Development Agenda

In an effort to reduce poverty and foster local development, the Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC) in collaboration with the African-Asian Rural Development Organization (AARDO), have launched a project to enhance financial access for women and other vulnerable groups in the Sagnarigu Municipality of the Northern Region. The initiative focuses on improving the quality of life in five communities within ...

A sobering report released by UN Women and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Monday reveals that in 2023, 140 women and girls died every day at the hands of their partner or a close relative, which means one woman killed every 10 minutes.  Released on the 25th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, ...

The latest African Economic Outlook released by the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has detected what it describes as desynchronization between economic growth performance and sustainable development which suggests that Africa’s current development model is not fit for purpose. According to the document,  The  Existing  Development  Model, which relies heavily on resource extraction without value addition,  urgently requires a complete ...

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 ...