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Introduction Participatory Development Associates, in conjunction with the Department of Children under the…
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The PDA child abuse tracker continues to record cases of child abuse in Ghana. In…
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Participatory Development Associates (PDA), in partnership with Beyond Beans and SOCAM 5C, are…
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In the second quarter of 2021, the PDA Child Abuse Tracker recorded a…
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The PDA child abuse tracker continues to record cases of child abuse in…
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Evidence-Based Programming – Updates from the Research Evidence-informed programming is ever becoming important…
On 28th and 29th October 2020, PDA hosted a 2-day dialogue on the…
The worrying trend of child abuse in Ghana continues to dent the country’s…
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In 2003, I got the opportunity to teach in a junior high school…
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On Monday, February 19, 2018 when this column will be published, the…
Introduction Ghana’s Agriculture has been subsistence since independence and basically depends on the…
President Akufo-Addo will Monday morning mediate the political impasse between the Togolese President…
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In November 2013, Ghana received a yellow card from the European Union (EU)…
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It has taken a while to establish the trend but in the silver…
Ghana is now 60 and attained its own retirement age on March 6,…
The Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS), Professor Gabriel Ayum…
The Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), in partnership with…
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A measles and malnutrition crisis has killed at least 72 people, mostly children,…
We, participants at the Multi-stakeholder Anti-Corruption Strategic Meeting on the Right to Information…
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Farmers at Asuature in the Shai Osuduku District of the Greater Accra Region,…
Former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has become the first woman to win…
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Rural women farmers till the lands and plant seeds to feed nations.…
The term special needs covers a wild spectrum of disabilities such as…
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Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), an NGO, has underscored the need…
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo today delivered his second State of the Nation…
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Mark Ritchie, former Minnesota Secretary of State and former president of the Minneapolis-based…
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I trust this finds you very well. I have decided to use this…
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The objective of Africa’s development has been seriously undermined by tribalism, which provides…
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I was born in 1957, the same year China purged more than 300,000…
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Very often, we hear cases of child abuse which includes, emotional abuse, physical…
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has called on government to address…
There is the need to balance the debate around whether the country should…
Corruption is a major contributor to Africa’s stunted development. By corroding and weakening…
All too often girls in countries across sub-Saharan Africa can be married off…
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It was 2008 in the Gaza Strip. When winter arrived, so did the…
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Governments around the world are increasingly shutting down internet access in an apparent…
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Peasant farmers have called on Parliament to undertake proper consultation before passing the…
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has launched the 70th-anniversary celebration of the…
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged the 17 member states of…
In the light of the continuous herdsmen crisis in Benue and its…
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uided Bouchamaoui, the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Laureate, has warned that Africa’s growing…
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The new African Union chairperson, Paul Kagame, has said that ‘Free Movement’…
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Two fellowships, funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and GSK, respectively,…
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