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Implementation challenges facing Ghana school feeding programme: a case of Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality.

The School Feeding Programme in Ghana commenced in 2005 on a pilot basis with one school in each District. Like many other pilot programmes in Ghana it has not been without challenges and that of Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality is no exception. The research question seeks to discover the major services the Ghana School Feeding Provides, major challenges facing the implementation, the effects of the challenges on service delivery and what needs to be done to reduce the challenges to ensure effective and efficient delivery of service. The targeted populations were the pupils of the beneficiary schools and the various stakeholders associated with the implementation of the programme. Purposive and systematic sampling methods were utilized to draw eighty-six (86) samples from the population. Questionnaires were used to draw information from the respondents. Data was analyzed and presented with aid of tables, frequencies, percentages, pie charts and bar charts. The responses were also discussed thoroughly. The research findings have revealed among other things that, most of the services including de-worming of pupils twice in a year, provision of kitchen facilities and school canteen, provision of one hot meal daily among others were not provided. Some challenges facing the implementation of GSFP were financial constraints, poor monitoring and evaluation, poor geographical targeting of beneficiary schools among others. However, it was revealed that the challenges had effect on their service delivery. The following measures were suggested to be put in place to ensure quality service delivery. It was suggested that there should be the provision of core national public financing through the Ministry of Finance among others to fund the programme. Based on the finding from this research, conclusion and recommendations have been made.

Source: KNUST
Implementation challenges of public procurement ACT, 2003 ACT, 663 on road sector projects

The Public Procurement Act of 2003 was intended to address the weaknesses which were inherent in the Public Financial Management Reform Programme (PUFMARP). The objects of the Act among others was to harmonise public procurement processes, secure judicious, economic and efficient use of state resources and to ensure that public procurement is fair, transparent and non-discriminatory. However effective implementation by the procurement entities has been the greatest challenge in the attainment of the said objectives. The research therefore assessed the challenges affecting the implementation of the Public Procurement Act of 2003, by the road sector. Interviews were conducted with officers of the Department of Urban Roads who have been using the Public Procurement Act to procure Works, Goods and Services. The data obtained was then analysed using the thematic matrix approach. The road sector appears to be doing well in terms of the implementation of the Act, except that some sections of the law is affect its effective implementation. The implementation of the Act is being hindered by poor information dissemination, inadequate capacity and training, delay in payment of works executed by service providers and challenges with the Law itself. Many of these challenges account for the delay in completion of projects, abandoned projects and loss of value for money. To enhance effective implementation of the Act, the following, were recommended: amendment to Public Procurement Law is required, proper information dissemination as well as Training and capacity development.

Source: KNUST
Implementation of a Data Protection Model dubbed Harricent_RSECC

Every organization subsists on data, which is a quintessential resource. Quite a number of studies have been carried out relative to procedures that can be deployed to enhance data protection. However, available literature indicates most authors have focused on either encryption or encoding schemes to provide data security. The ability to integrate these techniques and leverage on their strengths to achieve a robust data protection is the pivot of this study. As a result, a data protection model, dubbed Harricent_RSECC has been designed and implemented to achieve the study’s objective through the utilization of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and Reed Solomon (RS) codes. The model consists of five components, namely: message identification, generator module, data encoding, data encryption and data signature. The result is the generation of the Reed Solomon codewords; cipher texts; and generated hash values which are utilized to detect and correct corrupt data; obfuscates data; and sign data respectively, during transmission or storage. The contribution of this paper is the ability to combine encoding and encryption schemes to enhance data protection to ensure confidentiality, authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiation.

Source: KNUST
Implementation challenges of the national sanitation day policy in the Sekyere South District.

The study was embarked on to be acquainted with the implementation challenges of the National Sanitation Day Policy in the Sekyere South District in the Ashanti Region. Not much has been achieved with regards to poor sanitation in spite of the many studies that have been carried out in Ghana. Consequently, the National Sanitation Day Policy which was launched in 2011 sought to inform people on the consequence of poor sanitation practice. The study examined the research objectives and question in order to make the assessment of the results meaningful. It specifically focused on the implementation challenges of the National Sanitation Day Policy in the Sekyere South District. The study was carried out at the Sekyere South District, which is located in the Ashanti region, Agona to be precise. Purposive sampling technique was employed to elicit responses to collect primary data from public administrators at Sekyere South District Assembly and the citizenry. Two hundred questionnaires were administered to the public administrators and citizenry. There was a 100% response rate. The analysis was done with the help of Microsoft Excel. The study exposed some challenges during the implementation of the National Health Sanitation Day Policy in the Sekyere South District. The public‟s perception of the policy and its effect on implementation was ascertained as well as level of stakeholder participation. To some extent, stakeholder participation was also inadequate. Again, the level of awareness proves the positive effect of the policy on attitude and behavior of the respondents.

