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Our Projects
Research projects spanning political participation, enterprise performance, public health, digital inclusion, and mobility across Ghana.
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Each project represents a commitment to quality data, ethical fieldwork, and actionable outcomes.
The Cost of Doing Politics: Gender Aspects of Political Violence (Phase II)
This study looked at the various forms of political violence parliamentarians experience in the pre-election period, during the 2020 general elections, and after the elections. The main forms of violence the study focused on were intimidation, degrading talk and false rumours, threats, physical violence and destruction of personal or party property. Interviews were conducted among 200 parliamentary candidates of both NPP and NDC who were not elected in the 2020 parliamentary elections to assess the level of political violence they experienced.
The Cost of Doing Politics: Gender Aspects of Political Violence (Phase I)
This study looked at the various forms of political violence parliamentarians experience in the pre-election period, during the 2020 general elections, and after the elections. The main forms of violence the study focused on were intimidation, degrading talk and false rumours, threats, physical violence and destruction of personal or party property. 234 Members of Ghana's Parliament were interviewed to assess the level of political violence they experienced.
Foreign Direct Investor Survey
This study looked at performance of foreign firms and whether there were any differences between Chinese owned firms and non-Chinese owned firms. Information on firm ownership, operations and performance was collected from 406 foreign owned firms in Greater Accra, Ashanti and Western Regions.
Coding and Digitization of Historical Medical Directories
36,025 historical records of physicians from medical directories of the American Medical Association were coded and digitized.
Achiever Companies & Enterprises in Ghana (ACE-G) survey
This study looked at firms' performance and whether there were any differences between firms that export their products and those that did not export. Information on firm ownership, operations and performance was collected from 556 small and medium enterprises in Accra, Tema, Kumasi, Takoradi, Sunyani and Techiman.
Global Fund product availability survey of the tracer products for HIV, TB and Malaria in Ghana
Information on the availability of key tracer products for diagnosis and management of HIV, TB and Malaria was collected from 200 primary, secondary and tertiary health facilities across Ghana in each round of survey. This information was useful in advising The Global Fund where to send the tracer products. This was repeated at the end of each quarter from 2018 to 2021.
Sub-Saharan African Mobilities Project (S-SAMP)
The quantitative phase of the project surveyed 2100 SHS 2 students from 18 high, moderate and low performing senior high schools across 10 regions in Ghana. The qualitative phase interviewed 540 among those who completed the quantitative survey to better understand their choices of labour mobility.
Response to COVID-19: Building Resilience through Water and Wastewater management in Ghana
205 households from 2 rural communities in the Ga South District were interviewed to ascertain their access to water and sanitation facilities in a COVID-19 era as well as how infectious domestic waste was disposed.
Investigating the Impact of Mobile Internet Uptake and Use by Women (1 World Connected)
This project looked at the adoption and how people use mobile broadband internet and what they used it for. Particularly the project had much interest in whether there were any differences in the way mobile internet was used among men and women. This project surveyed 5,488 mobile phone users across all 16 regions in Ghana and also conducted 40 in-depth interviews.
Understanding the Outcome of the 2020 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections
27,500 voters were surveyed from all 275 constituencies in Ghana (100 from each constituency) to understand their voting pattern since 2008 and to learn of what actually influenced their votes in the 2020 parliamentary and presidential elections.
Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on SRHR Beneficiaries in Ghana
720 respondents from Ada, Wenchi, Nkoranza North and Kintampo North were interviewed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on SRHR beneficiaries in Ghana. In addition, 12 In-depth interviews and 6 Focus Group Discussions were conducted to triangulate the findings from the quantitative study.