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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...

Ghana’s cities must be robust and governance friendly

Ghana’s cities must be robust and governance friendly

“Young men and women form a group and decide to live in the slums where no one can control their lives. Through our work, I have come across many who come from good homes but have decided to live in a slum so that the family will not control their chosen lifestyles....

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...