Curriculum Vitae: NANA ARABA APT
PRESENT POSITION AND WORK ADDRESS:
IMMEDIATE PAST HEAD
Department of Sociology
University of Ghana,Legon
&
DIRECTOR
Centre for Social Policy Studies
Faculty of Social Studies
University of Ghana, Legon.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Queen's University of Canada B.A. (Philosophy, Psychology, English) 1965
University of Toronto Canada M.S.W. (Social work) 1967
University of Ghana Ph.D. (Sociology) 1989
PROFESSIONAL CAREER:
CANADA: 1968-1970
Social Worker, Children's Aid, Metropolitan Toronto
Counselor, Big Sisters Counseling Services, Toronto.
Non Academic:
Dept. Of Social welfare and Community Development 1970 - 1979
Community Development Officer (Women's Work Programme)
Senior Community Development Officer responsible For Departmental statistical reporting.
Head, research and evaluation unit
Co-ordinator, Integrated Rural development Projects (Aowin/Amenfi and adjust/Bosomtwe). Joint projects of the Friedreich Egbert Foundation and Department of Community development.
Other Professional Experiences: 1972 - 1979
Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana's field workers training evaluation
Consultant YWCA Youth programmes
Member, National Advisory Committee on Social Welfare
Editor, The Social Worker Journal of the Ghana Association of Social Workers.
Academic Career: 1979 - 1999
University of Ghana, Sociology Department.
Lecturer 1979 - 1984
Senior Lecturer 1984 - 1994
Associate Professor 1994
Co-ordinator, Social Administration Unit 1989 - 1996
Director, Centre for Social Policy studies 1996.
Head, Department of Sociology 1997.
Subjects Taught To Date At Under Graduate and Graduate Levels Are As Follows:
Social Policy And Administration
Social Planning And Social Development
Research Methods
Social Work Methodology
Human Behavior And the Social Environment
Issues In Social Policy
Family Welfare
Social gerontology.
Invited Visiting Professor In Other Universities 1990 - 2001
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor School of Social Work.
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Department of Anthropology.
University of Vitwaterstrand, Johannesburg, Centre for Health Policy
(Women's Health Program)
University of Cape Town, Department of Community Health.
University of Cape Town, Centre on Aging.
Lakehead University, Canada.
University of North Texas, Departments of Sociology, Social Work and Applied Gerontology.
Other Academic Activities:
Reviewer and Referee for Journals:
Cross-Cultural Journal of Gerontology.
Journal of Social development in Africa.
Social Security Review
Southern African Journal of Gerontology
Social Work, Africa.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
President, African Gerontological Society
Invited Member, International sociological Association
Invited Member, Association of Anthropology and gerontology, USA.
Member, African Anthropological Society.
Member, Ghana Sociological Society
Member, Ghana Association of social Workers.
MEMBERSHIP OF BOARDS AND COMMITTEES:
Chairperson, African Poverty Reduction Programme Ghana chapter
Chairperson, RESPONSE, (a Ghanaian NGO for the protection of street children)
Chairperson, Board of the Children's Centre, Accra.
Member, Ghana National Commission on Children (GNCC) Committee for the development of children's parks.
Member, WHO advisory Committee on Ageing and Health.
Member, Board of Help Age International, UK.
Member, Board of the United Nations Institute on Ageing, Malta.
Member, Board of Heal Age Ghana.
Member, University of Ghana Academic Board.
Member, Faculty of Social studies, (UG) appointments board. (1994 - 1996)
Member, University Disciplinary Committee.
AREAS OF PUBLICATION AND RESEARCH:
The Family
The Family As A Support System
Gender And Gender roles
The Family At Risk
Children At Risk
Education
Girls' education
Distance Education
Teacher Performance
Business Education Of Women
Ageing And Old Age
The Human Life Course
Culture And Ageing
Inter-Generation Relationship
Social Change And Ageing
Gender And Ageing
CONSULTANCIES
GTZ, Ghana
UNICEF, Ghana
PLAN International Ghana
Action Aid, Ghana.
