By Adele Beasley The African Women’s Entrepreneurship Programme (AWEP) Ghana chapter has resolved to hold an exhibition of its goods and work with the NGO, Volunteer Partnerships for West Africa (VPWA) to sell products internationally. At the third membership meeting on Thursday, May 10, led by AWEP-Ghana Chairperson Comfort Adjahoe-Jennings, the local members who make [...]
By Christopher Majaliwa THE United Nations has set a budget of over 700 million US dollars (about 1.1 trillion/-) to support Tanzania address various social and economic challenges facing the country. The four-year programme (2011 – 2015) is part of UN Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP) and would be directed to priority areas in the country’s [...]
By Gloria A. Iribagiza Several schoolchildren playing cricket, some on standby to score some runs with their bats while others are so keen on chasing after yellow balls to catch them mid-air, is quite a sight at the dust-filled Kicukiro Oval grounds in Kigali. The children are some of the over 2,000 children who have [...]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting innovators to send letters of inquiry for the following opportunity: Reinvent The Toilet Challenge — RTTC (round 2) We are calling for a new set of innovative ideas to support our effort to reinvent the toilet. Grants will be awarded to exceptionally highly-qualified research groups interested [...]
The goal of the Trellis Fund is to link graduate students in the U.S. to agricultural NGOs/universities/government and research agencies in developing countries, and enable these organizations to disseminate novel ideas to 2,700 farmers worldwide. The Trellis Fund will offer $2,000 contracts to the Developing World Organization (DWO) to extend horticultural research to local farmers [...]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is pleased to announce that we are now accepting nominations for the second annual Gates Vaccine Innovation Awardto celebrate and spur transformative ideas for achieving impact through immunization. The foundation will recognize the winning innovation with a US $250,000 prize. The 2012 Gates Vaccine Innovation Award recognized [...]
IMANI has taken note of recent publications in the local and international financial press which appear to suggest that Ghana is poised to earn approximately $1 billion per annum from natural gas production once the ongoing gas harvesting and processing facilities come on stream. We do not believe that this is very plausible in the [...]
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong In Ghana/Africa, some development projects could be difficult to discharge when it is entangled in rigid traditional beliefs. In some places, such as Kumasi, capital of the Asante Region and Ghana’s second largest city, traditional beliefs clash with development projects. Taxi drivers, whose illegal parking lots are being reclaimed for re-developed [...]
Mr. Moses Asaga, Minister for Employment and Social Welfare, has called on all stakeholders to help fight against the worst form of child labour, especially in the cocoa growing areas in the country. The Minister said it should be a collective effort to save children from the murderous clutches of social injustice and educational deprivation, [...]
The birth of tens of thousands of children during Côte d’Ivoire’s eight-year rebellion were not formally recorded. Providing these children with birth certificates is one of the mundane yet vital challenges facing the authorities as they work to re-establish the country’s public administration. While many families take a lax attitude towards registering new babies, [...]
…Powered By MasterCard, INSEAD & UN MasterCard Worldwide in association with Singapore Committee for UN Women and the academic partner INSEAD, are calling for youth change makers worldwide to submit their pitch ideas for Project Inspire: 5 Minutes to Change the World. PROJECT INSPIRE is a competition that is open to young women from [...]
Private donors are growing steadily more important to global aid, contributing one-quarter of the estimated US$73.9 billion spent on emergency assistance from 2006 to 2010. Among the favourable factors in private funding are independence from the political motivations of donors, being able to react fast, and the opportunity to focus on forgotten crises. But the [...]
The dilemma for Atati Faustin, 13, from Faradje in Haut-Uélé District, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is that although he misses his younger brother – abducted into the ranks of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) two years ago – he is also afraid of being reunited with him. “I want my brother back,” he [...]
Over 2,000 Liberian refugees in Ghana have indicated their willingness to remain legal residents of the country. The Ghana Refugee Board (GRB) and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have consequently registered 2,300 who want to legalise their stay in Ghana. The registration followed an ultimatum given to the refugees by the UNHCR [...]
Mai-Aini Refugee Camp — Gebre* knew the dangers as well as any 13-year-old. He understood that to be captured fleeing his country by the Eritrean border guards could mean jail or worse. And anyone taking the route to Ethiopia via Sudan could be held for ransom. But what was certain was that soon Gebre would [...]
