Development Agenda

Closing the major gender gap in innovation and technology is the focus of the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which opened at UN Headquarters in New York on Monday.  Over the next two weeks, participants from across the world – including representatives from governments, the UN, civil society and youth groups, as well as ...

The Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Northern Development Authority (NDA), Sumaila Abdul-Rahman has resigned from his position. The Special Prosecutor dragged Sumaila Abdul–Rahman, and his two deputies –Mr. Stephen Yir-eru Engmen and Mr. Patrick Seidu– to court over alleged procurement breaches. The outgoing NDA CEO explained that his resignation would allow the ongoing judicial process to take place ...

The global pace of reforms toward equal treatment of women under the law has slumped to a 20-year low, constituting a potential impediment to economic growth at a critical time for the global economy, a new World Bank report shows. In 2022, the global average score on the World Bank’s Women, Business, and the Law index rose just half a point to ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has issued a warning to heads of Senior High Schools who charge first-year students unapproved fees. It said such heads will be sanctioned because the acts are illegal and will not be tolerated. Parents have complained about unapproved fees levied by school administrators and items not approved in the prospectus for new students. Cassandra Twum ...

President Akufo-Addo has launched the Ghana Education Outcome Project (GEOP) at a special ceremony in Accra. The project is aimed at returning 70,000 out-of-school children back into the classroom as well as improving learning outcomes in over 600 GALOP schools in 29 districts in the country. Held on the theme, ”Getting all children educated through support to schools and communities”, ...

The  Ghana  Integrity initiative is rolling out the  Second  Phase of its Land and Corruption in Africa Project – LCA II, which seeks to ensure that corrupt practices in Land administration and land deals are addressed to ultimately contribute to improved livelihood of men and women in  Ghana and Africa in general. The project, which spans 2022-2025, builds on the ...

Newmont Corp (NEM.N) on Thursday fell short of Wall Street estimates for fourth-quarter profit, as the world’s largest gold miner struggled with lower prices and increased costs. Average realized gold prices fell 2.2% to $1,758 per ounce in the quarter from a year earlier, while the all-in-sustaining cost for gold, an industry metric that reflects total expenses associated with production, rose 15% ...

The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Ghana, Charles Abani, has entreated the government to tackle current economic difficulties in time to save the youth from falling prey to violent crimes. He made the assertion that the economic quandary was a result of the covid-19 pandemic and the unending Russian aggression, but the government must quicken its pace toward economic recovery. ...

A staggering 78 million girls and boys around the world today “don’t go to school at all” because of conflict, climate disasters and displacement – while tens of millions more receive only sporadic teaching – UN Secretary-General António Guterres said recently. Lending his support to a call for more funding for education in emergencies spearheaded by the UN global fund Education Cannot Wait (ECW) ...

Ghana and the United Kingdom (UK) have renewed their commitment to preserve and protect biodiversity. The two countries renewed their position at the Nature Action – Private Sector Mobilisation summit organised by the UK government in London last Friday. It was to catalyse and demonstrate the delivery of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The Kunming-Montreal framework is a landmark international ...