Development Agenda

Concern are being raised over delays in release and disbursement of funds for the 61st cycle Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) payments to beneficiaries across the country. While bemoaning on the delays, it has also emerged that approximately 30,000 LEAP households with over 125,000 beneficiaries in 10 districts across the country, were not paid their LEAP cash grants during the ...

A total of 332 human traffickers were investigated between 2016 and 2018 across the country. Out of the number, only 53 were prosecuted and 30 others still have their dockets at the Attorney General’s department. Of the 53 prosecuted, 18 were convicted using the Human Trafficking Act, 15 others were prosecuted with the Children’s Act and the remaining 17 were ...

Partners at the just ended Commonwealth Speaker Series are urging government to find solutions to poverty, youth unemployment, lack of inclusivity which are the triggers of the twin-disaster of kidnapping and terrorism. In a communiqué issued in Accra after the series, the partners, including, the National Security ministry, High Commissions of Canada, Australia and South Africa, as well as the ...

Kumasi, Ghana – Jennifer* has spent the last few weeks on the pavements of Vienna City, a hub in Kumasi, Ghana’s second-largest city, [Ahodwo roundabout to Golden Tulip junction] which has a bustling nightlife. She arrived in Ghana in May, having left a crowded hostel room in Lagos, Nigeria, hoping to secure work in sales or as a waitress and ...

Children selected from different schools in Accra, have called for the standardisation of schools in rural areas to help improve their welfare and development. They also want the creation of play centres and also for government to remove the tax on sanitary pads. The children made the appeal to government when Ghana through the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social ...

Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) in-charge of professional development, Ms Gifty Apanbil, on Thursday said lack of innovation in the educational sector is affecting the delivery of quality teaching. “Some people will want to be innovative but our system is such that it does not allow innovation and once it does not allow innovation, ...

Mr Bright Appiah, the Executive Director of Child Rights International (CRI), a non-governmental organisation, has lauded Ghana’s child rights policies and interventions that seek to protect the fundamental human rights and privileges of children in the country.   He, however, emphasised the importance of effective implementation of the policies to make a significant impact in the upbringing and development of ...

Africa’s poorest countries saw little to no progress on average in improving the quality of their policy and institutional frameworks in 2018, according to the World Bank’s annual Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) released yesterday July 31. The average CPIA score in Africa’s 38 International Development Association (IDA)-eligible countries in 2018 remained unchanged at 3.1 on a scale of ...

Three main coalitions on women’s rights and gender equality in Ghana, namely: The Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT); The Women’s Manifesto Coalition (WMC); and the Domestic Violence Coalition (DVC), have sounded an alarm bell on the rise of misogyny, ethnic sentiments, hate speech and incitement to hatred, in recent times made by some religious leaders and public figures. ...

ABANTU for Development, a women’s rights advocacy organization has urged Ghanaians to consider voting massively for women candidate in the upcoming district level election to be held in November 2019. Abantu is of the view that facilitating the election of more marginalized citizens, especially women into districts assemblies in the upcoming election 2019 will not only be fair and just ...