Development Agenda

In a bid to reignite its Water and Sanitation campaign, the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) has attended and participated in this year’s Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA) and World Urban Forum 12 (WUF12) Assembly in Cairo Egypt. The events, which begun on November 2nd – 7th, 2024, was programmed to thoroughly discuss  Resilient Sanitation and Water Services – How African ...

Climate talks at COP29 in Baku on Wednesday turned to the pressing issue of how to manage the demand for minerals essential to producing electric vehicles and solar panels without triggering a “stampede of greed” that exploits local communities and crushes the poor.  “We are here to respond to a key challenge: turning the energy transition towards justice,” said UN Secretary-General António ...

ABANTU for Development, a leading Women’s rights advocacy Organization in Ghana on Wednesday, November 6, 2024,launched  a  project dubbed “Strengthening Capacities on Gender Equality and Socially Inclusive Ghana’s Elections 2024 and Beyond”.   Sponsored by STAR-Ghana Foundation with funding from the UK’s Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Office, the project seeks to among other things increase the participation and representation of women, ...

Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has criticised the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) for allegedly prioritising developments in regions based on their electoral support. He argues that this approach neglects areas that did not favour the NPP in elections, suggesting it undermines equitable development across the country. Mahama made these remarks during his tour of ...

Despite decades of educational progress and international commitments, a quarter of a billion children and youth remain out of school worldwide, UN education agency UNESCO’s latest Global Education Monitoring Report revealed on Thursday.  The findings reveal that global efforts to ensure universal education have hit a concerning plateau, with the out-school population reducing by only 1 percent in nearly 10 years. Progress and ...

The latest edition of the Afrobarometer Report compiled by the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) has revealed that 82% of Ghanaians surveyed said the country is headed in the wrong direction. The figure represents five percentage decrease compared to 2023 when 87 percent were of the view that Ghana was badly being managed. The 2024 report is titled, ” Citizens’ ...

Speakers at the Second Edition of Ghana Philanthropy Conference have emphasized the importance of collective giving, trust-building, and creation of sustainable support structures for a stable society in Ghana. At the opening of the two-day Conference in Accra  on Wednesday, October 30TH , various speakers advocated  a shift towards a more unified and discreet philanthropic approach to ensuring that contributions ...

Proposed actions by countries to mitigate the worsening impacts of climate change “fall miles short of what is needed,” according to a major UN report has revealed on Monday. UN climate change secretariat (UNFCCC)’s 2024 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Synthesis Report showed that current plans would result in emissions 51.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent by 2030 – just 2.6 per ...

More than one in three of the world’s trees are in danger of extinction according to a new report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), threatening life on Earth as we know it. It said the number of endangered trees is more than double the number of all threatened birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians combined. The organisation’s ...

Former Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu has called for the elimination of the “winner-takes-all” system from Ghana’s political framework. He believes that this system, which grants the winning party disproportionate control, hinders the development of an inclusive and participatory democracy. His call for reform follows a stakeholder workshop organised by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, where discussions on potential constitutional amendments ...