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Strengthening Inclusive Education in Ghana

Strengthening Inclusive Education in Ghana

Strengthening Inclusive Education in Ghana Ghana’s education system is considered to be one of the most progressive in Africa. In 2004 the government introduced free compulsory education for the first nine years of school for all Ghanaian children with the initiative...

Changing the Paradigm of Illegal Galamsey in Ghana

Changing the Paradigm of Illegal Galamsey in Ghana

Changing the Paradigm of Illegal Galamsey in Ghana Small-scale mining activities in Ghana date back more than 2000 years, with evidence of gold mining as far back as the seventh and eighth centuries. It also accounts for the colonial name of the country “The Gold...

COVID-19: The Ghana Case

COVID-19: The Ghana Case

COVID-19: The Ghana Case The 23rd June 2020 marked exactly 100 days since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ghana. Before the formal announcement (13th March 2020) of the first two cases in Ghana involving returning residents from Norway and Turkey,...

Urban Poverty and our Collective Safety

Urban Poverty and our Collective Safety

Urban Poverty and our Collective Safety Slums and Informal Settlements in cities across Africa - The Ghana Case A publication by the Cities Alliance states that policymakers and leaders should see investments in the improvement of slums as investments in public...

Economic Development Pathways for Local Area Development

Economic Development Pathways for Local Area Development

Economic Development Pathways for Local Area Development Ghana currently has 260 districts under its local governance structure and these districts are to bring development closer to the people. The administrations of the districts, formally referred to...

Making Local Economic Development (LED) work in Ghana

Making Local Economic Development (LED) work in Ghana

Making Local Economic Development (LED) work in Ghana Local Economic Development (LED) currently, has no unified definition and development practitioners, international institutions and researchers have diverse perspectives on LED. The different operational definitions on...

Challenges and gaps, but many gains

Challenges and gaps, but many gains

The African Union’ s Maputo Protocol provides member states with a comprehensive policy framework for ensuring women’ s rights across the continent In 2003, the African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of...

GGA Reporter
COVID-19: The Ghana Case

COVID-19: The Ghana Case

COVID-19: The Ghana Case The 23rd June 2020 marked exactly 100 days since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ghana. Before the formal announcement (13th March 2020) of the first two cases in Ghana involving returning residents from Norway and Turkey,...

Challenges and gaps, but many gains

Challenges and gaps, but many gains

The African Union’ s Maputo Protocol provides member states with a comprehensive policy framework for ensuring women’ s rights across the continent In 2003, the African Union adopted the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of...