanitation provision: The missing link in partnerships for improved service delivery in Ghana

  This paper examined how partnerships with communities can complement government’s efforts at improving access to adequate water supply and improved sanitation in urban areas of Ghana, using a descriptive cross-sectional study of the experiences of four communities selected from three regions in the country. The paper concludes that an active involvement of the user community in the planning and...

Author(s): Issaka Kanton Osumanu