Save the Children Fund
UN Social development Section, New York and Vienna
WHO Copenhagen, Geneva and Brazzaville
UNESCO, Paris
Overseas Development Agency, UK
The World Bank, Washington, DC
Organisation of African Unity
CONSULTANCY REPORTS:
Household Decision Making And The Well-Being Of Children, for UNICEF, 1997.
Development and the Ageing of Populations. Document prepared for inclusion in UN Global Report on Ageing. With Margaret Grieco, 1997.Ageing In Africa Status Report commissioned by WHO Geneva, 1996.
Listening To Girls On The Street Tell Their Own Story sponsored by UNICEF. With Margaret Grieco, 1995.
Street Children And Aids. Sponsored by UNICEF. With E.Q. Blavo, 1995.
Children In Difficult Circumstances: Ghanaian Children In Institutions. Sponsored by UNICEF. With E.Q. Blavo and S. Wilson, 1995.
The Missing Gender: An Explanation Of The Low Enrollment Rates Of Girls In Ghanaian Schools. Sponsored by UNICEF. With Margaret Grieco, 1994.
Bearing The Weight: "Kayayoo" Ghana's Girl Working Child Sponsored by UNICEF. With Seema Agarwal and Margaret Grieco, 1994.
Jobs For The Boys, Loads For The Girls: Gender And The Organisation Of Street Portering In Accra. Report to Transport Research Laboratory UK. With Margaret Grieco, 1994.
Living Infrastructure: The Role Of Children In Refuse Disposal And Water Provisioning In Ghana. Supplementary report for the Transport Research Laboratory, UK. With Margaret Grieco, 1994.
Distance education Audience Survey: Specialist Certificate Teachers. Legon-Wineba Action Research Project with Margaret Grieco for British ODA, 1994.
Tracking Study Of Newly Trained Teachers. Legon-Wineba Action Research Project with Margaret Grieco for British ODA, 1994.
The Head Teachers' Perspective: Supplement To The Tracking study Of Newly Trained Teachers. Legon-Wineba Action Research Project with Margaret Grieco for ODA, June 1994.
Health, Education And Family Organisation: A Baseline study of Bawjiase and Asesewa Districts. For PLAN International. With Stephen Wilson, 1994.
The Impact Of Socio-Economic Change On The African Family as part of the ad hoc expert committee on the impact of social and economic change on the African Family, UNECA/OAU, Addis Ababa, December, 1993.
Street Children In Accra. Sponsored by Save the Children Fund UK. With E.Q. Blavo and S.K. Opoku. 1992 .
A Study of Legislation Affecting Older People in Ghana. Advisory Paper Prepared On Behalf Of The International Federation on Ageing and EAGLE UK for the UN Policy Papers on ageing, Vienna, 1993.
Promoting Energy Saving Stoves: An Evaluation Report. Report prepared for GTZ And The Department Of Community Development, 1993.
Social Policy and Development in Ghana. Report prepared for GTZ, 1992.
The Aged and the Disabled in Ghana: Policy Perspectives.
Report Prepared for the Ministry Of Finance And Economic Planning. Social Sector Division, Ghana, 1991.
Education And The Elderly: The Ghanaian Example. For UNESCO, Paris, 1984.
PUBLICATIONS:
(a) BOOKS:
Maintaining The Momentum Of Beijing Ashgate, Aldershot, 1998 (with Naana Agyemang-Mensah and Margaret Grieco.
Coping With Old Age In A Changing Africa: Social Change and the Elderly Ghanaian Avebury Publishing Ltd. UK. 1996.
At Christmas And On rainy Days: Transport, Travel and The Female Traders of Accra, with Margaret Grieco and Jeff Turner. Avebury, Aldershot. 1996.
(b) CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
Social Work Practice and Theory: Ghana
In International Handbook On Social Work Theory And Practice, (Eds) N.S. Mayades TD Watts and D. Elliot, Greenwood Press, Westport. 1997 pp.320 - 343.Ageing in Africa: Toward a Re-definition of Caring.
In Stanley R. Ingman et al An Ageing Population, An Ageing Planet And A Sustainable Future. Texas Institute for Research and Education on Ageing. Vol. 1. 1995, Chapter 9.
