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Strategies for Improving Utilization of Maternal Health Program Funds in Ghana.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Strategies for Improving Utilization of Maternal Health Program Funds in Ghana./
Author:	Awotwi, Dorothy Esi.
Description:	1 online resource (184 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-04A(E).
Subject:	Business administration. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355416442

Strategies for Improving Utilization of Maternal Health Program Funds in Ghana.
Awotwi, Dorothy Esi.

Strategies for Improving Utilization of Maternal Health Program Funds in Ghana. - 1 online resource (184 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-04(E), Section: A.

Thesis (D.B.A.)

Includes bibliographical references

Effective utilization of donor resources for maternal health remains a challenge in Ghana. The purpose of this descriptive multiple case study was to identify strategies and processes that recipient partners use to improve the utilization of maternal health program funds. Harrod and Domar's aid-to-investment-to-growth model, Collier's game theory, and Martens' agency theory on aid effectiveness informed the conceptual framework of the study. The study included face-to-face semistructured interviews with 7 program and project managers from 7 UNFPA recipient institutions in Ghana. Data analysis involved assembling, rearrangement, categorizing, and interpreting the data. Member checking and methodological triangulation of interview data with evidence from administrative documents of the 7 recipient institutions occurred to assure the validity of this study's findings. Three themes emerged: clearly identifying and effectively implementing program and project budget support mechanisms, implementing robust aid effectiveness management processes, and utilizing effective project management practices. Findings indicated institutional capacity strengthening, developing and using control mechanisms, and mitigation of funds disbursement delays and activity implementation delays as derivative pathways for maximizing utilization of maternal health program funds. The findings provide potential lessons for similar organizations' improving funds utilization by project management practitioners to sustain or increase donors' interest and mitigate development programs' funding gaps. Implications for social change include the potential for maternal mortality reduction to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of rural, poor, and marginalized women and children in Ghana.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355416442Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148568
Business administration.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Strategies for Improving Utilization of Maternal Health Program Funds in Ghana.
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