Development Agenda

Climate Change related issues are not prioritised as state and non-state actors stakeholders consider it as non- issues in spite of its devastating impact on agriculture and other sectors of the economy. ActionAid and Abantu for Development are of the view that time has come for all stakeholders to pay much attention to the distressing impact of climate change, particularly ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international non-governmental organisation has urged Ghana to establish a Mental Health Review Tribunal, a specialised quasi-judicial body to be constituted under the Mental Health Act. Such a tribunal will have a wide range of powers that would enable it to conduct mental health inquiries, make and review orders, and hear some appeals, about the treatment ...

Government’s effort towards defeating poverty and reducing inequalities among the extremely poor Ghanaians could be impeded, if unnecessary delays in the disbursement of funds to beneficiaries of LEAP continue to occur, Send-Ghana, a policy and advocacy think tank has cautioned.  “We would like to caution that Ghana risks derailing the progress made in her efforts towards defeating poverty and reducing ...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced a $1.1 billion lending programme to help women entrepreneurs on the African continent. EIB Vice President, Ambroise Fayolle, also revealed that the bank has signed three further agreements to boost sustainable development on the continent. But the major deal is what the EIB has dubbed SheInvest. The EIB expects the gender-lending initiative to ...

Environmental Health Officers at the Ayawaso North Municipal Assembly have closed down a toilet facility in a home at Mamobi in Accra. The officers found a pan latrine filled in a terrible condition and an overflowing waste paper. There was also human excreta all over the floor covered with ash. The Joy Clean Ghana Campaign team together with the officers ...

The Ghana ‘beyond aid’ policy by President Akufo-Addo has gained global attraction as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has adopted it for its policy direction for the entire African continent. The adoption was manifested in the UNDP High-Level Dialogue with African influencers held at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel, today Thursday, the 7th of November, 2019 which was themed, ...

The Minister of Communications, Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has encouraged children and the youth to be bold in reporting persons who subject them to sexual exploitation and expose them to pornographic materials and other dangers online so that the perpetrators are arrested and duly punished. She urged them to take advantage of the various Incident Reporting Points of Contact (PoC) that ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for the elimination of stigma associated with infertility in Africa. He said from being abandoned, depressed, humiliated, insulted and maltreated, women suffered the most when it came to issues of infertility. Quoting a World Health Organisation (WHO) source, the President added that “even though infertility in men is the cause of 50 per ...

A staunch critic of homosexuality, Professor Mike Oquaye, has hit hard at persons engaged in the abhorrent practice, describing them as deviants in society who should not be accorded any rights as homosexuals. The legal luminary, who is also Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament, argued that apart from the fact that persons engaged in homosexuality are humans, they “cannot have a ...

Communications Minister Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has said women who are confident, assertive and articulate are deemed to be arrogant by the public’s definition of the word which should not be so. She explained on JoyFM’s Super Morning Show, Thursday, that due to how people are socialised, some are not used to a woman who exudes confidence. To her, though, outspokenness is ...