Frank Louis Kwaku Ohemeng
Biographic Data
| ID | 143532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frank Louis Kwaku Ohemeng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frank Louis Kwaku |
| FAMILY NAME | Ohemeng |
| SIGNATURE | OHEMENG F L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0386-486X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Policy termination revisited
This article revisits the concept of policy termination, a largely overlooked yet critical phase in the policy process. While early policy cycle models included termination as a distinct stage, contemporary frameworks often omit it, reflecting its marginalization in policy scholarship. This article argues for the renewed relevance of policy termination, distinguishing it from related concepts like policy dismantling, and framing it as a specific …
Central–Local Government Relationship, Digital Technology, and Property Tax Administration in Developing Countries
The politics of public policy termination in Ghana
Policy termination is assumed to be a rational or ideological exercise in which a policy is done away with, as demonstrated in most developed countries. Unfortunately, this does not seem to stand up to further scrutiny in developing countries, as some scholars wonder whether developing countries make policies or are just bandwagoners in the first place. Be that as it may, policy termination still takes place in these countries. How, then, can one…
The State of Policy Capacity Problems in Africa
Why is policy capacity still a problem after years of capacity‐building initiatives in Africa? Many African states continue to lack policy capacity. Despite recognizing the limited policy capacity issues on the continent and all the capacity‐development initiatives that continue to take place, there has been a dearth of theorizing as to why this problem persists. How then can one explain the apparent dilemma? The failure to theorize policy capaci…
Collaborative governance in social protection programs in developing countries
Social protection has increasingly become a central tool of governments to deal with vulnerabilities and poverty in society. In the context of policy and governance challenges, there has been a shift from a governance approach that focused extensively on governmental actors to one involving a multiplicity of actors in a process of collaborative governance. However, limited studies have been conducted in terms of how stakeholders have been collabo…
The Failure to Learn Lessons from Policy Failures in Developing Countries? The Case of Electricity Privatization in Ghana
Do policy makers learn from their failures? The rational and normal expectation would be that they do, but experience shows otherwise. Notwithstanding the valuable and multiply expected learning opportunities presented by such failures, especially in Africa, policy errors continue unabated in both the developed and developing worlds. Even the high-profile nature of the failures across the continent seems insufficient to convince African policy ma…
Towards a paradigm shift in social protection in developing countries? Analysing the emergence of the Ghana national unemployment insurance scheme from a multiple streams perspective
The COVID 19 pandemic continues to cause a lot of uncertainty around the world. At the onset of the pandemic, governments responded with policies and programs to curb its devastating effects on citizens, and Ghana was no exception. Although the Ghanaian government introduced various stop-gap measures to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, the inadequacies of the extant social welfare system was badly exposed. Consequently, as the pandemic seeth…
Provide our basic needs or we go out”
The effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic cuts across every facet of a nation’s life. The near collapse of economies with the attendant job losses has brought forth the need for effective social policies, particularly in developing countries, that can serve citizens in dire need. Consequently, many of these countries have had to craft emergency social policies to help their citizens. Ghana is no exception. While measures to contr…
The “illusion” of administrative sovereignty in developing countries
The emergence of transnational administrations and their influence on domestic affairs of countries have led to the questioning of the notion of administrative sovereignty. Yet, the question of whether countries have this sovereignty and how it should be understood is to be fully resolved and the debate continues unabated. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by focusing on whether countries from the developing south, are and can be admini…
Employee perception of inclusivity and organizational performance
Inclusion has moved to the forefront of human resource management in both public and private sector organizations around the world. A fractured research literature has arisen from a succession of diversity policies, contradictory findings, competing goals, contested definitions, and varying institutional factors and organizational cultures. This article seeks to examine the level of inclusion and the connection between inclusion and effort in the…
Employee engagement and task performance in state‐owned enterprises in developing countries
A growing number of studies prove a relationship between employee engagement (EE) and performance. Unfortunately, almost all originate in the developed world; the few that look at developing countries, including their public sectors, have focused more on the civil service and agencies, and neglect state‐owned enterprises (SOEs), despite their importance for delivery of public services. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of EE on t…
The conundrum of absenteeism in the Canadian public service
Absenteeism has received increasing attention in public sectors across the world. In Canada's federal public service, absenteeism cost the government approximately $871 million in lost wages in 2013 alone (Barkel 2014a ). Current and previous Canadian governments have attempted to reform sick‐leave policy to reduce absenteeism, but simple solutions to a complex problem will likely result in negative and unforeseen consequences. This article conce…