The Storm Clouds are Grey,
In Ken tout (Ed) Elderly Care: A World Perspective, Chapman Hall, London, 1992 pp. 10 - 12Family Support to Elderly People in Ghana.
In H. Kendig, A. Hashimoto & L.C. Coppard (Eds) Family Support For The Elderly: The International Experience, Oxford University Press NY 1992 pp. 203 - 212.The Role of the Family in the Care of the Elderly in Developing Countries.
In Robert L. Kane, J. Grimley Evans and David Macfadyen (Editors Improving The Health Of Older People: A World View, Oxford University Press, 1990 pp. 362 - 380.Ageing in Africa,
In Enid Gort, Ageing In Cross-Cultural Perspective: Africa And The Americas, The Phelps Stokes Fund, NY, 1988, pp. 17 - 31.Social Planning in National Development
in Development And Participation Ghana Association of Social Workers, 1973.Social Welfare Education in developing Countries.
In Social Welfare Education And Practice In Developing Countries. Ghana Association of Social Workers, Accra, 1972, pp. 39 - 50.
Social Welfare Administration and Research in Ghana,
In International Perspectives On Social Welfare Research. Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. 1992.
(c) JOURNALS/ARTICLES:
Interdependence and Independence: Averting the Poverty of Older Persons in an Ageing World. With Margaret Grieco, United Nations Bulletin On Ageing, 1996.
Health Care of the Elderly in Africa: Focus on Ghana. CARING vol XIV, No. 1 January 1995: 42 - 49.
Urbanisation, Caring for the elderly and the Changing African family: The Challenge to Social Welfare and Social Policy. International Social Security Review, Geneva. 3/4/95: 111-122.
Gender and Inter-generational Support. Southern African Journal Of Gerontology Vol.3 No. 2 October 1994: 23-29.
Care of the Elderly in Ghana: An Emerging Issue. Journal of Cross. Cultural Gerontology, 8, 1993 301 - 312.
Elderly Women's Economic Participation: Problems and Prospects in Africa. BOLD Vol. 2, No. 1, 1992, pp 30 - 36.
Ageing in the Community: Trends and Prospects in Africa. Community development Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, Oxford University Press, April, 1992, pp. 130 - 139.
Changing family Patterns and their Impact on Ageing in Africa, In Social Security And Changing Family Structures, Studies and research No. 29, International Social Security association, Geneva, 1992, pp. 77-88.
Who is Caring for the Aged in Ghana? BOLD Vol. 4, 1991 Ghanaian Youth in Ageing: A Survey Report BOLD Vol. No. 3, May 1991
Activities, Care and Support of Ageing Women in Africa: A Ghanaian Case Study, in Irene Hoskins (Ed) Older Women As Beneficiaries Of And Contributors to Development: International Perspectives AARP Washington 1991 pp. 87 - 99.
Support Sources and Well-being of the Elderly in Ghana. Zeitschrift Fur Gerontologie,Vol. 19, No.2, March/April 1986, pp. 90 - 95.
Changing Family Patterns and their Impact on the Aged in Africa. Hearing before the special committee on Ageing, United States Senate 1986, New York.
Ghana: Selection Committee par pays, Bibliographic Internationale de Gerontologie Sociale, Vol. 1 Centre International de Gerntologie Sociale, Paris, 1984 pp. 19 - 23
Ageing in Ghana, Viellissement Et Development En Afrique Groupe D'experts, CIGS, Versailles, 1983.
Urbanisation and the Aged. Family research Papers No. 3 University of Ghana, Institute of African studies, 1975.
Children Without Parents: A Ghanaian Case Study. Family Research Papers No. 4 University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies, 1974.
The Ghanaian Family: An Overview. The Social Worker, Vol. No. 1 1973 pp. 12 - 18.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS AND WORKING PAPERS, CONFERENCES:
(a) INTERNATIONAL:
Freeing Women's Time: Voices from African women. OAU/Government of Uganda Conference On Empowerment Of Women Through Adult Literacy. September 8 - 13 1996.
