Development Agenda

The number of people fleeing war, persecution and conflict exceeded 70 million in 2018, UN High Commissioner on Refuge (UNHCR) has said. This is the highest level the UN Refugee Agency has seen in its 68 years of existence. Data from UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report, released Wednesday, shows that almost 70.8 million people are now forcibly displaced. To put this in ...

African governments have been implored to protect and promote the rights of children during humanitarian emergencies as a key to achieving the outcome of the Agenda 2063 which is Africa’s version of the Sustainable Development Goals. Mr Eric Adu, the Deputy Bono Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) made the appeal when he spoke at a ...

Sightsavers and her global partners including the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD) on Monday 10th June, 2019, launched a petition at the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, held at UN headquarters in New York, calling for disability rights to be upheld by the UN and its member States. ...

The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture has encouraged Ghana to establish a National Preventive Mechanism against Torture (NPM) in order to ensure that persons deprived of liberty are not at risk of ill-treatment. “Ghana ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture in 2016 and should have established its NPM by the end of 2017. It has ...

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection through the Department of Children, Ghana Refugee Board, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, UNICEF, Plan Ghana and other Partners join the African community to wish all children in Ghana a happy Day of the African Child. The celebration of the Day of the African Child (DAC) is a reminder for us to ...

Ghana’s development partners have raised concerns about poverty and issues of inequality and stated that if they are not addressed, they can become conduits for extremism and instability in the country, particularly in the northern part of Ghana. According to the partners, Ghana must put in place pragmatic measures to address the increasing level of poverty and inequalities in northern ...

Mrs Samira Bawumia, the Second Lady, has called on Ghanaians to commit to making changes and decisions that will positively impact on the environment and make it safe for all. She said as Ghana joined the global community to celebrate World Environment Day this year, people could improve on their lives by using clean, safe and efficient cook stoves that ...

The Acting National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), has disclosed that from early part of June 2019, caterers and cooks would undergo intensive training and capacity building, to sharpen their cooking skills. The training Dr Gertrude Quashigah indicated, would enable the caterers to improve on the nutritional, hygiene and quality standards in the preparation of meals for ...

One of the critical issues currently confronting the youth of Ghana is the limited attention that parents and guardians are giving to them, Dr Felix Addo-Yebo, Director of Policy Division at the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), has said. He said in interactions with the youth, some of them had expressed concern about the little attention from their parents, who ...

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has called for the reinforcement and promotion of the participation of women in conflict resolution and peace sustenance. He made this call during the closing ceremony of a Training of Trainers Workshop on ‘Building Women’s Capacities for Conflict Analysis and Conflict Prevention ...