Dr Emmanuel Yeboah-Assiamah is a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science in the University of Ghana. He has previously served as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDeG), a policy think tank in Accra. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (First Class) and a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Public Administration from the University of Ghana. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Public & Development Management from the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He has served as a TRECCAFRICA Fellow in Sustainability Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Dr Yeboah-Assiamah has also had a Post-Doctoral Training at the Global Development Institute (GDI) in the University of Manchester, UK as a GCRF Fellow. The Fellow is a verified reviewer for many reputable journals including, inter alia, the Journal of Public Affairs (published by Wiley & Sons); Journal of Asian and African Studies (published by Sage); International Journal of Public Leadership (published by Emerald); Forest Policy & Economics (Elsevier); Society & Natural Resources; Administrative Theory & Praxis; Third World Quarterly (all published by Taylor and Francis).
MIASA Project: African cities and the Sustainable Development Goals: Political Settlement Analysis of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Ghana.
The role of cities in the enforcement of respective Sustainable Development Goals cannot be overemphasized. For example, SDG 11 is focused on cities, with goals to enhance access to basic services and safe, affordable housing, improve slums, increase public transportation, encourage inclusive and sustainable urbanization, safeguard cultural and natural heritage, lower the number of disaster fatalities, and boost resilience. Ensuring these require political will to commit resources and efforts. For example, to lower the number of disaster fatalities and to boost resilience call for some drastic measures and collaborative efforts. To what extent do city authorities get poised or motivated to take required drastic measures to control human-induced disaster risks? Understanding some of these dynamics calls for political settlement analysis to examine particular policy decisions; actions and inactions of city authorities related to key SDGs.
Selected publications
Yeboah-Assiamah, E. & Mamman, A. (2023). Start Small, Dream Big: Socio-Technical Resources and Digitalization as Drivers of Firm Growth and Agility in Africa. In Combrink et al (Eds.) Africa Development Yearbook (Vol 23) “Business Opportunities, Start-ups and Digital Transformation in Africa”.
http://www.iwim.uni-bremen.de/files/dateien/1880_adpy_contents___volume_23.pdf
Yeboah-Assiamah, E., Hossain, F., Mamman, A., & Rees, C. J. (2023). On the question of entrepreneurial breakthrough or failure in Africa: a framework for analysis. African Journal of Economic and Management Studies, 14(2), 289-312.
Asamoah, K., Yeboah-Assiamah, E., Damoah, C. M., & Adu, E. P. (2022). Sounds good on paper but problematic in practice: PPP in Ghana’s transport sector. Research in Transportation Business & Management, 100682.
Yeboah-Assiamah, E., Gyekye-Jandoh, M. A. A., Asamoah, K., & Adams, S. (2022). Henceforth, We Will Never Walk Alone: Empirical Study on the Benefits of Participatory Governance and Leadership. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-24.
Asamoah, K., & Yeboah-Assiamah, E. (2019). “Ubuntu philosophy” for public leadership and governance praxis: Revisiting the ethos of Africa’s collectivism. Journal of Global Responsibility. 10 (4), 307-321. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGR-01-2019-0008
Yeboah-Assiamah, E., Muller, K., & Domfeh, K. A. (2019). Two sides of the same coin: formal and informal institutional synergy in a case study of wildlife governance in Ghana. Society & Natural Resources, 32(12), 1364-1382.
Lartey, E., Ahenkan, A., Yeboah-Assiamah, E. & Adjei-Bamfo, P. (2018). Urban Sanitation: Optimizing Private Sector Involvement. In A. Farazmand (Ed.). Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, Springer, New Delhi https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3552-1
Yeboah-Assiamah, E., Muller, K., & Domfeh, K. A. (2018). Transdisciplinary approach to natural resource governance research: a conceptual paper. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, 29(1), 15-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq-04-2016-0034