Bearing the weight: the kayayoo, Ghana, girl working child UNICEF working paper presented at the UNICEF conference on the girl child, Ahmededbad, India, 1994.
An Approach to health care of the elderly in Africa. World Organisation for Care In The Home And Hospice Conference. Chicago, 1994.
Older Women and Development: Issues for Social Policy in Africa. Women's Health Conference, University of Vitwaterstrand, Johannesburg, 1994.
Help for Self-help: Elderly African Women ahead of Development. International Congress On gerontology. Budapest, 1993.
The road ahead for Elder Care: the challenge of South Africa. South African Council For The Aged Durban, 1993.
Elderly Women and Health. Expert Consultative group Meeting For The 1993World Bank world Development report, Investing In Health. Oslo, 1992.
The Ghanaian Family in Transition. University of Michigan, School of Social Work, And The Centre for Afro-American And African Studies, 1992.
The Vienna Plan of Action on Ageing: Africa's progress. World Congress of Gerontology, Mexico 1989.
The Role Of The Family In Africa. Expert Committee for Health of the Elderly. W.H.O., Geneva.1987
The Right To Live: The Challenge of Forgotten and Homeless Families. Invited Paper International Seminar on the family, extreme Poverty and Development, UNESCO, Paris, 1987.
Sustaining Social Integration of the Elderly in Africa, World Congress of Gerontology, New York, 1985.
Age and Activities of Women, Conference of the International Centre for Social Gerontology, Deauville, 1982.
Ageing in Developing Countries: A message to the World Assembly on Ageing. World Congress of Gerontology, Namburg, 1981.
Appropriate Technology and The Aged. W.H.O. Preparatory Conference for the UN World Assembly of the Elderly, Mexico, 1980.
Social Change and Aging in Africa. Expert Group Meeting of the United Nations Social Development Section, Kiev, 1979.
The Case For Social Welfare Research in Africa. International Conference on Social Welfare, Nairobi, 1978.
International Symposium on Research and Evaluation in Social Gerontology, Washington, 1971.
White House Conference on Ageing. Washington, 1971.
(b) WITHIN GHANA:
Social Change And The Ghanaian family, Invited Keynote address National committee on the Year of the Family's seminar on the family, Accra, 1994.
The Way of Development, Invited Keynote address Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) Triennial regional Delegate Conference, Cape coast, 1994.
Distance education Survey Report: Tutors Perceptions. Report prepared for ODA and presented at the University College of Education, winneba, 1994.
Street Children: Issues In Social Service Delivery. Invited Paper Save the Children Fund UK Colloquium on street Children. 1993.
Ageing Women and Health: Some Policy Issues. Institute of African Studies, development and Women's Studies Programme, 1992.
Streetism In Ghana. Workshop of Street Children Organisations, Akosombo, July 1997.
Women At The Cross Roads. Invited Keynote address 50th Anniversary Celebration of Holy Child Secondary school, Cape Coast 1996.
Can We Retire Confidently? Invited paper GTZ Colloquium on Social Security and Protection Systems in Ghana, 1988.
Population growth, ageing And Development. Invited Paper National Conference on Population and National Reconstruction. University of Ghana, 1986.
The New Deal: Worker, Wife and Mother, Seminar on the Status of Women. USSI, Accra, 1972.
Youth In The 70's And Beyond, Symposium of the Ghana National Youth Council, Arienya, 1971.
Handbook Of Information: The Department of Social welfare and Community Development. Republic of Ghana, 1971.
AWARDS & HONOURS
British Geriatric Society. 50 Anniversary award for Research & Services in Gerontology London, 1997.
International Federation on Ageing (IFA) Presidential award, Durban 1997.
Social Work 40th Anniversary Award, Legon 1998.
Invited speaker for a UN Secretary General's Launching of the 1999 International Year for Older Persons, New York October 1998.
Invited UN delegate to the World Assembly on Ageing .... Vienna 1984.
Invited Faculty Member: Salzburg Seminar Session 369, July 1999.
PERSONAL DATA:
DATE OF BIRTH: 26 October, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH: Shama, Ghana
PRESENT NATIONALITY: Dutch (By Marriage).