Development Agenda

The Rotary Club of Accra-Cantonment is to rehabilitate children wards of the three psychiatric hospitals in the country. The hospitals are Accra, Pantang, and Ankaful Psychiatric hospitals. The initiative forms part of the club’s flagship project for the 2019-2020 Rotary Year.  A statement issued by the Club said the goal of the project was to improve the standard of healthcare services ...

Developing countries need to dramatically increase agricultural innovation and the use of technology by farmers, to eliminate poverty, meet the rising demand for food, and cope with the adverse effects of climate change, says a new World Bank report released on Monday. The relative stagnation in agricultural productivity in recent decades, particularly in South Asia and Africa where the vast ...

A child-centred organisation, Child Rights International ( CRI), has called on the state to use the case of the four Takoradi girls to come up with reforms that will specifically spell out the guidelines on how issues of child kidnapping and child violence must be handled. According to the organisation, the way the issue had been handled from the beginning ...

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 ...