Community well-being in Ghana: an African perspective

Bernard Yangmaadome Guri; Bas Verschuuren

doi:10.3362/9781780448374.005

Community well-being in Ghana: an African perspective

Bernard Yangmaadome Guri, Bas Verschuuren

Sociology of Development and Change

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This chapter tells the story of well-being in the Forikrom community through its search for conservation and revitalization of sacred caves as part of the development of an ecotourism and environmental restoration project. The community applies the endogenous development approach and is supported by the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD), a Ghanaian NGO. The focus of the chapter is to demonstrate that different well-being assessment approaches and methods have been applied and how these helped both the community and the NGO to a better understanding of the changes in community well-being before and after the development projects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes
Subtitle of host publication	Are we living well?
Editors	Bas Verschuuren, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Wim Hiemstra
Publisher	Practical Action Publishing
Chapter	5
Pages	78-100
ISBN (Electronic)	9781780448374
ISBN (Print)	9781853398384
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3362/9781780448374.005
Publication status	Published - 23 Jun 2014

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Community well-being in Ghana: an African perspective. / Guri, Bernard Yangmaadome; Verschuuren, Bas.
Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes: Are we living well?. ed. / Bas Verschuuren; Suneetha M. Subramanian; Wim Hiemstra. Practical Action Publishing, 2014. p. 78-100.

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