Building Resilient Organizations for Effective Service Delivery in Developing Countries
Public organizations in developing countries can only be effective if they are able to develop and implement public policies effectively and efficiently. However, what continues to bother scholars is how to ensure that such bureaucratic organizations are also accountable and democratic. Some have argued that the solution lies with the building of merit-based organizations. Nevertheless, we believe that a critical factor in building efficient orga…
One way traffic
Civil Society and Policy Making in Developing Countries
Not long ago, the number of think tanks in Ghana began to increase steadily. These organizations have now carved out a niche as repositories of ideas for government to tap when formulating and implementing good policies for development. Unfortunately, while their role in the policy making process is well accepted, whether they actually have a substantial impact on policy outcomes is as yet undetermined. In this paper, we will examine the impact o…
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling
Ghanaian women have made, and continue to make, considerable progress on their journey to the upper echelons of the decision-making institutions of the country. However, the overall number of women in decision-making positions, especially in the civil service, is distressingly small. At the end of 2011, for example, of 36 positions available only six were filled by women, as chief directors of a ministry. What is being witnessed in the civil serv…
Overcoming the Digital Divide in Developing Countries
The emergence of information communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries has been hailed as a major step toward a solution to the problem of the underdevelopment of many of them. Obstacles such as corruption, delays in service delivery, lack of public sector accountability, and so on can many believe be overcome with ICT: particularly, the Internet and cell or mobile phones. Consequently, governments in these countries continue to e…
Neither public nor private
The New Public Management emerged in the 1980s, and with it, alternative service delivery ( ASD ) mechanisms, which removed service delivery from the public bureaucracy and separated policy making from policy implementation. Most western governments implemented measures including privatization or contracting out of service delivery to the private sector. By the mid‐1990s, many governments started reversing ASD policies and sought new ways to deli…
Implementing a Revenue Authority Model of Tax Administration in Ghana
The desire to increase domestic revenue mobilization has made tax reform a priority for governments in many developing countries. Addressing the tax problem, however, is often a complex process that involves reforming the tax system, as well as setting up effective administrative structures to administer that system. Many see the revenue authority (RA) model as the solution to these problems. Developing an RA model in Ghana began in the mid 1980s…
Performance management and “undesirable” organizational behaviour
Performance management ( PM ) is a major administrative mechanism for assessing efficiency and effectiveness, and for exacting accountability from organizations and individuals. Many have argued, however, that using PM in such ways creates perverse incentives and may lead to undesirable behaviours, such as the obstruction of accurate performance measurement in an effort to avoid public mortification. By examining the introduction of standardized …
Has the Bubble Finally Burst? A Comparative Examination of the Failure of Privatization of Water Services Delivery in Atlanta (USA) and Hamilton (Canada)
The last few years have witnessed significant attempts by a number of municipalities across the globe to reverse private sector involvement in water services delivery to citizens, with examples across North America, Europe, as well as in some developing countries. What makes this reversal of private sector participation in water services delivery baffle many is that, in the not too distance past, private sector involvement in water delivery was t…
The new Charter System in Ghana
Public services delivery has been at the forefront of public sector reforms in many countries throughout the past three decades. Invariably, the desire is to do more with less, empower citizens, enhance transparency, and hold public servants accountable. Many countries have therefore developed a number of service delivery mechanisms over the years to achieve this objective. A good example is the Citizen’s Charter System. First developed in the Un…
Constraints in the Implementation of Performance Management Systems in Developing Countries
Performance management has become a key element in modern public sector governance. As a result, many developing countries have introduced it as a means to measure organizational and individual efficiency in order to ensure that public sector organizations meet the needs of the public. However, the implementation of performance management systems in many of these countries has been affected by a number of institutional and capacity constraints su…
Getting the state right
Private research institutions, commonly referred to as think tanks, are a recent phenomenon in the Ghanaian policy environment. They are part of a growing number of NGOs that have emerged with Ghana's political liberalisation and are attempting to influence policymaking. These institutions exert a greater influence on policies affecting the functioning of the 'administrative state' than other NGOs. Through their efforts, ideas pertaining to admin…
One way traffic
Getting the state right
Private research institutions, commonly referred to as think tanks, are a recent phenomenon in the Ghanaian policy environment. They are part of a growing number of NGOs that have emerged with Ghana's political liberalisation and are attempting to influence policymaking. These institutions exert a greater influence on policies affecting the functioning of the 'administrative state' than other NGOs. Through their efforts, ideas pertaining to admin…
Provide our basic needs or we go out”
The effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic cuts across every facet of a nation’s life. The near collapse of economies with the attendant job losses has brought forth the need for effective social policies, particularly in developing countries, that can serve citizens in dire need. Consequently, many of these countries have had to craft emergency social policies to help their citizens. Ghana is no exception. While measures to contr…
Civil Society and Policy Making in Developing Countries
Not long ago, the number of think tanks in Ghana began to increase steadily. These organizations have now carved out a niche as repositories of ideas for government to tap when formulating and implementing good policies for development. Unfortunately, while their role in the policy making process is well accepted, whether they actually have a substantial impact on policy outcomes is as yet undetermined. In this paper, we will examine the impact o…
Performance management and “undesirable” organizational behaviour
Performance management ( PM ) is a major administrative mechanism for assessing efficiency and effectiveness, and for exacting accountability from organizations and individuals. Many have argued, however, that using PM in such ways creates perverse incentives and may lead to undesirable behaviours, such as the obstruction of accurate performance measurement in an effort to avoid public mortification. By examining the introduction of standardized …
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling
Ghanaian women have made, and continue to make, considerable progress on their journey to the upper echelons of the decision-making institutions of the country. However, the overall number of women in decision-making positions, especially in the civil service, is distressingly small. At the end of 2011, for example, of 36 positions available only six were filled by women, as chief directors of a ministry. What is being witnessed in the civil serv…
Neither public nor private
The New Public Management emerged in the 1980s, and with it, alternative service delivery ( ASD ) mechanisms, which removed service delivery from the public bureaucracy and separated policy making from policy implementation. Most western governments implemented measures including privatization or contracting out of service delivery to the private sector. By the mid‐1990s, many governments started reversing ASD policies and sought new ways to deli…
Constraints in the Implementation of Performance Management Systems in Developing Countries
Performance management has become a key element in modern public sector governance. As a result, many developing countries have introduced it as a means to measure organizational and individual efficiency in order to ensure that public sector organizations meet the needs of the public. However, the implementation of performance management systems in many of these countries has been affected by a number of institutional and capacity constraints su…
Employee perception of inclusivity and organizational performance
Inclusion has moved to the forefront of human resource management in both public and private sector organizations around the world. A fractured research literature has arisen from a succession of diversity policies, contradictory findings, competing goals, contested definitions, and varying institutional factors and organizational cultures. This article seeks to examine the level of inclusion and the connection between inclusion and effort in the…
Overcoming the Digital Divide in Developing Countries
The emergence of information communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries has been hailed as a major step toward a solution to the problem of the underdevelopment of many of them. Obstacles such as corruption, delays in service delivery, lack of public sector accountability, and so on can many believe be overcome with ICT: particularly, the Internet and cell or mobile phones. Consequently, governments in these countries continue to e…
The “illusion” of administrative sovereignty in developing countries
The emergence of transnational administrations and their influence on domestic affairs of countries have led to the questioning of the notion of administrative sovereignty. Yet, the question of whether countries have this sovereignty and how it should be understood is to be fully resolved and the debate continues unabated. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by focusing on whether countries from the developing south, are and can be admini…
Has the Bubble Finally Burst? A Comparative Examination of the Failure of Privatization of Water Services Delivery in Atlanta (USA) and Hamilton (Canada)
The last few years have witnessed significant attempts by a number of municipalities across the globe to reverse private sector involvement in water services delivery to citizens, with examples across North America, Europe, as well as in some developing countries. What makes this reversal of private sector participation in water services delivery baffle many is that, in the not too distance past, private sector involvement in water delivery was t…
The politics of public policy termination in Ghana
Policy termination is assumed to be a rational or ideological exercise in which a policy is done away with, as demonstrated in most developed countries. Unfortunately, this does not seem to stand up to further scrutiny in developing countries, as some scholars wonder whether developing countries make policies or are just bandwagoners in the first place. Be that as it may, policy termination still takes place in these countries. How, then, can one…
Employee engagement and task performance in state‐owned enterprises in developing countries
A growing number of studies prove a relationship between employee engagement (EE) and performance. Unfortunately, almost all originate in the developed world; the few that look at developing countries, including their public sectors, have focused more on the civil service and agencies, and neglect state‐owned enterprises (SOEs), despite their importance for delivery of public services. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of EE on t…
Implementing a Revenue Authority Model of Tax Administration in Ghana
