PDA has held a World Climate event in Accra as part of the World Climate Week. The event which took place on Thursday 13th October brought together over 30 students from three tertiary institution to partake in the event. The World Climate event is a simplified international climate change negotiations meeting. Each participant played the…
Participatory Development Associates has held its first climate change workshop at the University of Ghana, Legon for tertiary students as part of its Change4Climate program in partnership with Climate Interactive. The event was attended by over 50 youth from selected tertiary institutions in Accra namely the Accra Technical University, Ghana Institute of Journalism and the…
The inaugural Africa Summit on Women and Girls in Technology sponsored by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) and the World Wide Web Foundation took place on the 13-14th September, 2016 at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Accra. The summit brought together a wealth of human capital from over twenty-eight different countries with various areas of…
The Draper Hills Summer Fellowship on Democracy and Development Program which was launched in 2005, is hosted annually at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Mrs. Glowen Kyei-Mensah, the Managing Director of Participatory Development Associates (PDA), was among the over-25 mid-career practitioners in law, politics, government, private enterprise, civil society,…
The first Youth Forward biannual meeting in Ghana was held on June 7th, 2016, at the Fiesta Royale Hotel. Youth Forward, an initiative conducted in partnership with the MasterCard Foundation, Overseas Development Institute, Solidaridad, and some other organizations, aims to build the capacity of youth especially in Ghana and Uganda to get jobs and/or grow…
The Youth Inclusive Entrepreneurial Development Initiative for Employment (YIEDIE) held a summit on Youth in Construction on August 10, 2016. Attended by over 350 frontliners in the construction sector, stakeholders from public, private and non-governmental organizations who are working specially with youth or the construction industry, as well as representatives from a slew of media…