Rakai — Sitting on an old mattress in front of a small house in Kimukunda village in the Rakai District of southern Uganda, Teddy Nakawoeisi, 60, is waiting for her grandchildren to bring home something for supper. Between the ages of 4 and 8 years, they are at a nearby farm – working as daily [...]
Harare — Maria Saungweme, 42, an informal trader and single mother from the low-income suburb of Glen Norah in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, uses sewage-infested river water to irrigate her two-acre vegetable plot. “I am not proud to say this, but I consider the sewage that is offloaded into the river a blessing because it [...]
Global campaign against malaria also creates opportunities for South African township communities (Cape Town, South Africa – April 2012) In the run-up to World Malaria Day on 25 April 2012, the South African division of the global partnership, United Against Malaria (UAM), is intensifying fundraising efforts to purchase life-saving mosquito nets and reduce malaria deaths [...]
As Senegal celebrates its second democratic transfer of power, and Mali copes with the aftermath of a military coup which ended 20 years of democratic rule, Africa Research Institute’s latest briefing note places these seismic political events in a regional context. Diehards and democracy: Elites, inequality and institutions in African elections examines the essential traits [...]
By David Kiarie A media organization in Kenya has expressed concern over the rising cases of journalists’ harassment in the country. The Kenya Correspondents Association (KCA) leadership said it is worried over the increasing threats and intimidation of journalists across the country in the course of their work and warns that this will greatly affect [...]
Dzaleka — Sanky Kabeya, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has spent half of his 24 years in Dzaleka refugee camp in central Malawi. He attended primary and secondary school in the camp but, after graduating, his dream of furthering his education seemed an impossible one. “I was just staying at home [...]
Vice President Joyce Banda was sworn in Saturday as Malawi’s first woman president, and the third female head of state in Africa. Her predecessor, 78-year-old President Bingu wa Mutharika, died suddenly Thursday from a heart attack, the Associated Press reports. The constitution of Malawi states that should the president die, the vice president should take office [...]
Geneva — A panel of democratically-elected representatives from around the world committed to advocating for vaccines and immunisation on Tuesday, recognising that the technology is cost-effective in reducing maternal and child mortality. The commitment was a key outcome from a panel discussion on tackling vaccine-preventable disease. The discussion was hosted by Uganda’s National Assembly on [...]
WaterAid Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation dedicated to the provision of safe drinking water, has outdoored seven personalities as Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Ambassadors to help promote water safety in Ghana. The seven personalities include Nana Kobina Nketia V, the Paramount Chief of Essikado Traditional Area; Shamima Muslim, a Journalist with Citi fm in Accra; [...]
Ilorin — The Baseline Household Survey conducted by the Nigeria Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) has revealed that more than 75 per cent of women in Kwara State don’t use modern contraceptives for family planning due to wrong perceptions. The perception as highlighted include need to have more children, lack of spouse’s permission, fear of [...]
Accra Ghana 2nd April 2012.The Ghana Angel Investor Network (GAIN) held its first Business Pitch Session on 27th March, 2012 at the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel. The Pitch Session was attended by Members of GAIN who are referred to as Business Angels. GAIN is a high-powered network of successful entrepreneurs and business executives who have made [...]
A Ghanaian Social Entrepreneur, Hayford Siaw has been selected along Felix Uzor and Sharron Nestor as Playmakers for 2012. The selection by Playing for Change, a non-profit organization founded by Kinnevik-Sweden, supports social entrepreneurs who improve the lives of children and youth. Kinnevik believe that the best way to create a social change is to [...]
IMANI Center for Policy & Education is a Think Tank of considerable local and international repute and significance. We have carved a niche in Ghana’s policy environment for putting out objective, independent analysis and critique on many issues, using tried and tested techniques that apply across different disciplines. Through effective communication skills and the ability [...]
The non-governmental organization CARE International in Liberia (CARE) is currently expanding its work around the promotion of inclusive and accountable governance in Liberia. The organization says it feels that civic education, as a means to enable ‘effective citizenship’, lies at the heart of this endeavour. Against this backdrop, CARE is running the Training of Trainers [...]
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