Source: KNUST
Implementation challenges of the public procurement ACT 663 (ACT 2003) in Public Hospitals in Kumasi

The Public Procurement Act 663 (2003) has many objectives such as ensuring transparency, creating competition and ensuring effective and efficient delivery of health care in public hospitals in the country. However, ten years down the line, the objectives of the Act are yet to be realized for effective health care due to some challenges with its implementation. Therefore, a cross sectional survey was conducted on a non-probabilistic sample of 60 respondents using structured questionnaire to elicit the implementation challenges of the Act and to suggest measures that can mitigate such challenges. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics involving frequencies, percentages and mean score rankings. The analysis revealed that the major implementation challenge of the Act was delay in payment of contractors and suppliers of drug and non-drug consumables leading to inefficiencies in health care delivery. Apart from this, several other challenges were identified which include high advertisement cost, lack of qualified staff, inadequate monitoring and evaluation and political interference. Among the measures which were identified to mitigate these challenges the major one was the employment of qualified trained procurement professionals. Other supporting measures also included the establishment of a national procurement fund, refresher courses for procurement practitioners, internal auditing and donor support funding among others. Based on the results of the study the researcher recommends regular and periodic in-service training for members of the procurement co mmittees, the use of the mass media to sensitize the public to contribute towards the establishment of a national procurement fund and political non-interference in the procurement process

Source: KNUST
Implementation of a Secured Data Communication between Heterogeneous Systems using Web Services Case Study: Kumasi Polytechnic

Web services are believed to be the future of distributed applications since they access a little resource from the host machine to operate. Though many developers have bought into this idea, the development of web services still needs a wide implementation and deployment (Du , 2004). Organizations are still finding it difficult to grasp its make up and deployment. Many organizations, still depend on partners infrastructure for data processing and its transfer. For example with respect to our case study (Kumasi Polytechnic), school fees data of students takes a long time before the institution acknowledges receipt. This is due to the fact that the banking institution involved has to do some internal reconciliations. In actuality this reconciliations do not benefit the institution but they bare its consequence in the area of student registrations. In transferring or sending real time data, web service developers claim web services are the smartest way (Du , 2004), but customers would want to know whether it is really what it is meant to be. Its performance coupled with high security is very key to the customers who would want to implement such services. In this case web service providers need a well tested framework before the actual commercialization of the web services. For the past years, the Kumasi Polytechnic Institute had had many challenges with the the real time access to school fees data for other process. Transactions sent over raw the hyper text transfer protocol(http) are susceptible to common attacks such as the man-in-the-middle attack. When this attack occurs, the attacker will be able to retrieve important messages from the http request and later use it against the real person the message was meant for. This is a main problem of raw http. In this thesis, we showcase a secured way of transferring highly sensitive data through Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) by implementing two kinds of security levels i.e. the Secure Socket Layer and the a single key data encryption algorithm. The results proved that encrypting data over the internet and also encrypting the transfer protocol has no significant effect of the data that iii is transfered

Source: KNUST
The implementation of engineering, procurement and construction contracts in the public sector.

In most countries across the world, particularly African countries, the public sector is considered the single most important player in terms of promoting socio-economic development. This is because, in almost every country, the public sector is the largest employer providing jobs at central, regional and local levels and at the same time provide high-quality services such as health services, education, transportation, financial, infrastructure and security services to citizens. There is a huge gap between the needed infrastructure and what is provided. The public sector must therefore develop innovative ways of providing the needed infrastructure. The Engineering, Procurement and Construction contracts is one of the methods which the public sector can use to breach the infrastructure gap. The study therefore sought to examine the implementation of Engineering Procurement and Construction contracts as a procurement method in the public sector. The objectives were to identify the types of EPC contracts, the factors considered in adopting EPC contracts and to assess the challenges associated with the implementation of EPC contracts. Using a purposive sampling approach, interview guide and questionnaires were used to interview procurement professionals with the experience in EPC contracts. A narrative analysis technique and descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data obtained from the interview. The results show that, EPC contracts are not popular in the public sector because it usually involves large projects. The research therefore recommends that, government should consider the adoption of EPC in whatever major project it intends to execute, such as roads, hospitals and schools. The researcher proposes that further studies in this area should be carried out to compare the various forms of public procurement methods in Ghana to EPC contracts

