Assisi – 60 years of empowering the girl-child in Northern Ghana

In the late 1950s, a group of farsighted individuals led by Bishop Gabriel Champagne through the instrumentality of the Late Cardinal Peter Porekuu Dery visualized an institution meant to educate the girl-child in the northern part of Ghana to be well equipped in order to contribute to the socio-economic development of a country that had […]

ECA, AUC, AfDB launch the agric and food security joint thematic working group in Abidjan

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), under the auspices of the Joint Secretariat Support Office (JSSO), launched the agriculture and food security joint Thematic Working Group (TWG) on the margins of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa holding in Abidjan, Cote […]

Absence of dedicated funding for sanitation affects ODF performance in Wa Municipality

The lack of dedicated funding for environmental health and sanitation activities has been mentioned as the major factor for the Wa Municipality’s consistent poor performance on the Regional ODF League Table. Another key factor is the lack of commitment from political leadership at the Assembly. The Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH) Advocacy and Policy Officer […]