The desire to increase domestic revenue mobilization has made tax reform a priority for governments in many developing countries. Addressing the tax problem, however, is often a complex process that involves reforming the tax system, as well as setting up effective administrative structures to administer that system. Many see the revenue authority (RA) model as the solution to these problems. Developing an RA model in Ghana began in the mid 1980s…
The new Charter System in Ghana
Public services delivery has been at the forefront of public sector reforms in many countries throughout the past three decades. Invariably, the desire is to do more with less, empower citizens, enhance transparency, and hold public servants accountable. Many countries have therefore developed a number of service delivery mechanisms over the years to achieve this objective. A good example is the Citizen’s Charter System. First developed in the Un…
Getting the state right
Private research institutions, commonly referred to as think tanks, are a recent phenomenon in the Ghanaian policy environment. They are part of a growing number of NGOs that have emerged with Ghana's political liberalisation and are attempting to influence policymaking. These institutions exert a greater influence on policies affecting the functioning of the 'administrative state' than other NGOs. Through their efforts, ideas pertaining to admin…
Constraints in the Implementation of Performance Management Systems in Developing Countries
Performance management has become a key element in modern public sector governance. As a result, many developing countries have introduced it as a means to measure organizational and individual efficiency in order to ensure that public sector organizations meet the needs of the public. However, the implementation of performance management systems in many of these countries has been affected by a number of institutional and capacity constraints su…
The new Charter System in Ghana
Public services delivery has been at the forefront of public sector reforms in many countries throughout the past three decades. Invariably, the desire is to do more with less, empower citizens, enhance transparency, and hold public servants accountable. Many countries have therefore developed a number of service delivery mechanisms over the years to achieve this objective. A good example is the Citizen’s Charter System. First developed in the Un…
Has the Bubble Finally Burst? A Comparative Examination of the Failure of Privatization of Water Services Delivery in Atlanta (USA) and Hamilton (Canada)
The last few years have witnessed significant attempts by a number of municipalities across the globe to reverse private sector involvement in water services delivery to citizens, with examples across North America, Europe, as well as in some developing countries. What makes this reversal of private sector participation in water services delivery baffle many is that, in the not too distance past, private sector involvement in water delivery was t…
Implementing a Revenue Authority Model of Tax Administration in Ghana
The desire to increase domestic revenue mobilization has made tax reform a priority for governments in many developing countries. Addressing the tax problem, however, is often a complex process that involves reforming the tax system, as well as setting up effective administrative structures to administer that system. Many see the revenue authority (RA) model as the solution to these problems. Developing an RA model in Ghana began in the mid 1980s…
Performance management and “undesirable” organizational behaviour
Performance management ( PM ) is a major administrative mechanism for assessing efficiency and effectiveness, and for exacting accountability from organizations and individuals. Many have argued, however, that using PM in such ways creates perverse incentives and may lead to undesirable behaviours, such as the obstruction of accurate performance measurement in an effort to avoid public mortification. By examining the introduction of standardized …
Overcoming the Digital Divide in Developing Countries
The emergence of information communication technologies (ICTs) in developing countries has been hailed as a major step toward a solution to the problem of the underdevelopment of many of them. Obstacles such as corruption, delays in service delivery, lack of public sector accountability, and so on can many believe be overcome with ICT: particularly, the Internet and cell or mobile phones. Consequently, governments in these countries continue to e…
Neither public nor private
The New Public Management emerged in the 1980s, and with it, alternative service delivery ( ASD ) mechanisms, which removed service delivery from the public bureaucracy and separated policy making from policy implementation. Most western governments implemented measures including privatization or contracting out of service delivery to the private sector. By the mid‐1990s, many governments started reversing ASD policies and sought new ways to deli…
Building Resilient Organizations for Effective Service Delivery in Developing Countries
Public organizations in developing countries can only be effective if they are able to develop and implement public policies effectively and efficiently. However, what continues to bother scholars is how to ensure that such bureaucratic organizations are also accountable and democratic. Some have argued that the solution lies with the building of merit-based organizations. Nevertheless, we believe that a critical factor in building efficient orga…
One way traffic
Civil Society and Policy Making in Developing Countries
Not long ago, the number of think tanks in Ghana began to increase steadily. These organizations have now carved out a niche as repositories of ideas for government to tap when formulating and implementing good policies for development. Unfortunately, while their role in the policy making process is well accepted, whether they actually have a substantial impact on policy outcomes is as yet undetermined. In this paper, we will examine the impact o…
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling
