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Emmanuel Kumi

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CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
DepartmentCENTRE FOR SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES SECRETARIAT
NGOsCivil SocietyDevelopment AidPhilanthropyInternational Development
Publications

80

Citations

1,567

H-index

20

i10-index

27

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
19.6
Most cited paper
243
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
13 Sep 2026, 22:31
Publications

80 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
Northern NGO-centrism in localisation processes: reproducing power inequities in the aid field
G van Selm, B Bukenya, I Kamya, E Kumi, T Yeboah, N Banks, W Elbers, ...
2025 Development in Practice, 1-11, 2025 Humanities 10
Where do we go from here? Navigating power inequalities between development NGOs in the aid system
N Banks, B Bukenya, WJ Elbers, I Kamya, E Kumi, LWM Schulpen, ...
2024 Amsterdam: Partos, 2024 Humanities 10
Can domestic resource mobilisation by civil society organisations (CSOs) open up civic space in the Global South?
E Kumi, R Hayman
2025 Development in Practice 35 (4), 669-687, 2025 Humanities 9
The Impact of Using Mother Tongue as Instructional Language in Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Rural Primary Schools (A Case Study of Four Selected Schools in Sefwi …
A Karikari, EO Kumi, EA Achiaa, J Adu
2022 International Journal of Novel Research in Education and Learning 9 (1), 26-38, 2022 Humanities 9
Negotiating organizational access as a multifaceted process: Comparative research experiences with three advocacy NGOs in Kenya
T Saharan, M Matelski, E Kumi
2021 International Journal of Qualitative Methods 20, 16094069211012593, 2021 Humanities 8
Power and its discontents: The long road to systemic change in the aid sector
N Banks, B Bukenya, W Elbers, I Kamya, E Kumi, L Schulpen, G van Selm, ...
2026 World Development 200, 107259, 2026 Humanities 7
Post-COVID economic crisis, citizen-state relations, and the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) controversy in Ghana
KT Asante, E Kumi, M Kodom
2024 World Development Perspectives 35, 100621, 2024 Social Sciences 7
Why national development experts are not included in development policy‐making and practice: The case of Ghana
P Kamruzzaman, E Kumi
2023 Development Policy Review 41 (2), e12656, 2023 Humanities 7
Aid volatility and structural economic transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa: does finance matter?
E Kumi, M Ibrahim, T Yeboah
2017 SSRN, 2017 Social Sciences 7
Understanding local NGOs' sustainability in Ghana: does organisational capacity and scope matter?
E Kumi, DB Osei, A Tsiboe-Darko
2025 Journal of Civil Society 21 (4), 387-407, 2025 Humanities 6
Female labor force participation, infrastructure, and sectoral value additions in sub-Saharan Africa
T Yeboah, E Kumi, M Ibrahim
2022 The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors, 867-894, 2022 Social Sciences 5
Shifting the Narrative: Localization and ‘shift the power’ in the African context
E Kumi, T Yeboah, NK Kusi, JC Fomunjong, CK Vandyck
2023 Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development, 190-204, 2023 Humanities 4
Catalyzing development: Towards enabling rules for advocacy
WJ Elbers, LWM Schulpen, P Kamau, EC Frobisher, E Kumi, T Saharan
2019 Leiden; Nijmegen: African Studies Centre and CAOS, Radboud University, 2019 Humanities 4
A Critical Reflection on the Contributions and Barriers of Local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to National Development in Ghana
E Kumi, SK Amoah, A Tsiboe-Darko
2026 Forum for Development Studies 53 (2), 283-313, 2026 Social Sciences 3
Local NGOs’ added value and the unintended consequences of the aid localisation agenda in Ghana
E Kumi, MAS Adam, P Kamruzzaman, A Tsiboe-Darko
2026 Development in Practice, 1-13, 2026 Humanities 3
Surreptitious symbiosis in promoting advocacy? Collaboration among non-governmental organizations, social movements, and activists in West Africa
E Kumi, A Arhin
2023 Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development, 162-176, 2023 Social Sciences 3
Global wealth disparities drive adherence to COVID-safe pathways in head and neck cancer surgery
2021 BJS open 5 (6), zrab112, 2021 Health Sciences 3
Country report 2020: Ghana
E Kumi
2020 Humanities 3
Do microfinance schemes shape gender relations in developing countries? Insights from a critical review of the literature
T Yeboah, E Kumi, AA Arhin
2015 International Journal of Gender Studies in Developing Societies 1 (2), 135-156, 2015 Social Sciences 3
Participation in and implementation of continuous professional development learning into classroom practice: Challenges faced by teachers
NM Parry, EO Kumi
2026 International Journal of Didactical Studies 7 (2), e40662, 2026 Humanities 2
‘The youth are not given a listening ear’: A critical analysis of the contributions of youth-led civil society organisations to Africa’s development
E Kumi, T Yeboah, E Edudzie
2025 World Development Perspectives 39, 100711, 2025 Humanities 2
Findings from a Scoping Study on Mapping African Philanthropic Foundations in Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon
E Kumi
2022 CAPSI Research Report. RR7, 1–14. Johannesburg: CAPSI, 2022 Humanities 2
Localisation agenda, shift the power and African philanthropic models in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal
E Kumi, TY Yeboah, N Afadzinu, J Hodgson, E Emerhi, C Vandyck, ...
2021 West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), 2021 Humanities 2
Arhin and Thomas Yeboah,‘Can post-2015 sustainable development goals survive neoliberalism? A critical examination of the sustainable development-nexus in developing countries …
E Kumi, A Albert
1900 Environment Development and Sustainability 16, 539-554, 0 Humanities 2
Civil society organisations and disability-inclusive employment: perspectives from leaders of organisations of persons with disabilities in Ghana
FL Appiah, E Kumi, A Tsiboe-Darko, SK Amoah
2026 Disability & Society 41 (4), 1106-1136, 2026 Humanities 1