President John Mahama’s declaration that 800 MegaWatts of Power has been added to the country’s generation mix has been challenged by energy policy-think tank, African Center for Energy Policy (ACEP). ACEP has put the figure at 580megawatts. Sounding triumphant, President John Mahama declared that after lots of hard work “we have achieved the fastest mobilisation…
The 2016 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo had paid a visit to the site of the founder and leader of the Kristo Asafo Mission of Ghana, Apostle Ing. Dr. Kwadwo Safo Kantanka, also known as African Star, at Gomoa-Mpota in the Central Region of Ghana. The 2016…
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) has warned the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to stop using its slogan “Forward Ever, Backward Never”. Speaking to Kasapa FM’s Maame Broni, the General Secretary of the CPP Nii Armah Akomfrah said his party has officially written to the NDC seeking for answers and warning them to desist from…
The National Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress(NDC), Kofi Adams has said the NPP leader Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s take on the State of the Nation Address looked gloomy to him because he confused the country with the mess happening in his party. Nana Addo Monday delivering his version of what the NPP says is…
Participatory Development Associates (PDA) is a social development and consultancy organization in Ghana that supports development processes at community, district, national, regional, and institutional levels towards creating a fairer world where all citizens can reach their full potential. PDA achieves this through empowerment, service delivery, capacity building, and research in communities and with organizations to…
Polling booths have opened in the UK for US expats wishing to vote for a Democratic presidential candidate. The organisation Democrats Abroad has opened stations in Oxford, Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and St Andrews on so-called Super Tuesday. Democrats Abroad is treated as a state and will send a similar quantity of delegates to the Democrat…
Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not want consumers to know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obscuring the facts of the health effects of smoking. This search led him to create a word for the study of deliberate propagation of ignorance: agnotology. Agnotology is the study of wilful acts…
Dunning and Proctor also warn that the wilful spread of ignorance is rampant throughout the US presidential primaries on both sides of the political spectrum. “Donald Trump is the obvious current example in the US, suggesting easy solutions to followers that are either unworkable or unconstitutional,” says Dunning. So while agnotology may have had its…
PDA was contracted by the UNHCR Ghana Office to undertake a comprehensive assessment in Krisan Camp. The study aimed to profile the socio-economic conditions of refugees, assess the protection risks they face, and evaluate livelihood options that minimize these risks. Using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, the research provided nuanced insights into how refugees acquire livelihood assets and the risks associated with pursuing normal livelihood options.
