As part of the celebration of World AIDS Day in December 2015, PDA staff interviewed Mr. Brandford Yeboah, a living testimony of how a person living with HIV (PLHIV) can face and overcome the threats of the disease. He has lived with HIV for 24 years, even though he has only been on anti-retroviral drugs…
The importance of cassava in Ghana cannot be denied. Apart from being the main ingredient of daily staple food enjoyed in many Ghanaian households – fufu, akple, to some extent gari, Cassava has undoubtedly proven itself to be a resilient and food security crop, though regarded by many to be a reserve crop for the…
The global plastics industry presents a hydra-headed environmental challenge that has remained staunchly established despite insistent appeals from environmentalist and environmentally-concerned organizations over decades. Long accepted as a necessary evil, more plastic has been produced in just the past ten years than was produced during the whole of the last century (Plastic Oceans, 2016), and…
The creation of a safe habitable society is of absolute relevance to the survival of children. And with the global 2030 agenda of building a society that leaves no one behind, it is important to work towards removing all forms of circumstantial factors that aggravate children’s vulnerability. To be able to effectively tackle the unaddressed…
Youth Forward focuses on economically disadvantaged young people, aged 15-24, living in Ghana and Uganda who are on a low income (living on less than $2 a day), out of school, unemployed or underemployed, and moving through a transition point in their life. Ghana has achieved significant economic growth and development since its transition to…
A presentation on the PIALA impact assessment of the RTIMP Ghana given by Glowen Kyei-Mensah, Managing Director of PDA, together with Adinda Van Hemelrijck, Consultant to IFAD, at a meeting of the UK Evaluation Society in London on May 14, 2015.
I am going to vote NO to political parties sponsoring candidates for elections at the local government level in Ghana. This is because there is an urgent need for constitutional, legislative and administrative reforms in the governance architecture of the country. Such reforms are necessary to strengthen the checks and balances that will make the…