Source: KNUST
Implementation of e-learning in Ghanaian universities: a case study of KNUST

This study explores the implementation of e-learning in Ghanaian universities with KNUST as a case study. The objectives of the study examined the advantages and disadvantages of e-learning to KNUST, the various types of e-learning systems considered by KNUST, the 'Moodle' E-learning system adopted by KNUST, the strategies involved in the e-learning system, the challenges faced by KNUST in the implementation of its e-learning system along with possible solutions and finally a recommendation on critical issues to be considered for the effective implementation of the e-learning system. A descriptive study with a cross-sectional design comprising of 125 interviewees was done. The findings indicated that, the advantages of e-leaming for KNUST far outweigh the disadvantages of e-learning at KNUST. Furthermore a type of e-learning system which blends the advantages of a course management system and an open source system is ideal for KNUST. In addition, KNUST's Moodle e-learning system has been well customised to suit the university. However, KNUST's e-lepning implementation strategy has been a failure due to a wide variety of reasons. Ch^enges to implementing KNUST's e-learning system included inadequate ICT infrastructure, inadequate funds and inadequate ICT staff. Solutions to the challenges included provision of ICT infrastructure over a period and expansion of KNUST intranet and internet to non¬residential student areas via wireless. Among recommendations made were regular e- learning workshops organised for students and lecturers to enhance awareness, the drawing and implementation of an elaborate e-learning policy by the university and establishment of a reward system to motivate lecturers blend e-learning into their face to face lectures For universities in Ghana, recommendations were made for them to adopt e- learning to augment and highly impact teaching and learning given the ever-increasing enrolment figures.

Source: KNUST
Implementation of adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system for malaria diagnosis. (A case study at Kwesimintsim Polyclinic)

Health issues have become one of the problems bedeviling most developing and under-developed countries in our world today. Ghana is of no exception from this menace especially in Africa. One of the prevalent diseases battling with Ghanaians and Africa as a whole is the malaria disease. In 1994, the WHO reported that malaria and measles were the most common causes of premature death. in children under five(5) years. Diagnosis of malaria in many cases has not been accurate by most doctors or physicians due to external human factors such as fatigue and hastiness among others, thereby leading to patients being subjected to treatment again which also come with cost. Hence the need for this research work entitled, “Implementation Of Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System For Malaria Diagnosis. (A Case Study At Kwesimintsim Polyclinic) This paper employs the use of Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) to provide a better option for malaria diagnosis than the traditional diagnosis method which is characterized by erotic guess work and observation of patients by doctors. ANFIS, which is derived from the term Adaptive Network Fuzzy Inference System, was first proposed by Jyh-Shing and Jang and later changed to Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System. This system is designed to allow IF-THEN rules and membership functions (fuzzy logic) to be constructed based on the historical data and also includes the adaptive nature for automatic tuning of the membership functions. Related works done by various authours in the area of study were reviewed. One hundred(100) datasets of patients from the clinic were used in this research work. Sixty(60) of the datasets were used as training datasets for training the ANFIS and forty(40) datasets were used checking datasets. The results tested after training showed that ANFIS has the ability to diagnose malaria efficiently than the traditional method with very minimal error.

Source: KNUST
Implementation of adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system for malaria diagnosis. (A case study at Kwesimintsim Polyclinic).

