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Impact Study of Root Capital’s Agricultural Enterprises that link Smallholder Farmers to Market in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire

May 14, 2017

Project Name: Impact Study of Root Capital’s Agricultural Enterprises that link Smallholder Farmers to Market in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire (Root Capital Inc.) Project Period: April 2017 – December 2020 The study is mainly quantitative, and uses the experimental difference-in-difference framework to design and assess impact of Root Capital’s financial support for smallholder farmers. More…

Ebola: WHO declares outbreak in DR Congo

May 12, 2017

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At least one person has died after contracting the virus in the country’s north-east, the WHO says. The Congolese health ministry had notified the WHO of a “lab-confirmed case” of Ebola, it added on Twitter. More than 11,000 people died in the…

Heap of polythenes in Bawku

April 24, 2017

It is so visible when one enters the community. Sanitation is a general attitudinal problem that need to be tackled head-on.

One in five people in cities worldwide live in areas with no safe toilet

November 21, 2016

Close to one in five people living in towns, cities and megacities across the world do not have access to a safe, basic toilet, according to WaterAid. Some 600 million urban dwellers globally rely on a humiliating and haphazard array of the only services available to them in slums: filthy and crowded communal toilets, or…

COP22: “Global finance mechanisms must pay for Africa’s rising climate bill,” Adesina tells Marrakech Conference

November 21, 2016

Global finance mechanisms such as the Green Climate Fund and the Global Environmental Facility must support Africa to adapt to climate change and stop the displacement of public spending caused by climate change, African Development Bank Group President, Akinwumi Adesina, told the United Nations climate conference, which ended on November 18. “Words of comfort are…

Humanitarian Crisis Worsening as Famine Looms

November 18, 2016

U.N. aid agencies warn the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, already one of the biggest in the world, is getting worse as famine looms and growing numbers of refugees flee to neighboring countries. The World Food Program reports a 38-truck convoy, carrying food for about one month, arrived in the South Sudanese town of Yei…