Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of educational exclusion among all other regions of the world, with about 21% of primary school age children being denied access to education (UNESCO, 2018). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) estimates that of the 63 million out of school children of the primary school age globally, 34 million (54%)…
‘I Am Aware’ is a social accountability project implemented by the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and funded by the Hewlett Foundation. The objective is to ‘empower citizens and duty bearers by providing free, up-to date, user-friendly and accessible information on the state of public goods and services, to strengthen the demand and supply…
Young entrepreneurs who initiate their start-ups are met with myriad of setbacks, the most prominent being access to affordable credit/finance. These challenges point to the need for innovative approaches to equip young people with the requisite skills and provide support for youth-led enterprises to grow. Additionally, there is a need to facilitate access to affordable…
The Second Annual Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Child Protection was held at the British Council Auditorium in Accra on 27th November 2018, as part of Participatory Development Associates’ (PDA) strategic themes for 2016-2021. The purpose of the workshop was to provide an environment to share and discuss preliminary findings of a draft Report on the…
The Integrated Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA) with Gender Action and Learning Systems (VSLA/GALS) project is a financial inclusion and gender empowerment scheme that aims to build the financial, economic and social capacities of over 500 cocoa farmers in the Ashanti Region through self-governed savings groups.The project, which is being implemented by Participatory Development…
The MVP was first piloted in Kenya and Ethiopia, and in 2006 was launched at scale. In 2012, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) funded US$11 million into an MVP in Northern Ghana that ran until December 2016. The project targeted a cluster of communities of up to 26,500 people in the West Mamprusi,…
Millions of children across the globe are prone to a compendium of abuses, ranging from physical, emotional and verbal to sexual abuses1. The vulnerability of children is particularly dire in the developing world where welfare institutions are generally weak, and state machineries struggle to address the plights of the vulnerable. 2 While child related vulnerabilities…
As part of PDA’s objective to advocate for the protection of children in Ghana, the organization has developed an online platform that tracks cases of child abuse published in the newspapers and prominent online portals. The platform monitors progress on abuse cases and advocates for further intervention where necessary.
Recent reports from research findings stress that the social and economic wellbeing of the average Ghanaian child is dire. It is estimated that poverty affects more children than it affects adults in Ghana. Projections by UNICEF indicate that almost 3 out of every 10 children in Ghana are living in poverty. A considerable number of…