Health issues have become one of the problems bedeviling most developing and underdeveloped countries in our world today. Ghana is of no exception from this menace especially in Africa. One of the prevalent diseases battling with Ghanaians and Africa as a whole is the malaria disease. In 1994, the WHO reported that malaria and measles were the most common causes of premature death. in children under five(5) years. Diagnosis of malaria in many cases has not been accurate by most doctors or physicians due to external human factors such as fatigue and hastiness among others, thereby leading to patients being subjected to treatment again which also come with cost. Hence the need for this research work entitled, “Implementation Of Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System For Malaria Diagnosis. (A Case Study At Kwesimintsim Polyclinic) This paper employs the use of Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) to provide a better option for malaria diagnosis than the traditional diagnosis method which is characterized by erotic guess work and observation of patients by doctors. ANFIS, which is derived from the term Adaptive Network Fuzzy Inference System, was first proposed by Jyh-Shing and Jang and later changed to Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System. This system is designed to allow IF THEN rules and membership functions (fuzzy logic) to be constructed based on the historical data and also includes the adaptive nature for automatic tuning of the membership functions. Related works done by various authours in the area of study were reviewed. One hundred(100) datasets of patients from the clinic were used in this research work. Sixty(60) of the datasets were used as training datasets for training the ANFIS and forty(40) datasets were used checking datasets. The results tested after training showed that ANFIS has the ability to diagnose malaria efficiently than the traditional method with very minimal error.

Source: KNUST
An implementation of environmental management system according to iso 14001 standard in the hospitality industry: a case study - Golden Tulip Kumasi City Hotel

By and large hotels are being appraised by their level of environmental performance rather than their financial performance. As a result of competition and uncontainable pressures from customers, regulatory bodies, investors and other stakeholders, management of hotels are motivated to adopt proper environmental practices. Golden Tulip Kumasi City which has an international exposure was selected as a case study to help achieve the main objectives of the research. An extensive and a comprehensive literature was also reviewed on ISO 14000 Standard to formulate the guidelines and Environmental Management Programmes for the industry. The research sought to identify the specific environmental aspects and their respective impacts on the environment in tandem with formulating an Environmental Management Programme and guidelines according to ISO 14001 Standard. The results showed that some of the facilities, activities and services such as air conditioning, laundry and kitchen provided by the hotels have a significant impact on the environment. Among such impacts are increased in waste and disposal of unsorted waste, steam and chemical vapours released to air and contamination of soil and water. Therefore, there is an earnest need for an adoption of proper environmental management practices in the hospitality industry. In summary, the hospitality industry in Ghana has no guideline for a successful implementation of an EMS according to ISO 14001 Standard. Therefore, there is a strong recommendation for them to adopt the standard for an improvement on their environmental performance.

Source: KNUST
Implementation of a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) System in a Tomato Cannery

The main purpose of this study is to implement and validate the HACCP system in a tomato cannery. Every process step from the receipt of raw material to the packaging of finished goods underwent hazard analysis. After evaluation, five significant hazards points were identified at the raw material receipt, blending, pasteurizing, sieving and retort steps. At the end of the study, two (2) CCPs and one (1) control point were identified. The 1.25 mm sieve at the filling step ensuring physical hazards present in the paste were reduced to acceptable levels before being packed into the cans. It is the first CCP. The retort step with a water temperature and holding time of 90 °C and 40 minutes respectively for cans after they had been seamed is the second CCP. The pasteurizer with the minimum product retention time and temperature of two (2) minutes and 88 °C was established as a control point. The target pH of less than 4.6 for tomato paste inhibits the growth of spore forming organisms which might be present in the product. The temperature/ time regime of the pasteurizer and the retort steps coupled with the increasing acidity make up the multi hurdle effect which ensured all pathogens were eliminated or rendered harmless in the final product.

Source: KNUST
"Implementation of mobile applications for a commercial company" (case study: Bralima's Billing System)

Selling products at home is one of the channels used by many commercial companies for increasing incomes and competitive advantages. However, the capturing of manual invoices issued by salespersons into information systems for statistical analyses could be a consuming task and source of errors, particularly if the company has a great number of customers. This thesis focuses on a case study of one of Heineken's breweries, called BRALIMA, located in Democratic Republic of Congo which had developed a great Home Delivery Service as a channel of distribution. This brewery boasts around 3,000 customers that could patronize their products every single day. Therefore, this * involves a lot of manual invoices to be captured into the information system called MISHA SRD, a very cumbersome task and source of errors which lead to customer complaints and dissatisfaction. This thesis attempts an assessment of the current system of capturing invoices at BRALIMA, to bring out its strengths and weaknesses. Further, the project analyses the opportunity of a new system based on mobile application and assess the risks involved. The implementation and assessment of the result of this mobile application are parts of this thesis.

Source: KNUST