Tuesday, October 12, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for African governments to strengthen social protection systems and fulfill people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Many African governments introduced measures like cash...
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Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
A new report released by the International Trade Union Confederation demonstrates that increased investment in social protection yields positive economic returns.
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Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Asia, Bangladesh, Georgia, India, Europe, Serbia
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Thursday, December 12, 2019
OPINION: In October, the IMF published its first working paper dedicated to unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW). Globally, women perform 76.2 per cent of the total hours of unpaid care work. While recognition of UCDW by the IMF is welcome and...
Friday, August 9, 2019
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with Vodafone Ghana Foundation has launched a digital financial inclusion project in the Upper East Region to boost poor rural women access to formal financial services and to increase...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
The Hajia Alima Mahama, says government has developed a Rural Development Policy which will serve as a guideline for coordinated service delivery and investment in rural communities. The Minister mentioned that, the Policy seeks to modernize agriculture...
Monday, November 20, 2017
Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisah Djaba has said Government is committed to ensuring that every Ghanaian child of school going age is given free, quality education from kindergarten to the Senior High School level (SHS...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Empowering rural women with resources and equipping them with skills for services and decent jobs is a driving force in the fight against poverty and hunger.
Mr Serge Nakouzi, Deputy Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) for...
Monday, August 21, 2017
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) is to roll out a programme dubbed “Operation get off Street now for better Life” to empower kayayei, hawkers and beggars for better life. The Ministry would be providing them with basic...
Monday, August 7, 2017
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has launched a comprehensive project to address the rising number of children, persons with disability as well as young adults living their daily lives on Ghana’s streets. The project dubbed ‘...
Monday, July 24, 2017
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, would from July 31, begin the disbursement of the 49th cycle of payment to beneficiaries of the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Programme. The LEAP Programme, which was introduced in...