Ghanaian women have made, and continue to make, considerable progress on their journey to the upper echelons of the decision-making institutions of the country. However, the overall number of women in decision-making positions, especially in the civil service, is distressingly small. At the end of 2011, for example, of 36 positions available only six were filled by women, as chief directors of a ministry. What is being witnessed in the civil serv…
The conundrum of absenteeism in the Canadian public service
Absenteeism has received increasing attention in public sectors across the world. In Canada's federal public service, absenteeism cost the government approximately $871 million in lost wages in 2013 alone (Barkel 2014a ). Current and previous Canadian governments have attempted to reform sick‐leave policy to reduce absenteeism, but simple solutions to a complex problem will likely result in negative and unforeseen consequences. This article conce…
Employee engagement and task performance in state‐owned enterprises in developing countries
A growing number of studies prove a relationship between employee engagement (EE) and performance. Unfortunately, almost all originate in the developed world; the few that look at developing countries, including their public sectors, have focused more on the civil service and agencies, and neglect state‐owned enterprises (SOEs), despite their importance for delivery of public services. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of EE on t…
Employee perception of inclusivity and organizational performance
Inclusion has moved to the forefront of human resource management in both public and private sector organizations around the world. A fractured research literature has arisen from a succession of diversity policies, contradictory findings, competing goals, contested definitions, and varying institutional factors and organizational cultures. This article seeks to examine the level of inclusion and the connection between inclusion and effort in the…
Provide our basic needs or we go out”
The effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic cuts across every facet of a nation’s life. The near collapse of economies with the attendant job losses has brought forth the need for effective social policies, particularly in developing countries, that can serve citizens in dire need. Consequently, many of these countries have had to craft emergency social policies to help their citizens. Ghana is no exception. While measures to contr…
The “illusion” of administrative sovereignty in developing countries
The emergence of transnational administrations and their influence on domestic affairs of countries have led to the questioning of the notion of administrative sovereignty. Yet, the question of whether countries have this sovereignty and how it should be understood is to be fully resolved and the debate continues unabated. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by focusing on whether countries from the developing south, are and can be admini…
The Failure to Learn Lessons from Policy Failures in Developing Countries? The Case of Electricity Privatization in Ghana
Do policy makers learn from their failures? The rational and normal expectation would be that they do, but experience shows otherwise. Notwithstanding the valuable and multiply expected learning opportunities presented by such failures, especially in Africa, policy errors continue unabated in both the developed and developing worlds. Even the high-profile nature of the failures across the continent seems insufficient to convince African policy ma…
Towards a paradigm shift in social protection in developing countries? Analysing the emergence of the Ghana national unemployment insurance scheme from a multiple streams perspective
The COVID 19 pandemic continues to cause a lot of uncertainty around the world. At the onset of the pandemic, governments responded with policies and programs to curb its devastating effects on citizens, and Ghana was no exception. Although the Ghanaian government introduced various stop-gap measures to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, the inadequacies of the extant social welfare system was badly exposed. Consequently, as the pandemic seeth…
The State of Policy Capacity Problems in Africa
Why is policy capacity still a problem after years of capacity‐building initiatives in Africa? Many African states continue to lack policy capacity. Despite recognizing the limited policy capacity issues on the continent and all the capacity‐development initiatives that continue to take place, there has been a dearth of theorizing as to why this problem persists. How then can one explain the apparent dilemma? The failure to theorize policy capaci…
Collaborative governance in social protection programs in developing countries
Social protection has increasingly become a central tool of governments to deal with vulnerabilities and poverty in society. In the context of policy and governance challenges, there has been a shift from a governance approach that focused extensively on governmental actors to one involving a multiplicity of actors in a process of collaborative governance. However, limited studies have been conducted in terms of how stakeholders have been collabo…
Policy termination revisited
This article revisits the concept of policy termination, a largely overlooked yet critical phase in the policy process. While early policy cycle models included termination as a distinct stage, contemporary frameworks often omit it, reflecting its marginalization in policy scholarship. This article argues for the renewed relevance of policy termination, distinguishing it from related concepts like policy dismantling, and framing it as a specific …
Central–Local Government Relationship, Digital Technology, and Property Tax Administration in Developing Countries
The politics of public policy termination in Ghana
Policy termination is assumed to be a rational or ideological exercise in which a policy is done away with, as demonstrated in most developed countries. Unfortunately, this does not seem to stand up to further scrutiny in developing countries, as some scholars wonder whether developing countries make policies or are just bandwagoners in the first place. Be that as it may, policy termination still takes place in these countries. How, then, can one…
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